All about flowers and gifts

Vegetarians and people who keep healthy life-style can expand the diet due to not only beautiful, but also nutritious flower which grow in the garden.
Everybody knows that it is possible to prepare good salad from dandelions and to make tasty jam from rose petals. But in the world there is a huge set of flowers, petals, leaves and stalks which use for preparation of various dishes already during many centuries.

Rose

   For certain, rose is the most known and favorite flower in the world. There are thousand grades and hybrids of this beautiful and fragrant flower. Its culinary properties depend on various factors, including a sort of ground and temperature. Therefore, before to consume in food the flowers grown up in various climatic conditions, it is recommended to try their petals.
You can cut off bottom part of a petal if it is bitterfish or to eat only top part.
There are a lot of dishes seasoned with rose petals. Try to put them in salad together with crushed nuts and cheese. The petals of red roses can be added in favorite sauce to give colors and taste. And still the petals of roses cut by strips; it is possible to strew spaghetti. Roses also introduce special taste in ice-cream and drinks.  

Pumpkin flowers

  There are facts that aboriginals used pumpkins flowers like food in XVI century in Northern and South America. It is necessary to remove prickly leaves before cooking pumpkin flowers.Some gourmets eat also pestles of flowers. Mix pumpkin flowers with olive oil, fresh corn and the pumpkin and you get pleasant taste in snack and soups. But especially popular are considered roasted flowers with a small amount of onions, garlic and addition of various seasonings.
It is possible to fill also flowers with a mix from cheese, an onions and spices, to dip them into weight from the shaken eggs, then roll them dried crust breadcrumbs and fry in oil. The taste is unforgettable! So is written in culinary books.

Pansies

    Pansies (Viola wittrockiana) have special dark spots on petals. Pansies are a version of a violet three-colored (Viola tricolor), having violet, white and yellow colors. The wild flowers also are edible, but not in lots as that it is possible to be poisoned.
These flowers give to dishes the special taste and decorate vegetable and fruit salads. For this purpose it is possible to use whole flower, decorating a dish directly ahead of submission on a table (already after in a dish are added sauce and seasonings).
One more edible flower from sort Viola is a Viola odorata which perfectly fits to desserts and drinks. All other violets are not used in cookery.

Day-lily

   This plant is sort of Hemerocallis.  it has long  thin stalk with set of leaves at the basis. There are about 15 sorts of this flower which is widespread moderate-warm areas of Southeast Asia. Most sorts of day-lily are cultivated as ornamental plants. The color of flowers of this plant varies from yellow up to red. Day-lily uses for cooking as seasoning to food.
You can stew a flower a little bit and table as vegetables. If you mix day-lily petals with vegetables and roast it you would get original vegetable ragout. Decorate the dish with whole flower.

Whether you know what people rose plant already more than 5 thousand years? But nature improves this flower of 35 million years! The ancient Greeks esteemed any manifestation of beauty and have a lot of legends about an origin of this divine flower.They say that the rose was born from the snow-white foam covered a body of the Aphrodite when the goddess of love has left after bathing the sea.Priests of the Aphrodite have taken down a white rose in a temple of the goddess and have decorated an altar and surrounding garden. There the rose remained white until heart of the Aphrodite has not been hurt by an awful message that the Adonis loved by her lays in grove to death wounded by a wild boar.Goddess rushed to him in despair. She ran and didn’t pay attention to covering roses thorns and wounded severely legs. Some drops of divine blood have got on flowers and from white they have turned in brightly red.
There are many legends about rose and everywhere roses are blood and love.
In England two peace roses - scarlet and white, became a symbol of the fratricidal war continued of 30 years. Subsequently English gardeners have grown up the special rose where scarlet and white flowers grow on the same bush.
Red rose - one of emblems of the Valentine’s Day. It is beginning from time when Louis XVI had presented Maria-Antoinette red roses in this day.
Where is love there unfaithfulness happen as well. Symbol of unfaithfulness is a yellow rose.
When great prophet Mohammed waged war with Israelites his wife Aisha has sworn fidelity. But Aisha has been slandered. When Mohammed had comes back he doubted of her. He ordered of the wife to put red rose in a fountain: if it will not change color that means that Aishais innocent. However to her horror the rose became yellow. And since then began to consider, that yellow rose warns us of unfaithfulness.
Nevertheless Aisha coped to prove his guiltlessness. The fact of change has not been confirmed and the Allah has justified it. So the yellow rose simply says lies. Do not trust it.