Two gourmet ingredients (and many more) for tonight’s green pasta sauce are just doing their own thing in my edible garden with little interference from me, apart from […]
Food
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Sochan and Moly scrambled egg Meditteranean style
Lunch today was inspired by the Mediterranean diet – simple with masses of greens, but with an international twist: Cherokee spinach (top shoots of sochan – Rudbeckia laciniata / […]
Food / Nettles / Perennial vegetables
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Soba perennial veg stir-fry
This week’s perennial veg stir-fry with soba (buckwheat noodles), Japanese style contained the following (roughly left to right in the picture):Nettles / stornesle (Urtica dioica)Burdock / storborre roots […]
Food / Salad
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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 / […]
Food / Perennial vegetables / Root crops
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Bitter baccalao: roots and greens
No, I’m not vegan and have never been, I’ve been lactovegetarian with the occasional wild fish over 40 years. We always have some Norwegian dried cod (baccalao) at […]
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March soba greens
Today it reached an unusually warm 16C here which encouraged the first bumble bees and honey bees out! The picture shows the greens (and whites) used in tonight’s […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Tonight’s pizza greens
were….Purple sprouting perennial kale broccolis Allium scorodoprasum leeks (bendelløk)Good king henry / stolt henrik flower buds Post Views: 112
Climbers / Food / Perennial vegetables
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Habby pea soup
Yesterday was the first day above 10C this year and my Hablitzia (Caucasian spinach) plants are really growing fast. We used those in the picture together with thinned […]
Edimentals / Food / Perennial vegetables
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Hostas, scapes and broccolis
Last night’s greens included all my 16 Hostas, Allium scorodoprasum (sand leek / bendelløk) scapes; broccolis from sea kale (strandkål), ornamental sea kale (Crambe cordifolia) and Turkish rocket […]
Ferns / Food / Perennial vegetables
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Green Ostrich Pasta
I noticed yesterday that the ostrich ferns (strutseving) in the forest garden had put on a spurt despite the cold weather and were almost past the harvesting stage. […]
Breeding / Food / Onions / Root crops
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Caraway root breeding and Karvekaalsuppe
I’ve been selecting caraway (Carum carvi) through 4 generations now for larger roots. I plan to have a larger number of plants from next year at our community […]
Perennial vegetables
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Dandies, habbies, sand leeks, sorrel and sweet cicely
7th April 2020 perennial greens used in a quinoa stir-fry:Taraxacum officinale (dandelion / løvetann)Allium scorodoprasum (sand leeks / bendelløk) (these grow semi-wild in seaweed on my sea kale […]
Food / Perennial vegetable shoots
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Catch of the day!
Yesterday’s harvest mostly from the garden (blanched dandelions and horseradish from the cellar):Ground elder (skvallerkål)Lesser celandine (vårkål)Perennial kale (flerårige kål)Seombadi (Dystaenia takesimana)Dandelion (løvetann)Allium x proliferum (walking onion / […]
Food
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Never before pizza?
More or less anything can be used in a pizza, but I wager these have never been used in the same pizza: Oplopanax horridum, Allium scorodoprasum, Crambe maritima […]
Food / Onions / Perennial vegetables / Winter vegetables
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The first garden forage of the year!
After 3-4 weeks of snow cover, the weather this week changed dramatically and we had the second warmest February day over the last 100 years with over 10C! […]
Food / Onions
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Scape stir fry
Not garlic scapes as they’re not ready yet, but Chicago onion (Allium cernuum) scapes with Allium scorodoprasum scapes and Scorzonera scapes in tonight’s stir fry! Post Views: 153
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 […]
Salad
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Incredible Edible Jevnaker
What an amazing group of people who had assembled in Jevnaker at the weekend to learn more about perennial vegetables, edible weeds and edimentals! It was sad to […]
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 […]
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 […]