Eat Your Roses - Pansies, Lavender, and 49 Other Delicious Edible Flowers

Roses are Red Violets are Blue... You can have your flowers and eat them too!In "Eat Your Roses," author Denise Schreiber introduces 52 of her favorite edible flowers, their culinary uses and special "sense appeal." A passionate flower eater and award-winning cook, Denise presents dozens of playful, mouth-watering recipes (from appetizers to desserts to fragrant liqueurs). Get ready to discover calendula corn muffins...and that ultimate floral treat: rose petal ice cream! "Eat Your Roses is filled with fascinating recipes to turn beautiful garden blooms into surprising and unforgettable dishes. Be sure to try the pineapple guava smoothie."Doug Oster, author of "Tomatoes Garlic Basil" "Eat Your Roses demystifies the culinary preparations of edible flowers. Whether it's an annual, a perennial or even a weed, Denise shows you what can be done. I especially recommend the nasturtium bundles!"Lisa Marini Finerty, "YourGardenShow.com" "A fresh, fun and interesting approach to not only using flowers from the garden, but the joy of concocting them into creative, delicious dishes...(if you don't like the flower in the garden you can have it for lunch!)"Stephanie Cohen, "The Perennial Diva"
Co-author of "The Nonstop Garden"

List of contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

 

Rules for eating edible flowers

 

What flowers are non-edible?

 

Gathering edible flowers & preparing them for use

 

50 Edible flowers (who’s who and what to do with them)

 

Recipes

Butters

Sugars & Syrups

Drinks

Accents

Appetizers, Savories & Side dishes

Soups

Salads

Entrees

Desserts

 

Resources

 

Index

 

Acknowledgments

 

About the Author

About the author

Denise Schreiber

Summary

This light-hearted, full-color illustrated gift book balances edible flower history and lore with proper handling and preparation techniques, and 50+ recipes (from appetizers and drinks to main dishes and desserts). Eat Your Roses shows us how to look beyond the veggie patch for great food ideas, and check out our flowerbeds. Hardcover with concealed wire binding. Full-color photos throughout.

Additional text

“Eat Your Roses is filled with fascinating recipes to turn beautiful garden blooms into surprising and unforgettable dishes. Be sure to try the pineapple guava smoothie.”
Doug Oster, author of Tomatoes Garlic Basil

Product details

Authors	Denise Schreiber
Publisher	Ingram Publishers Services
Languages	English
Product format	Spiral bound
Released	02.06.2011
EAN	9780981961552
ISBN	978-0-9819615-5-2
No. of pages	104
Dimensions	151 mm x 185 mm x 19 mm
Illustrations	Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
Subjects	Guides > Food & drink > Healthy cuisine, light cuisine; COOKING / Health & Healing / General, Health & wholefood cookery, COOKING / Specific Ingredients / Natural Foods, Health and wholefood cookery

Product details

• Authors: Denise Schreiber
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Spiral bound
• Released: 02.06.2011
• EAN: 9780981961552
• ISBN: 978-0-9819615-5-2
• No. of pages: 104
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 185 mm x 19 mm
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > Healthy cuisine, light cuisine; COOKING / Health & Healing / General, Health & wholefood cookery, COOKING / Specific Ingredients / Natural Foods, Health and wholefood cookery