The cookie recipe uses about 18 flower heads. I had flowers, and I had a hankering for cookies (when I shouldn't be eating any).
Recipe comes from the book, "Cooking with Flowers: Sweet and Savory Recipes with Rose Petals, Lilacs, Lavender, and Other Edible Flowers, by Miche Bacher. Original recipe calls for 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour. I used 1 cup einkorn flour and 1/4 all-purpose white. I didn't have any lemon zest in my freezer, so I used lemon extra in the sugar. Very light and healthy.
..brought in a good amount of chard and kale to blanch and freeze. Collards were planted a bit late, and although my orange chard failed in the (falling apart) raised bed, my red chard re-seeded itself (kudos to that).
More radishes. Not very many Cherry Belle.
More bread baking - French toast, sandwiches, toast, and a side with dinners. I was in a hurry ( do not be in a hurry), the water was too hot, and my loaves are a bit on the short side. That's okay, the kids are devouring it and it fits better in the toaster, ha ha!
Guess who got stung by a wasp? Yeah. Me. I was standing still, filling a watering can under the rain barrel, minding my own business. It landed right on my arm. I immediately picked plantain, and ground it up in my food processor (making more than I needed). It was red, and swelling and hurt pretty bad. This morning, there is no sign it was there but a teeny bit of tenderness. The power of weeds is amazing.
I don't know what my next adventure will be this week, but I do know peas need picked. Enjoy your week....
The weather here is amazingly cool and tolerable in the afternoons. Camping weather. Which we have yet to do (for two reasons). I have managed to take time for myself and a few handicrafts though.
I don't know what my next adventure will be this week, but I do know peas need picked. Enjoy your week....
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I have been collecting Dandelions for next door's Chickens. I didn't know we could eat them. I must try one !
Interesting post! Cooking with flowers sounds cool, so many plants and flowers that you'd never think are useful. I have a new found appreciation for dandelion!
These sound very good, I'd like to try them as I have a lot of calendula at the moment :D
Sussexmouse, I have made a dandelion bread using the flowers before, and the same cookbook I mentioned for the Calendula flower cookies has a recipe for dandelion cookies.
Jenn, I am learning something new every year. My family appreciates it too.
Yarrow, the same cookbook has recipes for Calendula cornbread and a calendula ravioli. I hope to try them soon too. I borrowed the book from our library.
I love that you're cooking with flowers! I haven't made the jump yet. I need to be more brave lol...sorry you got stung, but wow about the plantain. I'm sure if I could find some here it would heal my (still itchy) black fly bites from last month.
Rain, plantain is very helpful for so many uses. The cookies were very good too.
We've had several cooler days with low humidity, but now it's raining again, and although we need it, the temps will be rising next week and the humidity right along with it. Yuck!!!
Prayers everyone is having a great week.
God bless.
RB
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RB, we've had many days of high heat and humidity, so I hope it cools down for both of us soon.
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