{"id":31255,"date":"2023-06-17T07:35:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T05:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=31255"},"modified":"2023-06-17T08:08:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T06:08:41","slug":"turkish-rocket-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=31255","title":{"rendered":"Turkish brockets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week, the tastiest part of turkish rocket \/ russek\u00e5l (Bunias orientalis), the broccolis (affectionately known as brockets here!), were ready to harvest! Although considered an unwanted invasive nowadays in Norway, my 30 year old plant has never produced a seed. However, the plant died (I thought) a couple of years ago only for a number of new plants to appear from the roots some distance away. I hadn&#8217;t realised it did this. I was also puzzled to read on the Norwegian invasive species database that it is biennial and spreads aggressively by seed (see https:\/\/artsdatabanken.no\/Fab2018\/N\/602).<br \/>Anyway, it made a delicious lunch stir-fried with St. George&#8217;s mushroom (v\u00e5rfagerhatt), some leftover cooked potatoes and mixed into scrambled egg with chili and garlic. Read more in my book Around the World in 80 plants.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31262 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088035.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088035.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088035-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088035-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088035-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31261 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088037.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088037.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088037-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088037-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088037-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31260 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088038.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088038.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088038-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088038-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088038-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088041.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088041.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088041-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088041-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088041-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31258 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088043.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088043.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088043-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088043-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P1088043-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the tastiest part of turkish rocket \/ russek\u00e5l (Bunias orientalis), the broccolis (affectionately known as brockets here!), were ready to harvest! Although considered an unwanted invasive [&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":[17,1355],"tags":[4472,4851,657,1413,658,3916,3494],"class_list":["post-31255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-perennial-vegetables","tag-broccolis","tag-brockets","tag-bunias-orientalis","tag-egg","tag-russekal","tag-turkish-rocket","tag-varfagerhatt"],"views":2333,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31255","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=31255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31264,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31255\/revisions\/31264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}