{"id":5410,"date":"2015-08-01T21:34:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T19:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.growntocook.com\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2015-08-01T21:43:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T19:43:15","slug":"seasonal-salad-mid-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growntocook.com\/?p=5410","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal salad – edible flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As you can see in the photo above, a salad does not need to be just green. I have nothing against a green salad, of course. It is what I eat most of the time and I never get tired of it. But sometimes it can be fun to make a crazy colorful salad bowl, especially if you’re serving it to other people.<\/p>\n

I have written about annual edible flowers here<\/a> and here<\/a>, but in this salad I included some other, perhaps less known, but no less tasty, edible flowers.<\/p>\n

What’s in my salad:<\/p>\n

– Romaine lettuce, green and flecked (variety ‘Mottistone’)
\n– oak leaf salad
\n– daylily flowers (Hemerocallis<\/em>) – all daylilies are edible and have more taste than most edible flowers. The taste of different varieties varies, so taste a petal before you pick a bunch to see whether you like it
\n– fennel flowers (Foeniculum vulgare<\/em>) – I like to pick the flowers when they are fully open – they taste (unsurprisingly) fennel-like
\n– dahlia flower petals (Dahlia<\/em>) – I especially like to use the darker colors. The petals are not as strong tasting as daylilies, but nice enough. The tubers are edible, too, but I have not tried them yet.
\n– runner bean flowers (Phaseolus coccineus<\/em>) – a pleasant, faintly bean-like flavor. Do not pick all the flowers though, or you won’t get any beans.<\/p>\n

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Do you have other favorite edible flowers?<\/p>\n

Previous Seasonal salads:<\/p>\n

Seasonal salad\/ weeds<\/a><\/p>\n

\"spring<\/a><\/p>\n

Seasonal salad- early April<\/a><\/p>\n

\"early<\/a><\/p>\n

Seasonal salad – March<\/a><\/p>\n

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As you can see in the photo above, a salad does not need to be just green. I have nothing against a green salad, of course. It is what I eat most of the time and I never get tired…<\/p>\n

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