The Less than Extreme Salad Man has been in action with the year’s multi-species salad! A few hours before the polar low storm hit and snow covered the greens, I did a forage around the garden, finding about 15 species, mostly onions, but there were fresh dandelions, perennial kales and the first Hablitzia shoots. These were added to a selection of stored vegetables from the cellar, including blanched dandelion and chicory shoots which had grown in the above average temperatures. About 30 different veggies!
Category Archives: Winter shoots
Long Horseradish root
We’re nearing the end of a very mild period with no frost in the ground, so I’ve been doing a lot of unseasonal work in the garden. Yesterday, I dug over the horseradish (pepperot) bed and excavated this one root that was trying to escape into a neighbouring area as carefully as I could!
I cut off the top with a bit of root for forcing the delicious young shoots and the root will be ground!
Webinar on winter perennial vegetables!
January vegetables from cellar and window sills
Kosmorama/ Credo diversity dinner #1
Today in the garden
A few pictures of life returning to the garden…
Food diversity events in Trondheim next week!
I was very pleased earlier in the winter to be asked to take part in the Trondheim Kosmorama Film Festival’s culinary programme, set up around the showing of two food related films:
Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food http://kosmorama.no/program/gourmet-cinema-in-defense-of-food and NOMA – My Perfect Storm http://kosmorama.no/program/gourmet-cinema-noma-my-perfect-storm
In connection with both films I am collaborating with Trondheim’s leading restaurant Credo in putting together the most diverse locally-sourced winter food ever in Norway, if not the world…. ;)
After the Michael Pollan film on Thursday 9th March, participants will be able to sample one of my multi-species edimental dishes and other snacks, see a cavalcade of pictures from over 50 of my fantasy salads and other multi-species dishes and there will also be a Food Talk with myself, the film’s producer Michael Schwartz and Credo’s Heidi Bjerkan and local farmer and supplier of gourmet raw ingredients Carl Erik Nielsen Østlund! As Pollan concludes, Eat Food, Not too Much, Mostly (a diversity of) Plants!
After the NOMA film on the day before (Wednesday 8th March), guests can purchase tickets to a dinner at Credo or Jossa Mat og Drikke (upstairs at Credo). The Extreme Salad Man (that’s me!) will be at the Credo dinner and will inform the guests about some of the weird and wonderful veggies from Trøndelag to be included in this 10-12 dish meal. A multi-species dish will also be served at Credo!
Please join us for one or both of these two unique film-food diversity events!
Buy tickets here:
https://kosmoramafilmfest.hoopla.no/sales/kulinarisk-jossa (Noma)
https://kosmoramafilmfest.hoopla.no/sales/kulinarisk-in-defense-of-food (In Defence of Food)
See also Credo’s blog about the Kosmorama culinary events here:
http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=02c6cd43bc54fa6b9821680b9&id=3881be9ef6
All ingredients in my multi-species dishes apart from a simple dressing will be freshly harvested either outside in the garden, from my cold cellar or from living rooms in the house without additional heat, lights nor freezer (no greenhouse). My previous winter diversity records can be seen by following the links below! How many will it be this time? ;)
30th March 2014 (81) Salad http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=4064
February 2015 (55) Salad http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=815
January 2017 (56) Salad http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=9559
January 2017 (57) Green pasta sauce http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=9577
NB! TRONDHEIM and Trøndelag is the best place anywhere to grow tasty veggidiversity!
Hablitzia excavation
Udo roots for forcing
Inspired by my visit in the spring to Tokyo’s underground blanching of Udo (Aralia cordata), see link below, I dug up a couple of roots that I will force inside the house in late winter :) I will keep them cold in the cellar and then move them into probably my living room to force in February!