Something magical happened in my front garden this year. Last year I planted cherry tomatoes in our front garden. After Halloween I composted our pumpkins in for extra fertilizer. After a winter with a lot of snow, they reseeded themselves and in early summer we discovered tomato plants and pumpkins growing in our garden. Funny enough I tried to grow pumpkins in the past with little luck, no pumpkins but lots of flowers. If I only knew then what I know today: Pumpkin blossoms taste very good and they are easy to prepare.
This is what you need:
12 Pumpkin blossoms
2 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
2/3 cup cracker crumbs
1 cup of goat cheese
This is how you do it:
If you have them in the garden, carefully pick them by the stem; look for bees in the flowers. After picking put them in water and wash them well. Place towel on cooking sheet and let the blossoms dry. Break of stem and snip petal off. Fill each flower with goat cheese.
Put one bowl with cracker crumbs and pepper and salt.
One bowl with cracker crumbs, another bowl with eggs. Dip blossom in eggs and then dip in cracker crumbs. Use grape seed oil or margarine for frying, fry on pumpkins blossom on middle heat. Serve warm
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