Blossoming

[lillibet]

I've been really enjoying the Arlington farmers market this year. One of the things I like about it is that it narrows my choices without forcing them. Today, for example, one of the stands had squash blossoms. I've enjoyed them in restaurants, but never made them at home and our dinner guest this evening enjoys experiments, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity. I basically followed this recipe, although I did add prosciutto into the filling. Deep frying always seems like such a waste of oil and I doubt I would do it again any time soon, but it did work just fine. I think in the future I would try using a much smaller amount of oil and seeing how that goes. Also, one egg and about 1/4 cup of flour would be plenty. But overall, very tasty, and pretty simple.

Comments

[starphire.livejournal.com]

Yum!
I've sometimes tried to grow healthy enough squash plants that I could afford to part with some to do this, but I never succeeded. Squash plants apparently don't like me, because they grow like weeds for everyone else who plants them.

[tcb.livejournal.com]

yay!

goat has been enjoying the farmers markets, too! all sorts of wonderful veggies come home with her. speaking of, we should start the scheduling dance when we get back from the Cape!

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

Definitely! We're going to be doing a bunch of travelling in late August/September so getting something on the calendar would be good.

Have fun on the Cape!