I’ve been making a little blanched Hosta salad for lunch this week. Just cover your plant before the shoots appear in spring, cut and serve with a Japanese […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Japanese Sansai in March
Almost exactly 5 years ago this week I was on a study tour to Japan to look at Sansai production. I’m doing a webinar talk about the trip […]
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Sprouts in the cellar
A much warmer winter than normal and I returned home to well developed blanched dandelion shoots in the cellar together with horseradish shoots and the sweet cicely shoots […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The last roots
The last roots I harvest in the autumn are perennial vegetables for eating in the winter. I usually do this as late as possible and some years harvestng […]
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Dandelion harvest
Dandelions are one of my favourite winter perennial vegetables. During the summer, wild dandelions sow themselves on my cultivated beds….one of the advantages of having too much open […]
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Hosta icicles (yuki urui)
The other day I discovered a long suffering Hosta that I’d covered with a bucket in the spring. Surprisingly the blanched shoots were in good condition despite the […]
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Kosmorama/ Credo diversity dinner #1
Last night (8th March 2017) was the first of two events I had been asked to take part in celebrating the diversity of vegetables that our area has […]