Zanthoxylum is a genus of some 250 species of deciduous and evergreen trees, shrubs and climbers in the citrus family, RutaceaeTo my great surprise, I discovered that a […]
Annuals / Spice
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Black onion seed in Malvik
A first for my garden and something I hadn’t thought was possible until a couple of years ago. I harvested black onion seed for the first time this […]
Spice
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Golpar ready to use
Cleaned this year’s golpar harvest, my favourite spice…used in a range of dishes, see here: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?s=golpar Real golpar is the ground seed of Heracleum persicum (Tromsøpalme), an important […]
Beans / Potato / Spice
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Broad beans, falafels, new potatoes and golpar
Today I harvested the year’s first broad beans at the Væres Venner Community Garden where KVANN (Norwegian Seed Savers) are developing a garden: I also harvested the first […]
Herbs / Medicinal plants / Spice
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Epazote
Epazote (sitronmelde) used to be called Chenopodium ambrosioides, but has been renamed Dysphania ambrosioides… It’s a short-lived perennial which can be overwintered in a cool room, resprouting from […]
Seed / Spice
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Harvesting golpar
Heracleum persicum is a giant umbellifer, very closely related to Giant Hogweed another very closely related invasive of more southerly latitudes. We call it Tromsøpalme here as these […]
Food / Fungi / Perennial vegetables / Spice
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Soba with stir-fried Golpared veggies
I made soba with stir-fried golpared veggies and wild fungi for tonight’s dinner. Soba is buckwheat noodles. Golpar is the Turkish spice usually made from the ground seed […]
Shrub / Spice
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Sansho in the cellar
I saw cultivation of and ate leaves of Japanese Pepper or sansho (Zanthoxylum piperitum) several times in Japan…these leaves had sprouted in my cellar (pot grown as two […]
Spice
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Homegrown Golpar
Saving seed for my own homegrown Golpar, a great spice made from the seed of Heracleum species (Hogweeds/bjørnekjeks) including Giant Hogweed and Tromsøpalm. Post Views: 107