This is what I had for dinner last night: a Mediterranean-diet style green (wholegrain spelt) pasta dish with wild fungi, annual greens, broad beans, weeds, golpar, chili and […]
Food / Salad
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50 and 20 year celebrations
To celebrate our good friends’ Jurgen Wegter and Ingvild Haga’s 50th birthdays together with Meg’s 50-year anniversary of arriving in Europe for the first time (in Southampton near […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Garden foraged perennial veggies: 28th June 2023
Tonight’s perennial vegetables from the garden, used in a stir-fry:Top right and clockwise:Sochan / Cherokee greens tops (Rudbeckia laciniata); Norsk: Kyss-meg-over-gjerde (picture at the bottom)Sorrel (Rumex acetosa) “Skomvær”; […]
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 / […]
Food
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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 […]
Beetles / Insects / Pollinators
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Bee beetle
One of my favourite insects is the bee beetle / humlebille (Trichius fasciatus). This morning I saw it on one of my favourite onions victory onion / seiersløk […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Today’s permaveggies
Presenting the 14 permaveggies used in tonight’s Indian dal! Here are the ingredients:Around the outside: Blanched sea kale / strandkål (Crambe maritima)Stinging nettle / brennesle (Urtica dioica)Top left […]
Food
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Winter stir-fry
People are always asking me for recipes. I rarely follow recipes as my ingredients vary so much and I just use what I have available. However, I do […]
Butterflies and moths / Seed sAVING
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Parsnip moth
If you grow parsnip (pastinakk) for seed, you may have come across the parsnip moth or parsnip webworm (Depressaria radiata) as it can make an impact on seed […]
Food / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Victory falafels
Falafels can be home grown over most of Norway and if we are serious about climate change should become standar fare in kitchens, restaurants and supermarkets throughout the […]
Climbers / Food / Perennial vegetables
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The paradoxical habby pesto
Last night’s Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde) and Allium paradoxum pesto was of course delicious with golpar (Heracleum spice), garlic, chili, sunflower seeds, parmesan, salt and pepper. […]
Birds
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Great tit attacking Hogweed
I noticed this great tit (kjøttmeis) vigorously hacking at a hogweed (Heracleum) stem in the garden, presumably looking for dinner…the picture shows the result Post Views: 79
Seed
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Misoni’s seeds
My friend Misoni Sandvik who figures in the Aster scaber and Bunias orientalis stories in my book has been back to Korea for the first time and she […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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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, […]
Seed
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Packing and sorting seed
A few pictures of seed I cleaned and packed for trading, offering to Norwegian Seed Savers and using in the kitchen today! 131116: Added a few more that […]