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 […]
Salad
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Pot luck salad
On Sunday 26th May we organized a potluck party in Væres Venners Community Garden in Trondheim for the first time! It was a fantastically successful event in glorious […]
Magazine article
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ARTIKLER OM FLERÅRIGE GRØNNSAKER FRA HAGETIDEND 2021
I 2021 publiserte Norsk Hagetidend en serie artikler jeg hadde skrevet om 10 av mine favoritt flerårige grønnsaker til Norsk Hagetidend. Alle artiklene kan nå bli lastet ned […]
Blanching / Food / Perennial vegetable shoots
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Wietse’s Onion Soup with Udos, Hosta, Ostrich Ferns, Sea Kale and Ramsons
The best of spring in one sitting. In celebration of the country Norway, we yesterday (17th May) harvested a small selection of the best blanched perennial vegetables (apart […]
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 […]
Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Unintentional presents
Yesterday was my birthday and the best presents were all unintended as birthday presents:1. Allium victorialis from a large stand that has naturalised from a farm garden in […]
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 […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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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
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Pizza greens 1st May 2020
Presenting yesterdays greens used on a veggie 100% whole grain barley/spelt/rye sourdough pizza were:Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach /stjernemelde) (eaten now every day since the beginning of March and […]
Brassica / Perennial vegetable shoots
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An Aristocratic Vegetable
Sea kale Crambe maritima is sometimes referred to as the King of the Vegetables (Queen is perhaps more fitting!) . This is partly due to the fact that […]
Food
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Veggie wholegrain pizza with New Zealand Spinach
My daughter asked if we’d like to come and join her and her friend in Napolitana (the village pizza restaurant). We were actually just about to eat pizza […]
Food
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Never before pizza?
More or less anything can be used in a pizza, but I wager these have never been used in the same pizza: Oplopanax horridum, Allium scorodoprasum, Crambe maritima […]
Perennials
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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), […]