FLAVOUR, FRUIT AND FLOWER

Dame's Rocket for a Salad

Rocket Salad

In a fresh salad, added with edible flowers is not only it looks so pretty and appetising but it tastes flavourful and better.  The edible flowers that I use are slightly bitter and hot-pungent, such as rocket flowers, nasturtium, sage flower and borax.

Today I am using the Dame's Rocket Flower for my fresh salad which is going to accompany the meat dish, a simple pan-fried blade steak.
The Dame's Rocket is very easy to grow, but you must observe, it grows invasively.

The dressing for the rocket salad is simple, and here it is.
- lemon juice
- olive oil
- salt

Mix these ingredients together, add in the fresh salad mix-wild rocket, dame's rocket and it's flowers, fresh mint and French sorrel toss them gently.  Serve at once.
(It is better to add the dressing onto the salad mix prior serving)

You could have all mix edible flower salad, and simply drizzle some lemon juice for the dressing.

OTHER  SALADS
A mix of green leaves, bitter lettuce-endive, rockets and the flowers could be made a flavourful salad.

Look at the older posts for this salad recipe.  Type: fresh salad to search.

Tomato and Green Bean Salad

Pomelo Salad

A compost Salad-(radicchio, tomato, greens and egg)

Trancam -(cucumber, mixed greens and carrot)

Spring and Summer are the time to enjoy salads and served with whatever you fancy.  I do serve salads throughout the year because we love the vegetables in any preparation.

Simple baking using fruits, this is what I did, pear sponge with oil. No, I never have done it before and no recipe to follow.  

Pear Sponge

Set the oven to a medium-hot at 175 degrees C

Peel, clean six pears and half

Braise the pear with 2 tablespoons water to soften

Transfer the hot pear to a spicy dish, the juices included

2 cups self-rising flour

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup oil

1/2 cup milk

2 eggs

1 teaspoon natural vanilla essence

(mix these ingredients quickly but lightly) Do not overmix

Pour this cake batter to the hot pear which is sitting in the spicy dish

Sprinkle with almond flakes

Bake in the prepared oven for 40-45 minutes.

This is all ingredients for baking the pear sponge as I remember.

A light hot sponge with pear, a delicious home baking.  Pear is a fruit that has no distinctive flavour, but it makes a deliciously moist cake.

To serve: dust the cake with icing powder, serve hot or cold.

Sharing ideas with you all about Flavoured fresh salads by using edible flowers and fruits for fruit sponge using oil instead of butter.

Another use of flower.

Beautiful Potted Hippeastrum in Full Bloom, Used as Room Divider 

Thank You for Visiting

Susy