Thursday, August 31, 2006

A blossom by any other name...




... would taste as sweet?

On the advice of a friend, and because we planted pumpkins this year, I plucked some pumpkin blossoms and fried them last night.

They were very good. Now let me disclaim at this point that they were bathed in milk and eggs and dredged in crackers and fried in butter, so I suppose it was inevitable that I'd like them.

So I guess fried pumpkin blossoms do indeed have my endorsement, another mild culinary surprise for me. A darned tasty one, to be sure.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Hurray for fried pumpkin blossoms!

Anna said...

Oh, they are soooo wonderful!

Josh Gentry said...

Despite the fact that cardboard would be good in that batter, you gotta love the blossoms.

Anonymous said...

I adore fried pumpkin blossoms!

Doug Haffner said...

Yes. I think it's an excellent show idea. If you come to Peoria, I'll instruct you in the proper preperation of Fecal chips. It requires a whole bunch of butter and more than a little salt...and beer. Lots of beer. I will then show you the proper way to prepare a delicate dish called "Shinola" here in Peoria. We will then see if you can distinguish between the two dishes. :)
You can't fool a fooler. I know nobody actually eats pumpkin blossoms. That can't be true.