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) […]
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 […]
Record warmth and record early shoots
With record temperatures recorded in this area at the moment after a mild winter when all the cold spells coincided with good snow cover means that the soil […]
Garden wild green soup
Last night we made a green pea soup and apart from the Hablitzia (Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde), I used perennial vegetables growing in a wild part of the […]
Today’s perennial catch
23rd April 2020 perennial greens used in a delicious quiche (eggepai):Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde)Myrrhis odorata (sweet cicely / spansk kjørvel)Rumex acetosa (sorrel / engsyre) Campanula latifolia (giant […]
27th March Veggies from the garden
Tonight we made a quiche (eggepai) with these vegetables:Allium nutans (Siberian nodding onion)Allium cernuum (nodding onion / prærieløk)Dystaenia takesimana (Giant Ulleung Celery)Brassica oleracea (Perennial kale / flerårige kål)Allium […]
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; […]
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 […]
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 / […]
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), […]
Centro d’Ompio and Pettenasco
On 2nd April 2018, Matthias Brück who had invited me to Switzerland to take part in the Perennials for Resilience seminar in Stans asked me along on a […]
Tonight’s slow quiche
100% coarse organic rye and emmer pie crust (flour and butter) kneeded into the pie dish (not rolled out), then a layer of blue cheese, then mixed vegetables […]
Monster ground elder
My ground elder breeding efforts are paying off…. ;) …just kidding…I’m really not trying to breed a monster ground elder, but this one was growing next to my […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
Norwegian sansai
Good to be back from Japan to Norwegian sansai (foraged vegetables)…. From top left, left to right: Angelica archangelica “Vossakvann”, various dandelions / løvetann (Taraxacum), Rumex patientia (patience […]
