I was inspired by a visit to the flower market today. I saw wonderful tulips in all sorts of colours and got very excited about using them again for summer dinner parties.
I also came across this amazing infographic which does a lovely job of summarising popular edible flowers. You’ll find this and lots of other brilliant illustrations at Illustrated Bites
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Wow – never knew you could eat lilac. Great resource
That was a new one on me too
I want to try lilac too. They aren’t in bloom yet in Syracuse, NY…but soon I hope.
I think they’d be lovely sprinkled over a salad or perhaps deep fried whole like fiddlehead fern fritters?
Our local deli sells jars of hibiscus flowers and recommends serving them in glasses of champagne – haven’t tried this yet, but one day…
That tastes awesome! I’ve got a jar of those too. Lovely alcoholly flower when you get to the bottom of the glass!
This is a brilliant guide, I love the info!! Thanks Urvashi xx
You;re welcome. was too up my street not to reblog the image. lovely illustration
I love using lavender and rose petals from my garden but would like to experiment with some more flowers in my baking. These pictures are beautiful and give a lovely guide!
Have you tried geraniums? I made some jelly from it last year. Smelled amazing! Tasted OK but the smell kept me going all autumn as that summer smell!
No I haven’t, but I do grow geraniums in the garden and they are so pretty. I will try some jelly – sounds lovely!
That is one very lovely guide. I use edible flowers as regularly as I can but I’m not aware of everything that might be edible. Luckily I just won a book on cooking with edible flowers, so I’m looking forward to receiving it.
Cool which book?
What’s not to love about edible flowers? I recently made Champagne jelly with hibiscus flowers … although they were bought in a jar in syrup! You have, however, inspired to source them fresh and work them into the recipe. Lovely post. Really. Lovely.
Thank you 🙂