Here is an interesting little factoid for you.

Things you can do with sunflowers that you might not think you could do.

Number one, you can eat the entire sunflower head.

This is something I did a couple of days ago with Jacques, my garden assistant, and we had

a great time doing it.

So what you want to do here is you want to grab the sunflower head when it still actually

looks like a proper sunflower with the outer petals still looking great.

The seeds should not be super mature, but they should be formed.

So you don't want it to be over ripe or starting to die off because at that point, the seed

holes are a little bit too hard to make this a worthwhile endeavor.

So cut the head off, then clean off both the ray flower petals or the braked, I think

is their correct botanical term, which are the outside.

It's the thing you think of as the sunflower.

And then you have the disc flowers on the inside.

Each of those are pollinated to form one of the seeds of which there are many in the sunflower

head.

So all of those off, maybe give it a nice little rinse, and then at that point, douse it

in oil.

I used avocado oil, I used some homegrown garlic, and I put it in the oven to broil it,

and I broiled for maybe about two or three minutes.

I had to rotate it a little bit because it wasn't sitting perfectly straight up so that

that seed head is nice and browned.

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