Cooking with Flowers

Today, super handsome Chef Diego Bongiovanni, author of the cookbook Ricette con i Fiori, taught us recipes incorporating the use of flowers.

Last week when Chef Diego showed us how to fashion a potato into a flower, I thought, "That won't fly in Texas, they will mash that little work of art and pour gravy on it." But Chef Diego is doing some interesting things which stretch my thinking. Whether in food or life, that's a good thing.

This photo is of hollow balls of white chocolate filled with a light cream infused with a sauce of rose petals.

Here is video of Chef Diego opening the chocolate for serving.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8Ubzpd5bvs&feature=youtube_gdata_player