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 / 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]