To celebrate that the life-timer clicked over from 69 to 70 yesterday, the Barstow household’s tradition of making an equi-age permaveggie diversity MacCheese for dinner was followed once again, except we were out of macaroni and it was therefore a 70 species FusCheese with whole grain Fusili pasta! Curious as to what was in it, please see the plant ingredient list below the pictures:
Ingredients list:
Agastache foeniculum ; Anise Hyssop; Anisisop
Agastache foeniculum Aureum; Golden Anise Hyssop; Anisisop
Allium angulosum x nutans “Norrlandsløk”; Norrland onion; Norrlandsløk
Allium cernuum Pink Giant
Allium cernuum White Dwarf
Allium douglasii; Douglas’ onion; Douglas-løk
Allium fistulosum “Nedre Gjetsiden”; Welsh onion; Takløk fra Gudbrandsdalen
Allium hymenorhizum
Allium nutans ; Blue Chives; Sibirsk nikkeløk
Allium ochotense ; Japanese victory onion; Seiersløk
Allium paradoxum var paradoxum; Few-flowered Leek
Allium pskemense x fistulosum; Wietse’s onion; Wietsesløk
Allium sativum ; Garlic ; Hvitløk
Allium schoenoprasum Dwarf White; Chives; Gressløk
Allium tricoccum; Ramps
Allium validum; Swamp Onion; Stillehavsløk
Allium victorialis “Nordland” ; Victory onion; Seiersløk
Allium x cornutum ; St. John’s onion ; Johannesløk
Allium x proliferum “Dømmesmoen”; Walking onion; Luftløk
Angelica archangelica ssp archangelica v. Majorum “Vossakvann Markusteigen”; Angelica; Vossakvann
Anthriscus cerefolium ; Chervil; Hagekjørvel
Anthriscus sylvestris “Golden Fleece”; Cow parsley; Hundekjeks
Arabis alpina; Alpine rock cress; Fjellskrinneblom
Aralia californica; Elk clover; California-udo
Aralia elata; Japanese Angelica tree, Devil’s walking stick; Fandens spaserstokk
Artemisia dracunculus sativa “German”; German Tarragon; Tysk estragon
Aster yomena
Aster microcephalus
Aster scaber; Korean aster; Korea-asters
Barbarea vulgaris ssp vulgaris; Yellow Rocket/Wintercress; Vinterkarse
Bistorta officinalis; Bistort; Ormerot
Campanula trachelium; Nettle-leaved Bellflower/ Bats in the Belfry; Nesleklokke
Cardamine raphanifolia
Chamerion angustifolium; Rosebay Willowherb; Geitrams
Chenopodium bonus-henricus; Good King Henry; Stolt Henrik
Cirsium canum; Queen Anne’s Thistle; Droning Annes tistel
Cirsium oleraceum; Siberian Thistle/Cabbage Thistle; Kåltistel
Cirsium setidens
Crambe maritima; Sea kale; Strandkål
Cryptotaenia canadensis; Honewort
Cryptotaenia japonica Atropurpurea; Purple mitsuba; Lilla-mitsuba
Dystaenia takesimana ; Ulleung giant celery; Uleungkjempeselleri
Hemerocallis altissima; Daylily; Daglilje
Hemerocallis citrina; Daylily; Daglilje
Hemerocallis dumortieri; Daylily; Daglilje
Hemerocallis middendorfii; Daylily; Daglilje
Hemerocallis spp.; Daylily; Daglilje
Hemerocallis spp.; Daylily; Daglilje
Heracleum sphondylium ; Hogweed; Kystbjørnekjeks
Heracleum sphondylium “Pink flowered”; Hogweed; Kystbjørnekjeks
Hosta spp.; Hosta ; Hosta
Hosta spp.; Hosta ; Hosta
Humulus lupulus Aureus ; Golden Hops; Gullhumle
Hydrophyllum tenuipes; Pacific waterleaf; Stillehavs-vassblad
Hydrophyllum virginianum; Eastern Waterleaf; Virginia Waterleaf; Virginia-vassblad
Lepidium latifolium ; Dittander; Strandkarse
Levisticum officinale “Ullershov”; Lovage; Løpstikke
Ligularia fischeri; Fischer’s Ligularia; Fischersnøkketunge
Ligusticum hultenii; Hulten’s lovage; Hultens strandkjeks
Oenanthe javanicum; Seri ; Seri
Phyteuma nigrum ; Black rampion; Svartvadderot
Plantago major “Atropurpurea”; Greater Plantain; Groblad
Primula veris ; Cowslip; Marinøkleblom
Rudbeckia laciniata ; Cutleaf Coneflower; Gjerdesolhatt, kyss-meg-over-gjerde, sochan
Rumex patientia; Herb Patience; Hagesyre
Saxifraga stolonifera; Creeping saxifrage
Silene vulgaris; Bladder Campion, Maiden’s Tears; Engsmelle
Taraxacum tortilobum ; Moss-leaved Dandelion; Mosebladet løvetann
Tragopogon pratensis; Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon; Geitskjegg
Urtica gracilis ; Stinging Nettle, California Nettle; California-nesle
Tag Archives: Birthday
MAC 69 ONION CHEESE
Thanks everyone for all the birthday greetings! I spent my 69th by visiting the Onion Garden Chicago that I look after at the Ringve Botanical Garden, worked for an hour and harvested leaves from 69 different Alliums as one does, surprised my daughter by meeting her off the bus from Oslo and then had a lovely evening with Mac 69 Onion Cheese with Hablitzia tamnoides washed down with a few glasses, my first birthday as a Norwegian citizen 🙂
68th Birthday Mac-Cheese with 68 shoots of 4 species
Last year’s birthday dinner was the Around the World in 80 Mac-Cheese, this year’s green mac-cheese contained 68 Hablitzia shoots, 68 ramsons (ramsløk) leaves, 68 ground elder (skvallerkål) leaves and 68 stinging nettle (brennesle) shoots, with opium poppy seeds and nutty alpine bistort (harerug) bulbils on top!
The video shows me collecting the Hablitzia shoots!
Birthday excavations
Many thanks for all the birthday greetings yesterday!
Last year’s signature tune was When I’m 64 by the Beatles, but this year’s I’ve been looking forward to most. It’s a song recorded by my favourite singer/ songwriter Vin Garbutt on his album “Tossin’ a Wobbler” from 1978. It goes like this:
“A man of the earth, a man of the soil in his lonely allotment he labours and toils.
He’s not much to do since he turned 65.
So he took to his garden to keep him alive its his only joy and his pride.
Every day as I go through the old shanty town where the sheds and allotments all stand I see the old man of the land with a rake or a spade in his hand.
He’s there in all weather in sunshine or rain.”
Here’s a live recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMrzhLedV1o
I even used to sing it (very badly) when I was young to the torment of my family! I recently discovered and bought a documentary about Garbutt (he died in 2017) and was pleasantly surprised to discover that he was a veggie gardener in real life (http://www.pancrack.tv/vin.html), I spent my birthday doing what I like best…digging…and completing about 30m of trench along the driveway and around the outhouse, the latter to eliminate the tree roots from a new garden area and along the whole length of the driveway, also to keep tree roots out of an area where I still grow annuals. It’s difficult on my shallow soil to get a balance and the trees I planted on my boundary over 30 years ago were taking over. I last dug up the 20-30m of the driveway by hand 34 years ago so that we could drive the car up to the house. I know as I have a picture somewhere of my wife pregnant with Hazel and Robin with a pile of stones. We’ve now gone full circle and we’re carless and the drive is back to being a footpath.
P.S: I’ve also become known as ESM: Extreme Subterranean Man
…and extending a bed around this birch tree with excess soil:
