What is growing on everyone? Kevin from Epic Gardening here. We're back with B of Floricococina and today we're talking finally probably. You've all been waiting for this moment. I certainly have about how to cook with

edible flowers and so we're going to start off with just a couple general

guidelines because flowers are certainly a little different than cooking with a potato, right?

Potatoes are a very hardy, root crop and you can do quite a bit with it.

Flowers, a little bit more delicate. And so Bee's going to talk a little bit

about that and we're going to feature a particular flower. So stay

tuned for that. Hey good to be back. So yeah like Kevin touched on I think flowers

in general what you're going to be growing in your gardens and what you're likely to find at say a Whole Foods grocery

They're more delicate and those are good used on top of soups to to pull out flavors from your soup or in salads. They make a beautiful addition and it's very

flavorful. But in terms of cooking, one of the flowers I like a lot in my savory and warm dishes is lavender.

So lavender if you want to think of it as rosemary really. So anything you're going to be tending to grab Rosemary to highlight.

Lavender can be put in place of that. So it's got sort of a piney flavor. It's

assertive so you can use it. It'll stand up to root vegetables. It'll stand up to

roasted meats and that sort of thing.

Great in soups.

So my general rule of thumb with lavender is

I'm going to use the flower, the little petals off the branch and I like to crunch them up

whether they're dried or fresh I like to crush them a little bit to release

the essential oils and then I'm gonna put it into my dish. So you can use it as a finishing or you can use it as you would the rosemary or any other herb. So you can cook the whatever dish you're preparing with the lavender itself.

You can also take the lavender and bring it into softer, sweeter things,

but generally that's my go-to herb for savory dishes.

Awesome. Are there any other little random herbs or flowers for savory

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