{"id":22758,"date":"2019-07-04T12:10:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T10:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=22758"},"modified":"2019-07-04T12:10:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T10:10:14","slug":"sonchus-and-basil-pesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=22758","title":{"rendered":"Sonchus and Basil Pesto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Common sow thistle (<em>Sonchus oleraceus<\/em>) is now in season in my garden another plant categorised by most as a weed, but for me one of the most important vegetables in my garden from now until autumn. It even saves me work as the only thing I have to do is NOT weed it!! It is at its best when the leaves are shiny:<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-22758 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=22761'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"684\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P1900867.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P1900867.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P1900867-300x260.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P1900867-768x665.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=22762'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"590\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P1900865.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P1900865.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P1900865-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P1900865-768x573.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I made a sow thistle basil pesto last night together with basil grown in my office at the botanical gardens! I&#8217;m an office basil grower of over 40 years, having started when I was a student in 1978 (see\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=5221\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=5221<\/a>, where I made pesto and <em>Allium wallichii<\/em>, the Sherpa or Nepal onion)<br \/>\nLast night I used garlic and more Johannes&#8217; shallots (<em>Allium x cornutum<\/em>; see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=22601\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=22601<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-22758 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=22759'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"593\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P6087272.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P6087272.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P6087272-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P6087272-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=22760'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"594\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P1900869.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P1900869.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P1900869-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P1900869-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) is now in season in my garden another plant categorised by most as a weed, but for me one of the most important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14,24,210],"tags":[268,2206,1363,1860,3518,1349,279],"class_list":["post-22758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-herbs","category-onions","category-weeds","tag-allium-wallichii","tag-allium-x-cornutum","tag-common-sow-thistle","tag-haredylle","tag-johannes-shallot","tag-sherpa-onion","tag-sonchus-oleraceus"],"views":2516,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22763,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22758\/revisions\/22763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}