Les Fleurs du Meal
Les Fleurs du Meal
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Les Fleurs du Meal
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Post #1 - October 28th, 2007, 2:49 pmLes Fleurs de Meal
Aside from affording me me an opportunity to make a cheap Baudelairen pun, I enjoy eating nasturtiums.
Yesterday at Green City Market, I spotted a box of maybe 20 or so for $4.00, so last night I added them to a salad of microgreens, beets and some of the last heirloom tomatoes from my garden.
Nasturtiums start off with a pleasingly sweet note and close with a lightly peppery tingle.
It’s fun to eat flowers.
"Don't you ever underestimate the power of a female." Bootsy Collins
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Post #2 - October 28th, 2007, 11:19 pmpas mal, Hammond.Man : I can't understand how a poet like you can eat that stuff.
T. S. Eliot: Ah, but you're not a poet.
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Post #3 - October 29th, 2007, 11:12 amDavid Hammond wrote:Aside from affording me me an opportunity to make a cheap Baudelairen pun, I enjoy eating nasturtiums.
Nasturtiums are also incredibly easy to grow (put seed in ground, ignore). We still have armloads of flowers and greens (which are also edible and quite tasty--arugalish, like the flowers) growing all around our place. I forgot to check to see how they were faring after last night's frost, but I'm betting they'll be around for a couple more weeks worth of salads.
Kristen
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Post #4 - October 29th, 2007, 10:44 pmkl5 wrote:David Hammond wrote:Aside from affording me me an opportunity to make a cheap Baudelairen pun, I enjoy eating nasturtiums.
Nasturtiums are also incredibly easy to grow (put seed in ground, ignore). We still have armloads of flowers and greens (which are also edible and quite tasty--arugalish, like the flowers) growing all around our place. I forgot to check to see how they were faring after last night's frost, but I'm betting they'll be around for a couple more weeks worth of salads.
Kristen
Hey Kristen, I'm glad to hear your garden was blooming this year -- I remember we talked about gardening early in the spring, before I had planted a thing and I still had grand plans for a terraced garden (which didn't happen this year). Next year I'll take a crack at nasturtiums..."Don't you ever underestimate the power of a female." Bootsy Collins
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Post #5 - October 31st, 2007, 8:44 amThanks, David. Our second year in, some things went much better, others mysteriously worse than last year. We're learning as we go and it's been fun. But nasturtiums were an unmitigated success this year and will probably cover even more acreage next year. Marigolds (also edible) were fantastic as well. Attractive + beneficial + easy to grow = probably will get planted again next year.
Kristen
