A simple and well known spice from Brazil, its name means “green scent” or “fresh scent”. It’s made with parsley and chimes all chopped and it is used in a large variety of recipes.

Pickled Cherry Blossoms can be used as garnish or in sweet or savory dishes. The delicate blossoms and leaves are both edible.

This wonderfully healthy and beautifully aromatic recipe is one from my grandmother's treasure of recipes. She makes it for us with the banana flowers obtained straight from her garden. This is a classic Kerala ( state in India) dish. It comes from the concept of not wasting any part of the plant and making use of everything. This dish is generally a side dish along with rice. The thoran is packed with nutrients with ample benefits.

I can't wait for May when the fragrance of elderflowers lies in the air and the wild roses begin to bloom! You know Spring has come, and it's time for this deliciously pink jelly made of wild rose petals and elderflowers. A big family favorite!

This rose petal vinegar is super easy to make. It will keep at least a year, although the color is most intense during the first few months. In addition to using it in a vinaigrette, you can add a few drops to your bathwater, soothe bug bites or relieve the pain of sunburn.

A magical and easy recipe, perfect to gift it to some one you love. In Classical Latin, Lilac is called Syringa vulgaris, in German we call it (Gemeiner) Flieder. It has a lot of health benefits and it smells addictive. #edibleflowers

Nasturtiums taking over your garden? Make pesto! The mustard oils in the leaves and flowers will give your pesto a bright spicy, peppery flavor.

(Edible Flowers Handpicked Design Challenge)

Candied violets are a delicious edible flower. Use them to garnish lemon cupcakes with buttercream frosting.

Edible flowers challenge recipe. Easy rose petal jam, perfect to stuff your "pączek" (donut).

A beautiful Japanese edible flower gelatin recipe

In Germany, Lamium Purpureum blooms outside right now. It's a really pretty plant with tiny blossoms. This sirup is perfect for a fancy cocktail or infused water. Cheers! #edibleflowers

Edible Flower Challenge.

We had both a sedate cat named Daisy and a crazy cat named Mazie. To honor their memory in my garden, I planted crazy daisies. Not only are they pretty (and pretty crazy), they are edible! I found a recipe for spicy daylilies and daisies from ediblewildfood.com, and decided to modify it to only use crazy daisies. They can be used in many ways, including in sandwiches. And since I always try to end a sandwich meal with a pickle, now I can end the meal with a pickled flower instead. No disrespect intended, Daisy and Mazie!

Incidentally, Mazie always liked to "help" me with my many projects, so the stitching for this illustration, real and drawn, was done in her memory.

Making flower infused vinegar is easy and they can be used to make a wonderful and nutritious salad dressing. With a little time, a handful of blossoms or flowers and some good quality vinegar you can have jars strikingly beautiful flavoured vinegar.

Store in a cool, dark place for at least a month before using.You can also infuse vinegar with herbs like thyme, rosemary, tarragon, oregano or sage.

This is my submission for the design challenge - Edible Flowers.
I love to paint flowers, and to combine them with a recipe illustration has been a wonderful experience as I illustrated this DANDELION JELLY. The Dandelion blossoms and leaves are handpainted in watercolours and digitized for this purpose.

Edible Flowers
In Italy, we use to cook the courgette flowers (called "fiori di zucca fritti").
They are easy to make and are great at capturing the spring and summer seasons in their flavors and colors.