Last night's dandelion and lilac salad was a success! I will not be facing church discipline or excommunication. I don't know that people will be rushing to recreate it any time soon but everyone tried it and found it surprisingly good. Everyone but Farmer John. Turns out that he doesn't like the smell of lilacs (You think I would know this after 20 years.) and "they taste just like they smell." After he was finished eating there was a little pile of lilac petals on the side of his plate. Seems the dandelions were fine for him though. Next time I'll sneak dandelion greens into it too. I only did the flower heads last night.
Regular vege salad with the addition of edible flowers: Lilacs and Dandelions.
I also used my available flowers in a more traditional sense.
Dandelions flower heads floating in a shallow bowl of water.
Lilacs as the centerpiece of the table.
The other in season item I used for the evening was rhubarb from my garden in a yummy rhubarb crumble topped with homemade vanilla custard!
My rhubarb earlier this spring.
It is so much fun to "use what you've got" and be creative rather then running to the store and buying something.
The only downer to the night was the over abundance of mosquitoes that chased us off the deck and indoors for the evening. Bat houses, homemade natural mosquito sprays and itch remedies will be fodder for another blog post.
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