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Edible Flowers
If you have a garden there is nothing more satisfying than to be able to step outside your home to pick fresh produce for your dinner. But if you've only been harvesting your vegetable garden, you've missed a wonderful opportunity to add both edible and visual excitement to your menus by adding flowers to your meals.
Flowers can be added in numerous ways. They can be simply used as garnishes, mixed in salads or, in the case of zucchini flowers, stuffed, fried and used as an appetizer.
When you do this, be sure to check that your flowers are indeed edible and not poisonous. In addition, if you spray pesticides on your flowers, don't use them. Finally, look them over carefully for any potential protein additions to your dinner (bugs!)
Here are a few of your possibilities: roses, zucchini flowers, hibiscus and marigolds.
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