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Sunny Days and Marmalade Meringue Tarts

24th January 2015 By Urvashi Roe

It’s been almost Spring like today.  I woke up before the sun and sat with a cup of tea watching it come up over the garden.  A rare opportunity with children in the house. I’ve been distracted by the sky ever since.  It’s been so vividly blue I couldn’t help stopping and staring out into […]

Filed Under: Sweet Tagged With: baking, cooking, flower, food, fruit, marmalade, seville orange marmalade

Nasturtiums and Nhoque da Sorte

29th June 2014 By Urvashi Roe

We didn’t plant any nasturtiums at all this year.  Totally forgot. But the beautiful blooms have come up all on their own in the same place and randomly across the patch.  They seem to know what needs company as a little bloom appeared right next to the Firestorm Runner Beans last week and a little sprout […]

Filed Under: Pasta Tagged With: Allotment, Brazil, cooking, flower, food, nasturtiums, Nhoque da Sorte, Noquis, Uruguay

A Guide To Edible Flowers

27th April 2013 By Urvashi Roe

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 […]

Filed Under: Random Thoughts Tagged With: edible flowers, flower, infographic

Spring flowers – just in time to eat!

2nd April 2012 By Urvashi Roe

I’m so excited to see all the Spring flowers coming into bloom.  Hopefully the snow forecast this week won’t wipe them out.  Did you know that a lot of these are edible? Let’s start with tulips.  Here’s a recipe I tried out from Great British Chefs which uses tapioca, mushrooms, sugar snap peas and spring […]

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: baking, chrysanthemum, Dandelion, edible flowers, flower, lavender, sunflower, Tulip

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