{"id":23132,"date":"2019-08-13T19:51:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T17:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=23132"},"modified":"2019-08-13T19:59:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T17:59:05","slug":"broad-beans-falafels-new-potatoes-and-golpar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=23132","title":{"rendered":"Broad beans, falafels, new potatoes and golpar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I harvested the year&#8217;s first broad beans at the V\u00e6res Venner Community Garden where KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) are developing a garden:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23138\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180186.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180186-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180186-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23135\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180192.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180192-300x251.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180192-768x642.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also harvested the first potatoes at home&#8230;and the year&#8217;s first falafels resulted with new potatoes for dinner. The falafels were flavoured with salt, pepper, shallots, chili and golpar (ground seed of any species of Heracleum or hogweed) which gives a delicious exotic flavour!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23134\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1920514.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"712\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1920514.jpg 712w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1920514-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23133\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1920516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1920516.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1920516-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1920516-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Heracleum sibiricum<\/em> gives the local variant of golpar here&#8230;most people have a local variety of hogweed to harvest, even Giant Hogweed (<em>Heracleum mantegazzianum<\/em>) or Tromso palm (<em>H. persicum<\/em>), the latter giving the most authentic Iranian golpar spice.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23137\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180189.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180189-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180189-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23136\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180190.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180190-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180190-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180190-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I harvested the year&#8217;s first broad beans at the V\u00e6res Venner Community Garden where KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) are developing a garden: I also harvested the first [&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":[415,417,297],"tags":[816,197,272,275,3534,2527],"class_list":["post-23132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beans","category-potato","category-spice","tag-broad-beans","tag-chili","tag-falafel","tag-golpar","tag-heracleum-sibiricum","tag-shallot"],"views":3893,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23132","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=23132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23141,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23132\/revisions\/23141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}