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 […]
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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 […]
Food
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Golpared onion bhajis
Indian bhajis are a popular snack or side dish in UK Indian restaurants…deep fried onions in a batter made of chick pea flour with various spices usually including […]
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 […]
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.
Music / Onions
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Onions and Norwegian Folk Music
I enjoyed myself last Tuesday evening talking about onions with Marianne Meløy and Amund Storløkken Åse, surrounded by some amazing art at Atelier Ilsvika, in an eclectic acoustic […]
Garden tour / Hagevandring
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Around the garden in 40 plants
To celebrate 40 years since I and my then wife Eileen bought Bergstua (literally house on the rock) and the garden that became The Edible (Forest) Garden, I […]
Food
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Saint John’s Eve Felafels
Yesterday was St. John’s Eve and many Norwegians (and other Scandinavians) celebrated what is known here as Sankthans or Jonsok with communal bonfires, the big midsummer celebration. Sankt […]
Food
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Green pasta
This is what I had for dinner last night: a Mediterranean-diet style green (wholegrain spelt) pasta dish with wild fungi, annual greens, broad beans, weeds, golpar, chili and […]
Food / Salad
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50 and 20 year celebrations
To celebrate our good friends’ Jurgen Wegter and Ingvild Haga’s 50th birthdays together with Meg’s 50-year anniversary of arriving in Europe for the first time (in Southampton near […]
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, […]
Food
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Beetroot harvest and “blood” burgers for dinner again
This week I harvested the beetroots and being more or less 100% self-sufficient in vegetables, seasonal food is the thing! My favourite way to use beetroot (both red, […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Perennial Baccalao with victory onions
We occasionally eat wild fish and are particularly fond of baccalao (dried salted cod from Lofoten).These were yesterday’s ingredients (list at the bottom): Top left and clockwise: Dandichokes […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Perennial veggie saag and stuffed blue congo paratha
The favourite food of an average Englishman of my generation is Indian and I’m no exception. Yesterday I was inspired to make perennial veggie aloo saag and stuffed […]
Berries
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Lemon Berberis
Norwegian: for en norsk oversettelse av denne artikkelen (Norwegian translation), se KVANNs (Norwegian Seed Savers) Nyhetsbrev #15 There’s always been a barberry (Berberis vulgaris) in my garden, in […]
Food
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Winter stir-fry
People are always asking me for recipes. I rarely follow recipes as my ingredients vary so much and I just use what I have available. However, I do […]
Butterflies and moths / Seed sAVING
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Parsnip moth
If you grow parsnip (pastinakk) for seed, you may have come across the parsnip moth or parsnip webworm (Depressaria radiata) as it can make an impact on seed […]
Brassica / Dandelions / Edible flowers / Ferns / Food / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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A 65 Veggie Pakora at 65
To celebrate my 65th we made indian pakora with 65 (or so) different perennial vegetables. Going for a new title, this time EPM (Extreme Pakora Man)! Any better? […]
Food / Onions / Perennial vegetables
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Victory falafels
Falafels can be home grown over most of Norway and if we are serious about climate change should become standar fare in kitchens, restaurants and supermarkets throughout the […]
Climbers / Food / Perennial vegetables
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The paradoxical habby pesto
Last night’s Hablitzia tamnoides (Caucasian spinach / stjernemelde) and Allium paradoxum pesto was of course delicious with golpar (Heracleum spice), garlic, chili, sunflower seeds, parmesan, salt and pepper.
Book / Foraging
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Holmboe’s Gratis mat av ville planter
To buy, see the bottom of this page (for å kjøpe, se nederst på denne siden). Jens Holmboe’s book “Gratis mat av ville planter” (Free food from wild […]
Cellar vegetables / Food / Perennial vegetable shoots
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Falafels and cellar veggie wholegrain pizza!
Great to be home again to nutritious vegetarian food! Presenting this week’s two dishes, each lasting two days: dried broad bean falafels (with golpar spice) and a mixed […]
Beans / Food
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19th October 2014 Falafel
19th October 2014: Broad beans / bondebønner were harvested today and made into falafel with onions, apple, chilis, garlic and golpar (Heracleum persicum / Tromsøpalme spice) with barley […]
Food / Perennial vegetables
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Mallow Sorrel Fish Soup
I eat wild fish now and again, but there’s always masses of veggies….and today musk mallow (Malva moschata) is at its most productive, with various Russians sorrels, day […]