Heavy ground elder bread

I’ve never seen real bread for sale, you can tell from the weight. The loaves I made yesterday weighted in at over 1.5kg! This sourdough was made from a selection of whole grain organic flours (yesterday’s pizza dough was taken from the proving dough) including: coarse rye, emmer, barley, coarse spelt, svedjerug and a few … Continue reading Heavy ground elder bread

Incredible “Incredible Wild Edibles” by Sam Thayer

Sam Thayer is without doubt my favourite foraging author and his new book Incredible Wild Edibles does nothing to change that! It’s been 7 years since his book “Nature’s Garden” and 11 since his debut, Forager’s Garden. All his books are thoroughly researched and I love his plant descriptions, which are detailed, thoughtful and accurate … Continue reading Incredible “Incredible Wild Edibles” by Sam Thayer

2nd May Abundance

The change from winter to spring abundance happens very quickly…here’s last nights haul for a very green pasta sauce (it took about 30 mins from garden to table, fast slow food), including the following stars of spring: Hablitzia Allium nutans Allium sativum (garlic) Rumex acetosa (sorrel) Campanula latifolia (giant bellflower) Aegopodium (ground elder) Alliaria (hedge … Continue reading 2nd May Abundance

The March 2017 Extreme Salads: Ingredients and preparation!

I had already agreed in the autumn to take part in the culinary program of this year’s Kosmorama Film Festival in Trondheim in collaboration with the leading restaurant Credo. I therefore made my plans to make a diversity salad back then by moving roots and plants of perennials, that I could force early to be … Continue reading The March 2017 Extreme Salads: Ingredients and preparation!

Sonchus “Custard in Greens”

Those that follow this blog will know that I consider common sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) to be a super weed in the sense of its importance as a food and (protective) medicine plant for Homo sapiens. Inspired by the Maori tradition of “cultivating” … or tolerating this weed on their vegetable plots due to its … Continue reading Sonchus “Custard in Greens”

An interesting Barlotto!

Guaranteed nobody else is eating this tonight, barlotto (barley risotto) with burdock root and shoots, scorzonera roots and shoot, Allium cernuum (Nodding onion) shoots (forced in the living room) flavoured with caraway, salt, pepper and vietnamese coriander with crushed tomatoes and smoked mackerel….Shame you weren’t here, this will last me 3 days!

Frederik Christian Schübeler, the grandfather of the Norwegian seed savers

(Translated  from this Norwegian article:  https://nbl.snl.no/Frederik_Sch%C3%BCbeler) See also Schübeler on Andean root crops here: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=3203 and Schübeler on Hablitzia here: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=3210 Frederik Christian “Fritz” Schübeler (1815-1892) was professor of botany and manager of the university’s botanical garden at Toyen in Christiania (Oslo) from 1866-92. Not without reason he has been called father of Norwegian horticultural and no doubt … Continue reading Frederik Christian Schübeler, the grandfather of the Norwegian seed savers