The year’s first multispecies salad made earlier this week on 12th April! The list of plants is below the pictures. The ingredients:Rumex patientia (patience dock / hagesyre)Rumex acetosa […]
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February Hosta-Udo salad
The year’s first taste of Hosta and Udo shoots (dug in the autumn, stored in the cellar and forced in the living room in the dark), used in […]
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Mid-January Salad
In connection with Cathrine Kramer’s (Centre for Genomic Gastronomy) third visit to Malvik from her base in Amsterdam to make an around the year artistic film of The […]
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23rd December H for Hablitzia salad
I made this salad for lunch today (ingredients below the pictures) Ingredients: 2 varieties Oca (Oxalis tuberosa) Turnip (nepe) roots and sproutsCarrot (gulrot)Chicory (sikori) “Rossa di Treviso”Parsley (persille); moved […]
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World Garden November Salad
14th November 2024: Although the World Garden I’ve created at the Væres Venner Community Garden in Trondheim is mostly perennials, I fill up gaps with some annuals and […]
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78th Birthday Party Salad
In connection with my daughter Hazel’s birthday yesterday, she wanted me to make a salad for her and her friends she’d invited for dinner, so no birthday cake, […]
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EXTREME SALAD MAN MAKES 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 […]
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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 […]
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RINGVE OPEN DAY 2024
There were some 1,500 people who came along to Sunday’s Open Day at the Ringve Botanical Garden and as usual KVANN Trøndelag (Norwegian Seed Savers; kvann.no) had a […]
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Pot luck salad
On Sunday 26th May we organized a potluck party in Væres Venners Community Garden in Trondheim for the first time! It was a fantastically successful event in glorious […]
Blanching / Perennial vegetables / Salad
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Hosta and Seri salad
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 […]
Edible flowers / Perennial vegetables / Salad
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Snow onion salad
After yesterday’s video post about the snow onion (Allium humile) I had to make a snow onion lunchtime salad, so here it is; see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mOcQ4aUQVIIngredients below the pictures. […]
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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 […]
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Gunnera-Chinese Yam salad
Delicious Gunnera-Chinese Yam salad with goldenberries (Barbadoslykt), Gunnera tinctoria, Dioscorea polystachya (Chinese yam) “Ichoimo”, carrot, turnip, various tomatoes, nodding onion (prærieløk), chicory (sikori), perennial kale (flerårig kål), Worcesterberries, […]
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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 […]
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A diversity of rat’s tails
I remember years ago ordering seed of a special heirloom heritage radish “rat’s tail” (Raphanus sativus var caudatus) through the Heritage Seed Library in the UK. I remember […]
Art Exhibition / Salad / Winter vegetables
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Unpacking the Edimentals Herbarium
Being the focus of an art installation wasn’t something I ever imagined, but since February an installation has been exhibited at the Trondheim Art Museum Gråmølna based on […]
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February salad
Lunch salad had the following ingredients;From the garden: Allium scorodoprasum / sand leek / bendelløk (shoots)Allium cernuum / nodding onion / prærieløk (bulbs and leaves)Hablitzia tamnoides / Caucasian spinach / […]
Dandelions / Salad
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Start of the 2023 Dandelion season
The first wave of dandelions ready for 2023! We will use them with lunch every day for the rest of the winter! Post Views: 223
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“Over the top” Flowery Whopper Carrot Salad
I was going to post an album of pictures showing off all the late flowers in the garden this record-breaking mild autumn still without any frost, but as […]
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Salad for HGB and HvB
My dad Harald George Barstow (HGB) sadly passed away on 7th June at 97. A few days later on 11th June I’d scheduled a long-awaited visit from my […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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20 years of Extreme Salads
20 years ago on 19th August 2001, the Extreme Salad (Man) was born when I made my first (of two) world record salads with 363 different plants and […]