Recipes
Healthy breakfast with homemade granola and Oxalis
Combine the granola with fresh yoghurt or curd cheese, fruit and the fresh apple-like taste of Oxalis triangularis flowers and leaves.
Basil lime ice cream
‘When you make your own ice cream, it is fun to experiment with different flavours. Ice cream made with fruit or chocolate is always tasty, but you may want to try our basil lime ice cream too. Nicely fresh on the palate. A real summer treat!’
Savoury snack with fresh figs and edible violets
‘Lovely seasonal product with edible violets’
Appetizer with Tropaeolum
Meringue with blueberries, raspberries and edible violets
‘It is lovely to harmonize the colour of the violets with the colour of the fruit’
Water with edible flowers: Agastache and Calendula
Put a few sprigs of Agastache and a Calendula flower in a carafe of water.
This way, the water will get a subtly fresh taste: a mixture of aniseed and liquorice.
The longer you leave the Agastache sprig in the water, the stronger the taste will get.
Homemade ice tea with golden marigold
'Homebrewed ice tea can be bought in more and more places nowadays. The good thing about this tea is that it is not as sweet as ready-made ice tea and therefore it is much healthier. The flowers of Tagetes tenuifolia (golden marigold) have a citruslike taste. Nicely fresh for using it in homemade tea.’
Homemade pizza with Tropaeolum
‘A tasty pizza with cheerful Tropaeolum flowers’
Couscous salad with flowers of Calendula
‘The orange Calendula flowers combine excellently with the oriental ingredients of the couscous salad’
Nigella Lawson’s brownies with edible violets
‘The intense chocolate flavour combines beautifully with the raspberry, the edible violet provides the finishing touch, both in look and in taste’
Basil butter
‘A nice herb butter on a freshly baked bun, so simple, so tasty! Try making your own herb butter and taste the difference.’
A quick and easy recipe for a tasty herb butter. The only thing you should not forget, is to take the butter out of the fridge a half hour before preparation.
Cold cucumber soup with flowers of Borage
Icecubes with violets
‘Lovely in a drink, looks cheerful and festive’
Goat cheese lollipops with Calendula flowers petals
‘The soft taste of goat cheese goes well with the mildly spicy taste of Calendula’
Sandwich with Tropaeolum flowers and leaves
Pesto made with Tropaeolum and cashew nuts
Quickly made summer fruit skewers with cornflowers
‘‘A skewer with summer fruit and Centaurea cyanus flowers as a lovely little side disch or a dessert.’
Cupcakes topped with merengue and edible flowers
‘Shiny merengue with cheerful violets on a cupcake’
Lunch waffles with egg, avocado and Tropaeolum majus.
These waffles are perfect for a relaxed lunch. And are ready in a minute. A really lovely combination of ingredients. The leaves and flower buds of Tropaeolum majus will complete your dish. No waffle iron? No worries! You can easily use a grill pan for making nice ‘waffle pancakes’ with the same batter.
Cucumber panna cotta with Borage
This is a really fresh recipe and nice to make with cucumbers and Borage from your own garden!