Month: November 2010

  • Øko-helg

    Øverland Andelslandbruk og Slow Food Asker og Bærum satte fokus på økologisk mat. Siste helg i november 2010 var det praktiske kurs, filmer, fotoutstilling, økologisk lunch, “rå kaker” og fabelaktige foredrag på programmet.

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    Det hele begynte med tre praktiske kurs lørdag 27. november. Råmat, melkesyregjæring og baking med gamle kornsorter stod på agendaen.

    Rawfood

    Rå mat eller «rawfood» er den siste og meste trendy matretningen for tiden. Kafeen Helt Rå i Sandvika er et eksempel, de hadde både Lady Ga Ga og Prinsesse Märtha Louise på besøk den første uken. Rå mat er kort fortalt mat som ikke er varmebehandlet mer enn opp til 40 grader. Maten er hodesaklig ubehandler korn, frø, nøtter og grønnsaker Entusiastene av denne trenden hevder at vi mister opp til 80% av næringen ved tradisjonell matlaging, derfor ingen eller skånsom varmebehandling.

    MelkesyregjÆring

    Melkesyregjæring er en gammel konserveringsmetode benyttet for å ta vare på og lagre grønnsaker over tid. Grønnsaker presses sammen til at væsken flyter over grønnsakene. Alt legges i press og settes til gjæring i romtemperatur. Prosessen stoppes med å sette alt i kjøleskap. Holdbarheten er lang, det meste kjente melkesyrede produktet vi kjenner til er tyskernes surkål, «sauerkraut». Det brukes ofte store leirkrukker til å lage melkesyregjærede grønnsaker.

    Krukker til melkesyregjæring kan bestilles fra den danske firmaet hjmmeproduktion.dk. De har forøvrig mange flotte produkter for de som vil lage mat fra bunnen.

    Bakekurs

    Bakekurset holdt Kristin og Johan Swärd som hadde med mel fra grove, gode og gamle kornsorter fra gården Aschim Vestre på Hadeland. Gården er økologisk og biodynamisk drevet. Det kan også nevnes at Kristian Ormset fra Vital analyse som var foredragsholder påfølgende dag kunne beviselig si at kornet til Kristin og Johan Swärd var det beste han hadde testet. Full av vitaminer og antioksidanter kunne han se gjennom mikroskopet.
    Deigene ble satt for heving over natten og skulle bakes ut neste dag og gi brød til lunchen.

     

    På Steinerskolen søndag samlet nærmere 70 menmesker seg for å delta på ulike foredragene som gikk parallelt. Det ble et flott påfyll av matkunnskap ikke minst på grunn av alle de flotte og kunnskapsrike foredragsholderne. Jeg vil spesielt trekke frem de eksterne. Linda Jolly som guidet oss gjennom landbrukes histore på tre kvarter, Astri Riddervold tok for seg matkonsrveringens mysterier og Kristian Ormset fra Viltal analyse som kunne vise oss med sine mikroskopbilder at

    økologisk dyrket mat har i de fleste tilfeller en bedre kvalitet enn konvensjonell mat.

    Våre egne interne foredragholdere som snakket om kompostering, restemat og økologisk landbruk gav oss også mye matnyttig.

    Maten må ikke glemmes. Til lunch ble det servert 2 sorter gresskarsupper en tradisjonell 100% økologisk med gresskar, løk og grønnsaker samt en thai-variant med tilsatt løk, kokosmelk og karripasta. Nybakt brød av mel fra Hadeland samt økologisk smør og rømme fra Røros bidro til at dette ble et meget smakelig måltid. Kaffepausen senere på dagen gav oss smakfulle og helt rå kaker.

  • Organic food delivered at your doorstep

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    Kolonihagen abonnement delivers organic food to consumers, meaning both companies and private households, inside and outside of Oslo.

    If you want to know more, you will find lots of information on here.  Boxes filled with fruit, vegetables, bread and lots of other delicious stuff can be found in all of them. If you are going away for some time, you can easily stop the subscription for as long as you want.

    Besides using organic food, local producers are used as far as possible. This means that the customers of Kolonihagen abonnement are supporting local and organic farms in addition to receiving excellent agricultural products.

    Since the Norwegian Ministry of Agiculture and Food wants an organic share of the total agricultural produce increase to 15% within 2020, all contributions are welcome. Buying tests have shown that fruit and vegs from Kolonihagen are not more expensive than well-assorted food stores in Oslo.

    Maybe the canteen at the Ministry of Agiculture and Food could start buying organic food from Kolonihagen? How much of the food served in the canteen of the Ministry is organic? I sent them an email in October, and I’m still waiting for a reply. I guess the late or never-arriving reply indicates that the share is quite low.

    Organic food in Norway is still marginal and only for specially interested citizens. The share is so low that the government often includes agricultural areas which are being converted to growing organic produce. The numbers are 4.7% organic produce in 2009, and 5.6% including the aforementioned areas. Looking at our neighbouring country Denmark which has set a high priority to growing organic food, quite impressive results have been obtained. For instance, canteens at schools, hospitals and homes for the elderly in Copenhagen, have a share of 70% organic food, and they are aiming for 90% organic within 2015.

    For further information: København Mathus is responsible for the practical execution of including organic food in public canteens in Copenhagen.

     

  • Kolonihagen bakery

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    Kolonihagen bakery in Oslo has found a niche market by means of using traditional types of grain like spelt, baking manually and slowly, following nature’s requirements, and using organic ingredients.

    A lot of bakers were competing on Saturday 16 October 2010, the International Bread Day. Kolonihagen Bakery won first prize with their spelt breadrolls in the category fibre/bran bread. Not unexpectedly, Åpent Bakeri won 3 first prizes.

    The excellent, manually made baker’s products which have become popular in the Norwegian capital was started by Åpent Bakeri, which was founded by Emanuel Rang and Øyvind Lofthus in 1997. They were concentrating on manual baking, letting their bakery products mature naturally, and using a wood-fired oven, which was freighted from Hardanger in the west of Norway to Damplassen in Oslo and working with passion. Besides, by employing bakers who bake manually, lots of their bakers have gone on to found new bakeries like United Bakeries, Kanel Kafe in Sandvika, a baker called Morten Schakenda started a bakery in Lom, and of course, Kolonihagen Bakery in Oslo.

    Kolonihagen Bakery delivers baker’s products weekly or biweekly to their customers who get organic food on their doorsteps and daily to the restaurant Kolonihagen Frogner. The remainder is sold to nearby hotels and restaurants.

    From soil to table visited the bakery shortly after they had been awarded for their spelt breadrolls for which we naturally asked for the recipe. Below is listed a version for making them at home.

    Ingredients:

    • 3.5 decilitres of water
    • 300-400 grams of spelt flour
    • 100 grams of polished spelt (the bran has been removed)
    • 100 grams of crushed spelt
    • 100 grams carrots
    • 10 grams salt
    • 25 grams yeast

    Pumpkin seeds to be sprinkled on the top of the breadrolls.

    How to proceed:

    The day before you want to bake, mix the polished spelt with the crushed spelt and put on water in order to soak the mixture such that the spelt will attract water overnight.

    Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and put the mixture in the food processor. Let it run slowly for 2-3 minutes. Then, turn up the speed such that the dough doesn’t touch the bowl. Let the dough raise for about 2 hours

    Cut up the dough sized like breadrolls. Tip! Moisten the work bench and your hands such that the dough is not attaching to anything. The breadrolls should have round forms since the dough is quite loose. The diameter of the breadrolls should be about 10 cm.

    Let the breadrolls raise at least 25 minutes. Start at a temperature of 250 C, turning it gradually down to 230 C.

    Use organic ingredients only! Kolonihagen is only using organic, stone milled flour from Holli flour mill together with organic, Norwegian carrots.