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New Day Cafe: Cooking with Flowers? [1]
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Date: 2023-08-11
What flowers are edible?
From personal experience, garlic blossoms, lightly sautéed, are delightful — it’s a very delicate taste. (These are not the scapes, but actual little white flowers. The sprig came as the garnish to the appetizer I’d ordered.) Day lilies are very nice in salads, and I think that’s how I had nasturtiums, too. Oh, and dandelion flowers make wine, as Ray Bradbury pointed out. Below the fold, there are some ideas. But you don’t want anything that has been sprayed! so it’s best if you can grow your own, or buy from an organic farm.
And be careful:
Just as you wouldn’t go grazing on any old leaf instead of lettuce, some flowers are very much inedible. Blame Instagram, which has hot-housed the edible flower trend, for promoting toxic, or even potentially lethal, flowers – such as rhododendron – shown adorning smoothies and puddings. Edible flowers include lavender, roses, hollyhocks, pelargoniums, nasturtiums and pansies. Some look similar – jasmine is fine, but false jasmine is poisonous; you can eat the flowers of garden peas, but not sweet peas. Anyone allergic to pollen should steer clear of them all. www.theguardian.com/… [emphasis added]
Violets and roses are also edible, of course: the petals can be candied and used to help decorate a cake or pastry. Before vanilla extract was widely available, rose water often flavored desserts. And hibiscus flowers (flor de jamaica in Mexico) make a nice tart iced tea or agua fresca. But there are many more. For the purposes of this diary, I’m sticking to flowers I personally know are edible.
Do you like hibiscus tea? It’s also known as sorrel tea, and it has a nice tartness to it. I like it just plain, iced, but agua fresca looks great too. And those tacos!
Hibiscus Flower Tacos & Hibiscus Agua Fresca
(Tacos de flor de jamaica y Agua Fresca de jamaica)
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. Luther Burbank
Agua Fresca recipe is here. A version of the tacos is here. [13:38]
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Pumpkin Blossom Quesadillas
The earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emmy adapted her recipe from this video. [10:55]
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Fried Stuffed Squash Blossoms
Flowers are happy things. P. G. Wodehouse
Recipe is here. [6:09]
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Nasturtium Butter & Stuffed Nasturtiums
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be. Sappho
Bon Appétit has the butter; and stuffed nasturtiums are here. [8:12]
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Nasturtium Salad
Nasturtium petals [...] have a subtle, delicious flavor. It’s a slightly peppery taste similar to a mild Watercress. foodwishes.blogspot.com/...
Recipe is here. [3:41]
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Daylily Salad
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living. Ursula Andress
Here's a written recipe. [2:30]
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Woodear & Dried Lily Flower Soup
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. Claude Monet
Recipe is in the YouTube description. [4:37]
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Nasturtium Jelly
I’ve been growing Nasturtiums for years. They are great in salads, stuffed with herb cheese, and make a delicious jelly that can be served with grilled meats or on soft warm bread. www.sowanddipity.com/...
Here’s her recipe. [10:24]
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So c’mon in the café and grab a cuppa...
..and a nice nosh...
x Tacos de flor de jamaica con costra de queso de hebra. ¿Van a querer?
5 favs y les paso la receta. pic.twitter.com/dRRE8B6B5T — Tati𝕏 (@ZooCrochet) November 16, 2020
..and join us!
New Day Café is an open thread. What do you want to talk about today?
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