FLOWER POWER
On eating flowers.. Apart from the apparent dangers of eating flowers - fertilisers, sprays, bees etc, there are also many joys in flower eating. I was reminded of this when I came upon a bag of early nasturtium flowers at the market. I fell back in time to the 70's, la belle époque , and my caftan-wearing mother sending me to school with nasturtium, cream cheese and ham sandwiches...everyone alse had peanut better! I was embarrased and teased beyond the average measures of childhood cruelty but I did, and still do, defend the delicious peppery taste of nasturtium flowers. We left the market, bag of nasturtium flowers in hand and picnicked under the wisteria in our country garden - nasturtium, cream cheese and ham sandwiches washed down with a large glass of chilled rosé. A sweet moment. Nasturtium, Cream Cheese & Ham Sandwich Good quality sandwich bread Washed nasturtium flowers plus a few leaves Lambs lettuce/ mache Cream Cheese/St Moret Ham Spread cream che...