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Garden Salad

       
             
 

After falling out of favor for many years, cooking and garnishing with flowers is back in vogue once again. Edible flowers can be used in a salad to ad unique flavor. They can be grown separately in flowerpots or planted in the perennial border. For the best flavor, pick flowers at the peak of their blooms.

Make your sald as normal with your favorite ingrediants, then add flowers for a little spice.

 
   
       
 

Nasturtiums - Brightly colored nasturtium flowers, probably the most well known of the edible flowers, have a peppery taste and is often used to give some zing

 
       
  Pansy - Pansies have a slightly sweet green or grassy flavor. If you eat only the petals, the flavor is extremely mild, but if you eat the whole flower, there is a winter, green overtone.  
       
  Queen Anne's Lace - Flavor is lightly carrot like. Great in salads.