{"id":10214,"date":"2017-03-11T18:25:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T17:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=10214"},"modified":"2022-03-09T19:53:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T18:53:51","slug":"10214","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=10214","title":{"rendered":"The March 2017 Extreme Salads: Ingredients and preparation!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had already agreed in the autumn to take part in the culinary program of this year’s Kosmorama Film Festival in Trondheim in collaboration with the leading restaurant Credo. I therefore made my plans to make a diversity salad back then by moving roots and plants of perennials, that I could force early to be ready to harvest in early March, into my cold cellar. The cellar is \u00a0basically 4 unheated full size rooms under the house which, in a normal winter, are around 2-4C, perfect for storing vegetables.<\/p>\n

Other connected posts:
\nThe Credo\/Kosmorama diversity dinner: http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=10138
\n<\/a>The Credo\/ Kosmorama Extreme salad (with 105 ingredients):\u00a0http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=10184
\n<\/a>The Extreme Winter Record Salad (with >140 ingredients):\u00a0http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=10199<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve divided the ingredients into 11 groups and each are discussed in turn below. \u00a0The first group\u00a0of vegetables were:
\n1) CELLAR STORED ANNUAL VEGETABLES
\nThese are traditional vegetables, both leafy greens and root crops like potatoes. \u00a0I transplant all the leafy greens, like swiss chard, kales, leeks, parsley and chicories \u00a0from the garden to pots and wooden boxes full of soil. If the temperature is below about 4C, most of the vegetables go into a hibernation state and I can continue to harvest them when I need them. As the temperature increases many of the plants sprout and in the dark (it’s not necessary to use lights at all) the young growth lacks chlorophyll (are blanched). Here are a few pictures (the captions tell more):<\/p>\n