Monday, August 1, 2011

Eat your flower bouquet

When a bride tosses you a bouquet, you can put it to a really good use - you can eat it in your salad. A lot of flower petals are perfectly delicious and good for you, such as these: carnations, violets, chrysanthemums, daisies, cornflowers, dandelions, jasmine, lilac, rose, gladiolus and sunflowers. Avoid these flowers: azalea, rhododendron, phylodendron, daffodils, lilies, irises, ivy and hyacinth. Some flower heads are delicious steamed when tender and unopened, especially dandelions and sunflowers. It is not recommended to eat flowers from a nursery until you can ask them if they used any poisonous pesticides. These are links, by the way:
Edible Flowers: From garden to kitchen: growing flowers you can eat, with a directory of 40 edible varieties and 25 recipes, with 350 glorious colour photographs.Edible Flowers: Desserts & DrinksEat Your Yard: Edible Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Herbs, and Flowers For Your LandscapeOrganic Edible Flower Kit - PansyWhite Box Gardens - Edible FlowersOrganic Edible Flower Kit - Nasturtiums

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