'D.L. simply refuses to eat beauty. It's defilement.'

[squirmelia]

I just ate a petal. A fried petal. I've got this sort of happy twinge in the chest but I'm hoping the petal wasn't poisonous. It tasted like paper really, but sweeter. I looked at flowers, stared at them, and thought, no, I can't eat those, and then did, as if eating flowers was my greatest fear that I have conquered, and am now feeling some kind of relief. Or maybe I should worry about that gnawing inside, or shouldn't have sprinkled nutmeg on the petal, so that I got a complete pure petal taste. Will I eat more
petals? Possibly, I've heard they can be addictive, plus there's so many different varieties to try.

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[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

Two years ago I had the lunch ritual, which involved avocados and rose petals. Rose petals taste different to the way they smell, though, and rose-petal wine isn't very nice. I have marigolds, lavender and limeflowers in bags from the local spice shop and I made an ill-fated dessert with them once.
I need to try nettle tea.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

I need to try nettle tea.

Imagine the flavour of garden mint. Fresh, herbaceous, slightly resinous perhaps.

Imagine the flavour as it dries, adding woody notes.

Imagine this flavour infusing in hot water, the gradual increase in tannin as the liquor oxidises.

Imagine all this without the mint flavour. That's nettle tea.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

I'd certainly recommend nettle soup - it's worth it just for the texture.

I eat tulips

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Were they fried rose petals? I couldn't find any roses to fry, so ended up with tulip petals captured from the park. Actually, taking them from the park probably wasn't such a good idea, and I wasn't entirely sure they were tulips.

Re: I eat tulips

[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

They were dried rose petals, from the middle eastern supermarket down the road which sells megapacks of such things in its spices section. Suddenly I found myself with a vat of halva, more peppercorns than I knew what to do with and more rese petals than I have thus far been able to eat....

Re: I eat tulips

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I saw packets of dried wild chrysanthemums today.

[lzz.livejournal.com]

Nasturtiums are nice. Slightly peppery.