I don’t know about you, but I have the worst time growing anything in the squash, cucumber, and melon family.  I’ll always get loads of flowers, and then disease or bugs will come and take my damned plant, before it can make me any fruit lol.  If you didn’t know already, you can eat watermelon, cucumber, and squash flowers.  Melon and cuke flowers kinda resemble melons/cucumbers in taste, and the cute lil flowers are great to use in salads, or as a garnish to dishes.

The larger squash blossoms are great served stuffed, and even better if deep fried as well. They’re one of my favorite things to make, and I’ll suffer through growing those damned plants, just so I can make stuffed zucchini flowers.  You can buy squash blossoms, sometimes from farmers markets, but I find it’s best to grow them yourself, and pick them fresh, since they degrade in quality rather quickly.  I mainly use male flowers for this, cause I need fruit lol, but you can also use the females, as well.  Just make sure that when you are harvesting them, you keep a bit of the stem attached to the flower.  Also, make sure that if you are eating flowers, that they are free of any pesticides, unless pesticides don’t bother you.

This recipe is pretty easy and quick, and you can play with different herb mixes or mix in some cayenne powder for a lil spice, this is just my favorite combo, and what I always have growing in my garden.  You can also fry them without stuffing them, and of course you can use vegan cheeses and what not, but you know, non vegan here.  Anyway, the key is to prep and stuff your flowers first, before making the batter.  If the club soda goes flat, before you can fry your flowers, then they won’t be as good.  So prep those flowers, preheat that oil, work quickly, and most importantly, enjoy.  Also, I don’t have a photo of the finished product, becauseeeee I always eat them before remembering to take one.  Well I don’t forget, I just like them piping hot, and taking a finished photo always gets in the way of that lol.