Here’s yesterday’s fresh produce* from the garden….the joy of perennial vegetables! However, snow overnight will make harvest more difficult the next few days! Here’s today’s list:Aegopodium podograria (ground […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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More from the garden
We seem to be at least a month ahead of normal this year. I don’t normally see new shoots of ground elder (Aegopodium) until the middle of April […]
Food / Perennial vegetable shoots
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Catch of the day!
Yesterday’s harvest mostly from the garden (blanched dandelions and horseradish from the cellar):Ground elder (skvallerkål)Lesser celandine (vårkål)Perennial kale (flerårige kål)Seombadi (Dystaenia takesimana)Dandelion (løvetann)Allium x proliferum (walking onion / […]
Food / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Slowly Approaching the time of Plenty: Spring!
Tonight’s sourdough pizza greens, all harvested outside after most of the snow disappeared during the day. From the top and clockwise; Ficaria verna (lesser celandine / vårkål), Allium […]
Food / Perennial vegetable shoots / Winter vegetables
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Dennis’ veggies
As Storm Dennis brought similar temperatures to southern England to Malvik, this was today’s harvest from the garden….more like mid-April. These were used in a stew: Alliaria petiolata […]
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Dandelion-leek pizza
Many years ago, I ordered a delicious chicory pizza in Venice. Even though I found chicory quite bitter, in a pizza the bitterness was much reduced and it […]
Blanching / Cellar vegetables / Edible flowers / Food / Perennial vegetable shoots / Root crops / Salad
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The winter’s first salad shoot salad
The first winter shoots were harvested from the cellar today. It is almost totally dark in the cellar and currently about +6C. The blanched shoots in the picture […]
Food / Fungi / Invasive plants
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Himalayan Balsam and Albatrellus ovinus pizza
Tonight’s veggie pizza (with part of the bread dough as I’m also baking bread this evening) had some unusual for me ingredients: perennial kales, a mix of oriental […]
Beans / Food
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Runner bean pizza
Runner beans (blomsterbønner) are always ripening at the end of september to early october here before the frost stops them. They made a delicious whole grain rye/barley/oat sourdough […]
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Rapini salad for Andrew
Fellow seed saver and friend Andrew McMillion is staying for a couple of days…giving a seed saving lecture in Trondheim. Andrew is leader of KVANN’s (Norwegian Seed Savers) […]
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Pizza Hemerocallis
Tonight’s pizza ingredients found on a random forage in the garden: 3 different day lily species flower buds, including the first yellow Hemerocallis altissima, H. citrina (in the […]
Food
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Veggie wholegrain pizza with New Zealand Spinach
My daughter asked if we’d like to come and join her and her friend in Napolitana (the village pizza restaurant). We were actually just about to eat pizza […]
Berries / Food / Salad
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Saskatoons and salad
At the weekend at the Permalin Farm summer festival I met an English-German couple Johnny and Anna who were on a long campervan holiday in Norway, doing some […]
Food / Salad
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Salad for Jolien
To celebrate the mother of CSA’s in Norway, Jolien P., visiting Malvik for the first time, tonight’s multi-species salad was created… Post Views: 114
Climbers / Food / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Habeetsia burgers
Habeetsia burgers or Bloody Habbyburgers? Cooked and ground beetroots mixed with 100% wholegrain barley and rye flour, eggs and cooked Hablitzia leaves and Johannes’ shallots (Allium x cornutum), […]
Edimentals / Food / Salad
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The extreme salad collection
A collection of pictures of my extreme salads from the last 20 years can be seen in the gallery below! 8th July 2019: The first 10! To be […]
Food / Herbs / Onions / weeds
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Sonchus and Basil Pesto
Common sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) is now in season in my garden another plant categorised by most as a weed, but for me one of the most important […]
Annuals / Food
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Shungiku Soba
I have a special fascination for vegetables that are superstars in one part of the world but hardly known in others and one of those is garland chrysanthemum […]
Annuals / Food / weeds
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Garlic Barley Weedotto!
The last two nights, Barley Garlic Weedotto (or Garlic Weed Barlotto) was on the meny at the Edible Garden! I have a relaxed approach to weeds and weeding […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Perennial pizza
Last night’s pizza, perennials apart from Atriplex hortensis “Rubra”; including sea kale broccolis, perennial kales, Allium nutans, sorrel, Malva moschata, Anise hyssop, nettles etc. Pizza med strandkål […]
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Perennial pizza
Last night’s pizza, perennials apart from Atriplex hortensis “Rubra”; including sea kale broccolis, perennial kales, Allium nutans, sorrel, Malva moschata, Anise hyssop, nettles etc. Pizza med strandkål […]
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Perennial pakoras
This week, we made pakoras from a selection of perennial veggies from the garden (which ones can you spot?) Pakoras are made with chick pea (besan) flour! Looking […]
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East meets west salad
The udo (Aralia cordata) shoots had begun to lift the forcing bucket, so time for the annual udo salad, a variant this year, East meets West salad…the udo […]
Blanching / Food / Perennial vegetables
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Bellflower-chokes / Storklokkeskokker
I’ve previously introduced the gourmet part of the dandelion, the dandichoke! I write in my book: My favourite foraging author “(Samuel Thayer’s) favourite dandelion vegetable is what he […]