cilantro consolation prize

[eub]

When your cilantro bolts too early, as it will do, sniggering visibly -- eat the flowers. They taste not very much like cilantro, but aromatic, and also sweet.

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[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

I had no idea this was such an issue. I planted peas this year, didn't water them, and got about 3 pods. Then I planted some kind of lettuce I got as a giveaway at Pride (??? can't remember the reasoning, growing together as a community?) and am making a point of watering the resultant little sprouts.

[bhudson.livejournal.com]

Just did that with the basil flowers (I just transplanted the damned plants last week!)

Cilantro tastes awful to me, but coriander is fine; I wonder where the flowers are in that continuum.

[mh75.livejournal.com]

heh. don't know if i've eaten the flowers. In parsely they are not as tasty.

Do you think if you were disciplined and actually cut back your cilantro frequently it would not flower so early? My cilantro always flowers, but i'm not disciplined. The basil is somewhat more tolerant, and trimming it can keep it from flowering too early.

[eub.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I started chopping it off as soon as it showed ferny flower-stalk leaves, but maybe that was too late.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

Consolantro.

[eub.livejournal.com]

Hee.

[katybeth]

We will have a flower salad someday.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

I don't recommend marigolds, though they are prominently featured in grocery store flower mixes. Blech.

Nasturtiums, now.... Roses. Dandelions. Arugula. :-)

[katybeth]

chives flowers
rosemary flowers
broccoli flowers (after they've gone to actual flower)

[rubricity.livejournal.com]

My favorite thing to do with Nasturtiums is to take a flower and place a nice ripe raspberry in the center and then eat it. So tasty!

[beaq.livejournal.com]

Nom!

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

:) Sweet to imagine.

I am proud of myself for keeping my little lettuce seedlings alive through the last few days of heat. Hopefully I will be able to encourage them to produce enough for a regular-type salad.

[katharos.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I hadn't tried that, I just waited all the way to coriander seed. I do enjoy eating my violet blossoms while gardening though, and I eat marigolds, but their flavor is more 'interesting' than nice.