A very mild December here and my oldest now 23 year old Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde) is very “habby” and has responded well with new shoots […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Late June Ryotto
On 30th June 2025, I made ryotto with various perennial vegetables available in the garden. The ryotto is stir-fried veg mixed with wholegrain organic rye with chili and […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Green catch of the day!
Today’s veg! Names below the pictures (mostly top shoots and scapes).Plants:Heracleum flower shoots (cow parsley / bjørnekjeks)Urtica dioica (stinging nettle / brennesle)Cryptotaenia japonica “Atropurpurea” (purple mitsuba)Allium fistulosum (Welsh […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Seasonal leafy greens
For a quick Mediterranean diet inspired scrambled egg, aka scrambled greens, these were the diversity of perennial greens I could quickly forage in my garden in about 5 […]
Food / Fungi
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St. George’s Mushrooms and Sand Leek
Two gourmet ingredients (and many more) for tonight’s green pasta sauce are just doing their own thing in my edible garden with little interference from me, apart from […]
Food
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A 70 permaveggie Fus-Cheese!
To celebrate that the life-timer clicked over from 69 to 70 yesterday, the Barstow household’s tradition of making an equi-age permaveggie diversity MacCheese for dinner was followed once […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Scrambled greens
It started off as scrambled eggs but ended as scrambled “perennial” greens: The ingredients:Allium ursinum (ramsons /ramsløk)Allium sativum (garlic /hvitløk); shoots and bulbsHeracleum sp. (hogweed / bjørnekjeks); 2 […]
Food / Winter protection / Winter vegetables
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End of February Greens
Growing winter vegetables is easy and sustainable without the use of plastics, fleeces, expensive greenhouses and energy by exploiting the “talents” of perennial and biennial plants that are […]
Food
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Dandy Lion Quiche
Happy Dandy Lions forced in the living room, glad to have been invited into the warmth. Little do they know though that I had a cruel plan to […]
Food / Salad
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A conventional salad!
I didn’t know if I could make a salad just with ingredients you can buy in the supermarket (but all home grown of course!), but last week I […]
Food
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Sochan and Moly scrambled egg Meditteranean style
Lunch today was inspired by the Mediterranean diet – simple with masses of greens, but with an international twist: Cherokee spinach (top shoots of sochan – Rudbeckia laciniata / […]
Food
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Saint John’s Eve Felafels
Yesterday was St. John’s Eve and many Norwegians (and other Scandinavians) celebrated what is known here as Sankthans or Jonsok with communal bonfires, the big midsummer celebration. Sankt […]
Food
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Perennial Pakora day
On Wednesday (12th June 2024) we made indian pakora with a diversity of perennial veg straight from the garden, served with home grown cilantro raita (yogurt). I usually […]
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St George’s Asparagus stir-fry
The St. George’s mushrooms (vårfagerhatt) come up every year under the old birch tree next to my sitting place in the garden. They weren’t really growing much more […]
Food / Nettles / Perennial vegetables
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Soba perennial veg stir-fry
This week’s perennial veg stir-fry with soba (buckwheat noodles), Japanese style contained the following (roughly left to right in the picture):Nettles / stornesle (Urtica dioica)Burdock / storborre roots […]
Food / Salad
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Lunchtime 2nd May Salad
We’re experiencing a bit of a heat wave here at the moment with high pressure, clear skies and temperatures close to 20C. The growth of my perennial veg […]
Food / Onions
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MAC 69 ONION CHEESE
Thanks everyone for all the birthday greetings! I spent my 69th by visiting the Onion Garden Chicago that I look after at the Ringve Botanical Garden, worked for […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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The Full Gap
I used to call it the Hungry Gap (Vårknipen), but transitioning to a large proportion of perennials this is the time I now call the Full Gap! The […]
Food / Pulses
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Runner Bean Falafels
After many years of trying, I managed to get a decent crop of dried runner beans / løpebønner* (Phaseolus coccineus). My own garden is a bit too cold […]
Dandelions / Food
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Dandelion scape, bud and flower omelette
Sorry, but I ceremoniously sacrificed all the dandelion flowers, buds and scapes for a delicious omelette today…and what a wonderful view they had on their last day on […]
Food
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Slow barlotto
Tonight’s dinner was slow (kortreist) barlotto (byggotto) with whole grain Norwegian organic barley with:Mashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum) “Ken Aslet” and “White”Persian shallots (Allium stipitatum)Wapato (Sagittaria latifolia)Carrot / gulrotChicory / […]
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December omelette
Last night’s simple winter omelette with ingredients I had on hand:Wapato tubers (Sagittaria latifolia)Potato “Blue Congo”Swiss chard (mangold)Shallots “Finland” (an old Finnish / Norwegian variety of sjalott)Barberry (vill […]
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20 year anniversary extreme pizza!
Around 25 years ago I started reading scientific papers written by various ethnobotanists on the back of the discovery of the traditional Mediterranean diet – people in mountain […]
Food
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Green pasta
This is what I had for dinner last night: a Mediterranean-diet style green (wholegrain spelt) pasta dish with wild fungi, annual greens, broad beans, weeds, golpar, chili and […]
Food / Salad
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50 and 20 year celebrations
To celebrate our good friends’ Jurgen Wegter and Ingvild Haga’s 50th birthdays together with Meg’s 50-year anniversary of arriving in Europe for the first time (in Southampton near […]