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.