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Daria Seri
Breakfast...with calendula....
I'm having a different breakfast today...I'll be eating marigold pancakes
washed down with green tea...bergamot sencha.
washed down with green tea...bergamot sencha.
I am not going to tell you what are the healthy properties
of calendula...no...by now we all have the possibility to inform ourselves in an instant....
of calendula...no...by now we all have the possibility to inform ourselves in an instant....
Marigold, for those who don't know it, is a small plant more or less 15/20 centimeters high, it has delicious orange flowers and delicate little leaves of a deep green from which it emanates a sour and penetrating smell...it grows everywhere...in uncultivated fields...
at the edges of gardens and even on the side of country roads.
at the edges of gardens and even on the side of country roads.
I am not even going to talk about recipes...this is not a recipe column...because we all know how to make a batter...all you need is a little flour, sugar, the grated peel of an untreated lemon, sparkling mineral water or milk or neither...a pinch of baking powder and voila, the batter is made.
When we harvest the marigold flowers, we take them with their stems and leaves and don't even need to wash them...nothing is cleaner than a field...where small insects and microorganisms are always in action to make a thorough and continuous cleaning.
So...we shake them up enough to get rid of straws and ants, chop them into a couple of pieces and toss them into the batter.
With a soup spoon we take the flowers and the leaves
"kneaded" and immerse them in a delicate peanut oil put to heat, remembering that the times are short ... the seed oils, in fact, are quick to come to temperature.
Then we pull them up and lay them on a paper towel, then sprinkle them with a light layer of icing sugar.
I watch the whole thing smoke on a cold February morning....
The marigold blossom pancakes are beautiful to look at and good to eat and... with the tea releasing bergamot scented molecules, I feel that life envelops me as soon as I wake up... a dream for anyone who wants
to try it...
to try it...
Have a nice breakfast ...
Daria
daria@madeinitalybrands.com