Cooking with Flowers

Simple Recipes, Simple Pleasures

Cooking with Flowers

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In centuries past, we cooked a lot more with flowers than we do today. Fortunately that trend is slowly reversing itself.

Now, with the advent of the internet, finding culinary quality flowers to add color and flavor to food is that much easier!

Hopefully I'll get more flower themed stuff added here very, very soon! This should be enough to get anyone interested in adding floral flavors started, though.

Cooking with Roses

Cooking with Lavender

You can't find a better source for herbal teas, organic herbs, essential oils, and anything else that's good for your body as well as your soul.

This is one of the very few places online that you can order flowers other than just lavender, too!

There are more and more suppliers online who offer culinary quality flower products. Lavender in particular is very easy to find. Just be sure that it's labeled as being safe for consumption and hasn't been sprayed with pesticides!

Remember also that when experimenting with flowery flavors that you start small and increase gradually to taste. It's a heck of a lot easier to add more than to take it out again! Many times you don't have to make any other adjustments to a recipe, just mix in a little ground or crushed flowers to what you already have.

* If you have cats, the water drained from a can of tuna can be a lovely treat for the little hairballs. Keep it as an occasional treat only, as tuna is at the top of the food chain and has higher levels of mercury in it than other types of fish.

Protect yourself and other family members as well with information found at this helpful little link:

http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/tuna.asp

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