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Edible Flowers for your table

This month we would like to feature an incredible chef and founder of the restaurant India Joze; Jozseph Schultz. The restaurant recently re-opened after 13 years of being closed.
Jo is hotter than ever with his new exotic dishes that incorporate the use of tropical flowers, with dishes influenced from India, Thailand and Bali, Africa, South [...]

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Great Source for Edible Flower Recipes!

We found an incredible resource for people interested in finding out more about Edible Flowers.  Which flowers can you eat, and which flowers should you avoid?
Allegheny County Pennsylvania has an Official Website with an A.C. gardens section (under Parks Deparment) which lists Edible Flowers recipes, and comprehensive list of which flowers are edible and which [...]

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Dandelions – From Lawn to Lunch

Depending on your perspective, the little dandelion flowers that dot green lawns with yellow this time of year can be a cheerful sign of warmer days, a pesky weed to be destroyed or, once they’ve transformed into downy orbs, wish-fulfillment predictors.
To others, they represent free lunch. Dandelion greens now appear in many supermarkets, but if [...]

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Dandelion Syrup

This is a very old edible flower recipe that most likely came from the earliest European settlers who brought this “weed” with them as a food and herb source. Obviously they did not have access to oranges or lemons! It can be used as a substitute for honey in any recipe calling for honey, drizzled [...]

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Dandelion Hot Cakes

Dandelion Syrup, Edible flower recipe, edible flowers
1 cup white flour
1 cup cornmeal
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
2 eggs
¼ cup oil
½ cup dandelion blossom syrup or honey
2 cups milk
1 cup dandelion blossom petals
1. Mix dry ingredients first.
2. Add wet ingredients and mix together thoroughly
3.  If mixture is too dry, add a little milk. Add flour if too thin.
4.  Cook on [...]

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The 10 Most Popular Edible Flowers

Edible Flowers.
Have you ever eaten flowers?  You have if you’ve eaten broccoli or artichokes.  Broccoli tops are immature flowers and the artichokes are the leaves of the flower.  If you’ve eaten Chinese hot and sour soup, dried day lily petals are the key ingredient.  Herbal teas include mint, chamomile, hibiscus, rose petals or other flowers.
Flower [...]

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