Saturday, September 29, 2012

Spring, flowers, and quinoa


I like flowers.


Flowers in my garden, to decorate the statues. 


Flowers to use for work.



Flowers of sugar, made by Arantxa to use for a school project.




Flowers in my quinoa


Quinoa with flowers

Ingredients
1 cup quinoa
2 cups water
1 small carrot
1 small cucumber
1 bunch onion weed (or spring onions)
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
juice from half a lemon
salt and pepper to taste
edible flowers

Cook one cup of quinoa with two cups of water for 20 minutes. In the meantime chop very finely a small carrot, a small cucumber and a bunch of onion weeds (or spring onions). Put the still hot quinoa into a serving bowl, add two tbsp of extra virgin olive oil, the chopped vegetables, the juice of half a lemon and salt and pepper to taste. This dish can be served warm or cold (yes, even if it has cucumber it can be served warm!). Just before serving add edible flowers: I used onion weed flowers, marigold, violets and bok choy flowers.




Photos and Recipes by Alessandra Zecchini ©

15 comments:

  1. Oh yes..you are enjoying your Spring! While our leaves are falling.
    Your sugar flowers are stunning. Hugs for a great weekend.

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    1. My daughter made the sugar flowers, she is doing two terms of cooking at school and the assignment this term was cupcakes! Lucky her, I never had a chance to do cupcakes at school!

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  2. Che meraviglia.. colori, delicatezza.. una manualità e un senso poetico veramente invidiabile! I miei complimenti, di cuore! Un abbraccio!

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  3. ma nel tuo giardino hai quella statua lì??? la vorrei pur io!!! m'ha catturato...ebbene, fiori. io però tendo a lasciarli nella terra, l'unico uso che ne faccio è da essiccati...però la tua quinoa è spettacolare!

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  4. Si ho un po' di statue in giardino, 3 le ho comprate a Bali, anni fa, sono speciali e gli offro spesso dei fiori.
    Mi piace lasciare i fiori in giardino ma anche portarli in casa e usarli sempre e come posso, soprattutto se mangiabili :-).

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  5. Non ho mai assaggiato dei fiori edibili, ma nonostante tutto l'unione con la quinoa mi attira parecchio ^__^! E complimenti per il set fotografico è bellissimo *O*!

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  6. Quella foto veramente sembrava un po' hippy, per fortuna ho un fotografo molto paziente, e che poi mangia tutto volentieri, quindi sopporta le mie stramberie stilistiche. :-)

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  7. Having such interesting school projects almost makes you want to go back to school again, doesn't it?! Or maybe not!! Quinoa looks healthy and delicious!!

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  8. I don't think that I would like to go to school again, especially here where you wear uniforms :-). Still, they do have some interesting subjects!

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  9. It's so lovely that you can use the beautiful flowers from your garden. I have never heard of quinoa. I will have to explore.

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  10. The sugar flowers are beautiful Alessandra, clever daughter! I like to present dishes with fresh garnishes but sadly don't have the patience for real art

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  11. The flowers just finish the dishes of so perfectly. Have a good week Diane

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  12. Nice Recipe with fresh flower decoration. Feeling so excited to try this one. i thought flowers can only be gifted or used for decoration. You gave a new avenue with fresh flowers.

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