“Maybe they could have used a sugar coating though.”
I find that they have a nice “peppery” taste, so I go “savory” with them. I like them in salads (the leaves, too!) and I like to remove the stamen from the blossom and stuff them with a cream cheese and herb mixture. Yummy!
Another fun thing to do is to get boring old Triscuit crackers, top them with an herbed cream cheese, then chop up a variety of edible flowers (nasturtium, rose petals, violets, calendula, fresh parsley or blossoms from peas) and top the crackers with that.
I had a “Garden Tea Party” for my 40th birthday. All of my female friends and relatives came over and I served a High Tea right in the garden and everything we ate was straight out of the garden. My Mom is a Costume Mistress, so she brought a box of fancy hats and long white gloves and goofy purses and we played “dress up” while we had our tea.
It was a bit of work, but so much fun...my friends can hardly wait the next three years until I’m 50 for a repeat performance. :)
That party sounds like a blast! I love the idea of a tea party, but have never hosted one. I bet my friends would like this.
I may give that a shot, with the flowers on top of the cream cheese. Cheese is my favorite food, so I’ll try it any way it’s prepared.
Whenever I think of triscuits and cream cheese, I think of my daughter around 2 years old. She got out the cheese and triscuits and spread the cheese herself. She managed to get cheese and triscuits on herself and all over the table before we noticed. Normally, I wouldn’t have seen the humor in the big mess, but it was just hilarious that day. We took a few pictures for posterity’s sake :)