….is an annual celebration of garlic, king of the tasty Alliums! First, some pictures from the 2012 event: …and a few pictures from today’s (2017) event: Post Views: […]
Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Geirlauk
Sand leek (rocambole) or Allium scorodoprasum gives bigger yields here than leeks, so it’s not surprising to learn that this perennial onion was probably cultivated by the Vikings […]
Food / Perennials / Root crops / Tubers
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Soba stir-fried cellar vegetables
Last night’s chinese stir-fried vegetables, from cellar and store, served with soba! Now using more tubers than greens… Achira carrot chicory Chili GarlicOca onionperennial kale turnip Ulluco Jerusalem artichoke and winter chantarelle Post Views: 121
Edimentals / Foraging / Leafy greens / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Wild Japanese Katakuri #1
My trip to Japan in early spring 2016 was perfectly timed to witness one of the wonders of the Japanese spring, the mass flowering of katakuri (Erythronium japonicum; Japanese: […]
Food / Root crops
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Skirret-chufa stir-fry
Tonight’s dinner, skirret-chufa stir-fry. Post Views: 91
garlic topsets / Root crops
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Planting Garlic
I finally got the garlic planted today after a week of rain and temperatures up to +10C had melted most of the frost in the soil! Here are […]
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 […]
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 […]
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). […]
Forest Gardening / Garden tour
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Climate Festival garden tours!
Lovely bunch of people on the two tours of my garden today! Forgot to take any pictures during the first tour, so just a couple from the second […]
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), […]
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 […]
Perennials
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Perennial veggie quiche 2014
Almost 2 years ago on 29th April 2014, this quiche features perennial vegetables, starring Hablitzia / Stjernemelde, Allium victorialis / Seiersløk, Ground Elder / Skvallerkål, Stinging Nettle / Brennesle, […]
Sprouts
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Chicoriche
Chicories continue to grow in the cellar which is totally dark and about +4C… made into a chicory quiche, also known as chicoriche ;) Next year I plan […]
Malvik / Onions
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20 Runner Beans is better than nothing!
This is about the total yield of my runner beans this cool summer, but the first garlic (Alexandra) looks promising! Post Views: 109
Dandelions / Leafy greens / Onions / Perennials / Tempura / Tubers
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Perennial vegetable tempura
April 2014 and Yngvil (aka Ms. Saladdy) was helping out in my garden, her practical experience for her education to become a gardener! I’ll let her tell her […]
Annuals / weeds
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More weedo wierdo pesto
More weedo wierdo pesto…this time based on superweed Sonchus oleraceus / common sow thistle / haredylle, basil, garlic, chili and sesame seed.. Post Views: 225