Edible Flowers Make Beautiful Presentations Easy Using edible flowers to add color and interesting shapes to your dishes is very easy. Position them on your plates, use them to decorate cakes or cupcakes, toss them in salads, or use them to build a display on one of your serving platters. Techniques Suitable for Most Flowers …

Squash blossoms (aka zucchini blossoms) are an edible flower popular amongst fine dining chefs as a natural wrapper for pan fried and deep fried fillings. Stuffed Squash Blossom Recipes to Try: Cheese Stuffed Squash Blossom Recipes: Ricotta, Herb & Lemon Squash Blossoms Goat Cheese, Almond, Cranberry & Honey Squash Blossoms Goat Cheese, Pine Nut, Orange …

Stuffing squash blossoms is one of the most common ways these delicious edible flowers are prepared.  Usually the filling has a cheese base, you can probably use any ricotta-based ravioli filling recipe for squash blossoms. Chefs most often use a pasty or piping bag, but you if you don’t have one on hand you could put the filling in …

How to Candy Flowers Flowers add bright color to desserts, cakes, and other plates.  For dishes where a little extra sweetness would be welcome, a great trick to increase their visual appeal is to candy them (candied flowers are also known as sugar glazed flowers or sometimes “crystallized flowers”).  Candying flowers is extremely easy as …

These crispy squash blossoms, filled with a creamy cheese filling spiked with fresh orange zest and pine nuts, really shine when finished with a light dusting of fennel pollen. This version of the filling has a strong orange & nutty flavor with a very light goat cheese tang.  If you want to increase the goat cheese …

(includes cocktail mixer recipes) Though they can also be used as an exciting garnish, salad ingredient, or in frozen desserts, Szechuan Buttons (aka Sichuan Buttons) excel as the cocktail mixer of the future, and a lot of cutting edge mixologists are experimenting with them as we speak.  Most often the tiny yellow/brown petals are used (pinched off …

Elegant and beautiful, this gelee adds jewel-like shine, white wine & lemon flavor and the delicate appearance of edible flowers to fresh oysters on the half shell. Drink Pairing: Champagne Ingredients:                Makes Enough for 2 Dozen Oysters Borage Flowers or Micro Orchids 1 1/2 Gelatin Sheets 1 cup Sparkling White Wine (we used Cremant), at …

Zucchini/squash blossom fillings don’t need to be savory.  This filling plays with two different tart notes (the goat cheese and cranberries), adds a small amount of almonds for body and a little extra crunch, and then smoothes everything together with the richness of honey. If you want to highlight one flavor or another, feel free …

The juxtaposition of the light-textured shrimp mousse with the satisfying crunch of its tempura-fried squash blossom wrapper makes this a seafood appetizer that looks & tastes classy, but is surprisingly easy to make. The tempura batter recipe makes quite a lot, so you’ll have extra to make tempura-fried green beans, fresh maitake mushrooms, sliced carrots, sweet potatoes, or even shiso …

What’s better than risotto?  “Nothing!” we hear you scream. Not so fast.  We think we’ve managed to find a way to make it even tastier, even more decadent (although perhaps not as decadent as our white alba truffle risotto recipe), and give it a crispy crust: stuff it in a squash blossom and fry it! …