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”; […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
Posted on:
Mallows in season
Mallows (Malva spp.) are now in season for harvesting and will from now until autumn be an important source of greens and edible flowers. The best part are […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
Posted on:
Norwegian quinoa and swamp greens medley
13th June 2020 perennial greens were stir-fried and served with quinoa and served with Allium ursinum flowers.Allium validum (swamp or Pacific onion) with flower shootSaxifraga pensylvanica (swamp saxifrage)Gunnera […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
Posted on:
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 […]
Perennial vegetables
Posted on:
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 […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
Posted on:
Perennial pizza
Last night’s pizza, perennials apart from Atriplex hortensis “Rubra”; including sea kale broccolis, perennial kales, Allium nutans, sorrel, Malva moschata, Anise hyssop, nettles etc. Pizza med strandkål […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
Posted on:
Perennial pizza
Last night’s pizza, perennials apart from Atriplex hortensis “Rubra”; including sea kale broccolis, perennial kales, Allium nutans, sorrel, Malva moschata, Anise hyssop, nettles etc. Pizza med strandkål […]
Perennial vegetable shoots / Salad / Winter shoots / Winter vegetables
Posted on:
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 […]
Edible flowers / Perennial vegetables / Salad
Posted on:
Sea kale broccoli end of May salad
Just expressing some feelings through a salad ;) With sea kale broccolis, tulip flowers, Allium zebdanense (Lebanon onion) flowers, Aster scaber, sorrel, patience dock, Mertensia paniculata, Allium schoenoprasum […]
Onions / Perennial vegetables
Posted on:
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 […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
Posted on:
Pakora hasn’t met this selection of veggies before!
I gave myself a little treat this week and made Indian pakora! Pakora are basically fried vegetable fritters, often sold as a starter in Indian restaurants. The vegetables […]
Perennials
Posted on:
Solstice sweet and sour soup greens
Somebody once said that solstice greens are the best…I’d add that solstice perennial greens are even better :) Here’s what I used in tonight’s soup: Sea kale(strandkål), Scorzonera (scorsonnerot), […]
Anredera cordifolia / Dandelions / garlic bulbils / Perennials
Posted on:
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 […]