Back from my two week stay in England for my dad’s funeral (he was 97 and still growing leeks from seed; I planted them posthumously!) and being with […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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42 Pakora veggies
Here are this week’s largely perennial veggies made into a delicious and varied 42 variety pakora!Picture 1 below (Roughly from left to right): Saxifraga pensylvanica (swamp saxifrage); Malva […]
Blanching / Food / Perennial vegetables
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St. George’s, ramsons and red-leaved dandelion pasta with Hosta icicles
Earlier this week with little time to make dinner this was the unlikely result: St. George’s, ramsons and red-leaved dandelion leftover pasta with Hosta icicles in Japanese dip. Earlier […]
Birds
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Female pied flycatcher
There’s a pair of pied flycatchers (svarthvit fluesnapper) in the garden this year. I first heard the male singing on 13th and on the 22th I made this […]
Food / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Bitter baccalao: roots and greens
No, I’m not vegan and have never been, I’ve been lactovegetarian with the occasional wild fish over 40 years. We always have some Norwegian dried cod (baccalao) at […]
Blanching / Food / Perennial vegetable shoots
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Wietse’s Onion Soup with Udos, Hosta, Ostrich Ferns, Sea Kale and Ramsons
The best of spring in one sitting. In celebration of the country Norway, we yesterday (17th May) harvested a small selection of the best blanched perennial vegetables (apart […]
Food / Invasive plants / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Some odds and ends this week in Malvik
The best of vegetables ready to harvest this week: blanched sea kale (Crambe maritima), blanched lovage (Levisticum officinale) and nettles (Urtica dioica)! Delicious. IT’S DANDINOODLE TIME HERE IN […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Around the World in 80 Mac-Cheese
Many thanks to all who sent birthday wishes as I transitioned to become a bonafide pensioner As usual, my celebration dinner was a green macaroni cheese (https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?s=macaroni), this […]
Perennial vegetable shoots
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Spring wouldn’t be spring without Hablitzia
I’m in Habby Blitz (bliss) once again and Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach / Stjernemelde / Nordens spinat) is the most important vegetable once again. With some 30 plants […]
Cellar vegetables / Winter vegetables
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Cellar and Garden Greens: 6th April 2022
The greens that went into last night’s wholegrain spelt quiche are listed below the picture!CELLAR: Dystaenia takesimana shoots; Forced hogweed (bjørnekjeks) shoots (Heracleum spp.); Forced Taraxacum (dandelion / […]
Onions / Snow
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Snow onions
Various Allium species are the hardiest of edible plants either staying green all winter (e.g., Allium cernuum and Allium carinatum) or sprouting very early and able to withstand […]
Food
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March soba greens
Today it reached an unusually warm 16C here which encouraged the first bumble bees and honey bees out! The picture shows the greens (and whites) used in tonight’s […]
Perennial vegetable shoots / Perennial vegetables
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Record warmth and record early shoots
With record temperatures recorded in this area at the moment after a mild winter when all the cold spells coincided with good snow cover means that the soil […]
Salad
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Winter salad record: 5 years after
5 years ago this week, I made a salad with 140 ingredients all harvested locally without using any additional energy than is available in my house and cellar […]
Birds
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How do they do it?
It’s always a surprise when I’m woken to the song of a wren (gjerdesmett) in the garden at this time of year. This is not only the second […]
Perennial vegetables / Propagation
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Myoga shoots and propagation
I wrote about harvesting and eating myoga (Japanese ginger / Zingiber mioga) here in Malvik for the first time in 2020 here: https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=26293 It was grown in a […]
Edible flowers / Salad
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The first 2022 outside salad
Sorry for the silence here on the Edimentals blog. I’ve been busy preparing to produce signs and plant labels for the Allium garden and the World Garden as […]
Sun
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Actual sunyear rise today
…and today, the sun actually rose (visibly) for the first time this year. Here’s a series taken between 9:45 and 11:10. It’s now (11:40) set again behind the […]
Food / Onions
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Harvesting midwinter nodding onions
Allium cernuum (nodding onion / prærieløk) is hardy more or less anywhere people live and stays green all winter here. It’s been mild with snow coming and going […]
Sun
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The sun is back
I noticed this morning sun shadows on the wall behind my back in the living room! YES, the sun is back. A whole week of cloudy weather after […]
Birds / weather
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January storms
This January has been a stormy month here in this area with a series of severe weather systems moving past, one (Gyda) with a name, resulting in many […]
Birds
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New House Sparrow record
In Norway, the house sparrow (gråspurv) has been categorised as Near threatened (NT), i.e., close to being endangered in the near future. This is probably a result of […]
Birds
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Stock Dove: A new species for the garden
A new bird species for the garden this morning, a stock dove (skogdue) in the company of a woodpigeon? Stock doves are very rare breeders in my area, […]
Birds
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A Charm of Goldfinches
With heavy wet snow overnight weighing down all the plants in the garden together with plummeting air temperature, a flock of goldfinches (stillits) (collectively known as a Charm) […]