Indian bhajis are a popular snack or side dish in UK Indian restaurants…deep fried onions in a batter made of chick pea flour with various spices usually including […]
Food
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113 veggies in the first week of January!
The ingredients list for last night’s extreme green pasta sauce ended at 57 (all collected inside in the living areas or the cellar stores), which together with Sunday’s […]
Food / Root crops
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Skirret-chufa stir-fry
Tonight’s dinner, skirret-chufa stir-fry. Post Views: 84
Cellar vegetables / Food
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Home grown quinoa patties
A long way from home, I composed these Malvik grown quinoa patties tonight and they were pretty damned good! I boiled the quinoa, mixed with fried leek, garlic, chili, […]
Drying / Food / Fruit
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First load of wood dried apples
My first (of many) loads of apples drying over the wood stove! I’m 100% self-sufficient in fruit and never buy bananas, oranges etc. and don’t use a freezer. […]
Drying / Food
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Broad beans, peas and quinoa
Kitchen cupboard with broad beans, peas and quinoa.. Post Views: 103
Fermentation / Food
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24 hour oat bread…
You maybe remember I posted about the real Danish rye bread I made a couple of weeks back? See here http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=835 I wondered what the bread would be […]
Bulbs / Cellar vegetables / Food / Fungi / Tubers
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Lily-chufa-parsley stir fry
Tonight’s dinner was a lily – chufa – parsley stir-fry (chinese style) with buckwheat noodles… Lily = bulbs of Lilium martagon (Martagon lily), an important forest garden source […]
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Curry on the stove
I like to cook on the wood burning stove in winter…here’s a scene from the preparation of last night’s home grown veggie curry with Basella, Swiss chard, the […]
Food
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24 hour Danish Rye Bread
I’ve just taken my first Danish Day Rye Bread out of the oven…thanks to Søren Holt for the tip on baking the bread for 24 hours at 70C!! […]
Food / Invasive plants
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Invasive Moonglow Quiche
As I suggested earlier today, veggie quiche would be tonight’s dinner (as two years ago on this day) now that I’m back here in Malvik :) With cold […]
Anredera cordifolia / Food / Root crops / Vegetarian
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3 Basellaceae for Xmas dinner
For Xmas dinner 2007, I made nut roast with roast vegetables including two members of the Basellaceae family (known as the Madeira vine family). It contains the following […]
Chili / Climbers / Food
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Basella stir-fry
Harvested some of my bedside Basella greens tonight for a stir-fry with garlic, chili, chicory, parsley, dried chantarelle, broad beans and perilla…. served with soba (organic buckwheat noodles). […]
Food / Onions / Perennial vegetables / Root crops / walkabout onion / weeds
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A green medley pasta sauce for dinner!
Mostly annuals and biannuals tonight, but still 1/3 of the 41 ingredients are perennials! Post Views: 130
Food / Salad
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The Extreme Salad Man at 15!
Last week 15 years ago, the extreme salad man was created…and he is upset that Facebook completely missed this event…so let’s make up for it in this thread, […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals / Food / Perennial vegetables
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“Have you eaten a flower”
Some pictures from the Grennessminde (Copenhagen) “Have you eaten a flower” event on Saturday 13th August 2016. Thanks for inviting me :) Post Views: 142
Food
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Barl-ryotto
Last night’s dinner: risotto made with rye and barley grain instead of rice with wild and cultivated vegetables and wild fungi: Parsley, coriander, golpar (Heracleum maximum seed spice), […]
Edible flowers / Food / Perennial vegetables / Salad
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Naturplanteskolen Malvik salad
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Food / Fungi / Perennial vegetables / Spice
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Soba with stir-fried Golpared veggies
I made soba with stir-fried golpared veggies and wild fungi for tonight’s dinner. Soba is buckwheat noodles. Golpar is the Turkish spice usually made from the ground seed […]
Food
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Nodding onion flower green pasta sauce
To celebrate the arrival of my daughter Hazel and helpers Charlotte and Maj-Britt from Denmark, I knocked up this green pasta sauce which, from memory, contained common sow […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Pakora hasn’t met this selection of veggies before!
I gave myself a little treat this week and made Indian pakora! Pakora are basically fried vegetable fritters, often sold as a starter in Indian restaurants. The vegetables […]
Ferns / Food
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Ostrich Fern pie
Ostrich fern pie was the culinary high this week…made with cooked ostrich fern, Allium scorodoprasum, garlic, chili and standard quiche ingredients and a 100% whole grain barley / rye […]
Food / Onions / Ornamentals / Perennials / Pesto
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A 230 onion pesto :)
A pesto with 230 different onions, served at lunch on Saturday (Allium) (grown and collected by me and prepared by Veronica and Rita) ;) Why? Because we could…. […]
Food / Perennials
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Garden forage 9th April 2015
After 3 weeks abstinence, it’s fantastic to be back foraging my garden :) Tonight’s greens… and browns…and reds: Heracleum sibiricum, Alliaria petiolata, Hablitzia, Allium nutans, Taraxacum officinale “Vert de […]