Somebody asked me to show how I force veggies indoors in winter, so here you have a link to a short video showing what is available at the […]
Winter vegetables
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Indoor harvest
We’ve been eating dandelions every day this year and now the first batch that I brought up from the cellar is flowering: We ate that one yesterday, but […]
Food / Fungi / Perennial vegetables
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Wild Enoki, Oca and Hablitzia scrambled eggs
Wild Enoki, Oca, Hablitzia, wild buckwheat sprouts, Allium nutans with dandelion, garlic chilis mixed with scrambled eggs for a delicious home grown and foraged lunch!Enoki is one of […]
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 / Invasive plants / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Some odds and ends this week in Malvik
The best of vegetables ready to harvest this week: blanched sea kale (Crambe maritima), blanched lovage (Levisticum officinale) and nettles (Urtica dioica)! Delicious. IT’S DANDINOODLE TIME HERE IN […]
Cellar vegetables / Winter vegetables
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Cellar and Garden Greens: 6th April 2022
The greens that went into last night’s wholegrain spelt quiche are listed below the picture!CELLAR: Dystaenia takesimana shoots; Forced hogweed (bjørnekjeks) shoots (Heracleum spp.); Forced Taraxacum (dandelion / […]
Onions / Snow
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Snow onions
Various Allium species are the hardiest of edible plants either staying green all winter (e.g., Allium cernuum and Allium carinatum) or sprouting very early and able to withstand […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Fasciated dandelion- udo- sea kale salad
Not something I can make very often as I don’t find fasciated dandelions very often! A simple salad was put together, made fascinating with a fasciated dandelion.The blanched […]
Perennial vegetables / Winter vegetables
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Forced March Perennial Greens
In order to lengthen the season for harvesting of perennial vegetables, I dig up roots of a selection in the autumn and plant them in garden soil in […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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25th March Veggies
These delicious fresh perennial vegetables were added tonight’s dal towards the endAegopodium podograria (ground elder; skvallerkål)Allium cernuum (nodding onion; prærieløk)Brassica oleracea (perennial kale; flerårige kål)Ficaria verna (lesser celandine; […]
Food / Perennial vegetable shoots
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19th March Veggies
Continuing my series of veggies harvested from the garden. this time used in a baccalao with parsnip (pastinakk), potato (potet), bulb onions .(kepaløk), Jerusalem artichokes (jordskokk), (bought) organic […]
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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Dandelion-leek pizza
Many years ago, I ordered a delicious chicory pizza in Venice. Even though I found chicory quite bitter, in a pizza the bitterness was much reduced and it […]
Blanching / Cellar vegetables / Edible flowers / Food / Perennial vegetable shoots / Root crops / Salad
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The winter’s first salad shoot salad
The first winter shoots were harvested from the cellar today. It is almost totally dark in the cellar and currently about +6C. The blanched shoots in the picture […]
Edible flowers / Edimentals
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Dandelion time
Dandelion time has come around again! This is the only dandelion field I can see from the house! Is this the most productive field in the area? Post […]
Blanching / Food / Perennial vegetables
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Bellflower-chokes / Storklokkeskokker
I’ve previously introduced the gourmet part of the dandelion, the dandichoke! I write in my book: My favourite foraging author “(Samuel Thayer’s) favourite dandelion vegetable is what he […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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9th April veggies
Tonight’s garden foraged perennial veggies for an oriental stir-fry! Lots of Hablitzia (stjernemelde), ground elder (skvallerkål), Svenskelauk (a form of Allium fistulosum), sweet cicely (spansk kjørvel), dandelion (løvetann), […]
Beans / Food / Perennial vegetables
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Dandelonion bhajis
Onion bhajis are a popular and delicious starter in Indian restaurants and common veggie fast food in supermarkets in the UK. They are basically onions in a gram […]
Cellar vegetables / Food / Perennial vegetable shoots
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Falafels and cellar veggie wholegrain pizza!
Great to be home again to nutritious vegetarian food! Presenting this week’s two dishes, each lasting two days: dried broad bean falafels (with golpar spice) and a mixed […]
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! […]
Perennial vegetable shoots / Salad / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
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H for Hablitzia Extreme Salad
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 […]
Blanching / Dandelions / Foraging / Forcing / Perennial vegetables
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Dandelion harvest
Dandelions are one of my favourite winter perennial vegetables. During the summer, wild dandelions sow themselves on my cultivated beds….one of the advantages of having too much open […]
Community Garden
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Chance meeting with the founder of Good Neighbor Gardens in San Diego!
A chance meeting on the train from Oslo to Trondheim yesterday with Mia Vaughnes who is project coordinator and founder of Good Neighbor Gardens in San Diego ! […]
companion plants / Herbs / Onions
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Accidental companions
Accidental companions: a Sherpa onion (Allium wallichii) has set up home in the middle of my greek mountain tea (Sideritis syriaca) with a few self-sowed dandelions for good […]
Edible flowers / Perennial vegetables
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Late May flowers in the Edible Garden
A selection of late May flowers in the Edible Garden: Post Views: 111