The enjoyment of food is a multisensory experience; from the sound of someone in the kitchen preparing a meal with love, and the delicious, wafting aroma, to obviously the mouth-watering taste of a beautiful meal.
However, too often, the visual delight of a meal is overlooked. One of the easiest ways to remedy this, is – Cooking with Flowers.
Cooking with Flowers adds colour, fun, elegance, zest and art to any food you are serving.
Please see my blog last week, Edible Flowers(1), for a list of which flowers are edible, and the nutrients in each of them. Cooking with Flowers, is about how to create meals that will impress your family and friends by adding a blend of blossoms to both sweets and savoury dishes.
A few suggestions first…
- Try and pick your flowers just before cooking with them
- If you are buying the flowers, cover them with a damp cloth and keep them in the fridge in an airtight container (they will last three or four days this way)
- Wash flowers thoroughly, but delicately in cold water, before using
- Use the petals (discard the pistils and stamens)
- Add flowers to the meal after you have finished cooking, do not actually cook them, as the flowers are too fragile, and will break up
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i love this follow up to the edible flower blog, so many things to learn so little time,
i will be planting a new edible garden next to the organic vegetable patch, and when summer
comes back around coconut water icy poles and blocks of ice with flowers inside brilliant!
and the handy hint with getting the flowers centered in the ice blocks love it
thanks greenwitchtea.com
Hi Mark, that is fabulous you are planting an edible flower garden, brilliant stuff. Enjoy the icy poles come summer, and thanks for your comment :-))
Many blessings )o(