Last year a garden helper, Daniil, helped me to harvest the wapato or duck potatoes (Sagittaria latifolia) which originate from the Mississippi River in Wisconsin. I grow them […]
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
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Slow barlotto
Tonight’s dinner was slow (kortreist) barlotto (byggotto) with whole grain Norwegian organic barley with:Mashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum) “Ken Aslet” and “White”Persian shallots (Allium stipitatum)Wapato (Sagittaria latifolia)Carrot / gulrotChicory / […]
Food
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December omelette
Last night’s simple winter omelette with ingredients I had on hand:Wapato tubers (Sagittaria latifolia)Potato “Blue Congo”Swiss chard (mangold)Shallots “Finland” (an old Finnish / Norwegian variety of sjalott)Barberry (vill […]
Perennial vegetables / Tubers / water plants
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Daniil and the duck potatoes
We like to give our helpers /wwoofers an experience to remember. Daniil Titov is with us for two weeks and in between the sleet showers we harvested the […]
Food / Tubers
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Rhizo-bacalhau
We occasionally eat wild fish and bacalhau is a favourite made from Norwegian dried cod that can be found in supermarkets here. More or less anything goes in […]
Food / Root crops
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Xmas diversity from the rhizosphere
Presenting this year’s 30 rhizosphantastic Xmas vegetables, all roasted in the oven, served as every year in the last 40 with nut roast, bedecked with the following seeds […]
water plants
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Sam Thayer and Mississippi wapato
As I mentioned in my post about harvesting wapato in my garden a couple of days ago, I attended the Midwest Wild Harvest Festival in Wisconsin in September […]
Tubers / water plants
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Freezing Wapato and Chinese Arrowhead harvest
When I attended the Midwest Wild Harvest Festival in Wisconsin in September 2019, I was lucky to be able to attend Sam Thayer’s Wetland Plant Hike along the […]
Food / Root crops
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Xmas day Rhizofantastigora dinner 2021
Xmas dinner in Malvik has been nut roast and roasted roots every year since 1984! This year there were 27 different roots: parsnip, 15 different varieties of potato, […]