Re: Borage, anyone?

Borage uses:
Cooking: use in casseroles, cabbage, spinach, finely chopped leaves in
salad and soft cheese, flowers in salad, wine punch, crystallize for cake
decorations.
Floral arrangements: summer bouquet of flowers, wreaths.

Enjoy.
Bonnie Zone 6+ ETN
holmesbm@usit.net



> [Original Message]
> From: cathy carpenter <cathyc@rnet.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 08/05/2003 7:00:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Borage, anyone?
>
> The key to using the leaves is to harvest them very young. They have a 
> flavor reminiscent of cucumber. They can be used in salads, and minced 
> and mixed with cream cheese for a spread on crackers. Will see if I can 
> unearth any other recipes.
> Cathy
> On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 04:22 PM, Aplfgcnys@aol.com wrote:
>
> > I just got into my garden again today for the first time in 2 1/2 
> > weeks.
> > What a mess! Things are not growing well at all, with this crazy 
> > weather, and
> > lack of attention has not helped a bit.  The one thing that is doing 
> > well is
> > borage.  I planted seeds a couple of years ago when my garden club was 
> > having an
> > edible flowers workshop, just for the pretty blue blooms that were 
> > supposed to
> > look good in salads, etc.  Had just a few plants, not with a very few 
> > blooms.
> > Didn't pay much attention to it.  Last year there one plant came back, 
> > had a
> > few flowers, again didn't pay much attention to it.  This year there 
> > is borage
> > everywhere I look.  Huge, succulent, floppy plants with brittle stems 
> > an inch
> > thick that would stand three feet high except that they flop and 
> > spread.
> > Great huge thick bunches of flowers.  I pulled out a couple of bushels 
> > of it
> > today and barely made a dent.  Does anyone else grow this?  What good 
> > is it?  I
> > asked at my club meeting and no one seemed to have an idea of anything 
> > to do
> > with it except put the flowers on things.  I made a nice poached 
> > salmon with dill
> > sauce for our annual pot-luck dinner and covered it with the blue 
> > flowers.
> > Looked pretty, but they don't have much flavor.  The leaves are so 
> > hairy that
> > they wouldn't be nice in salads.  Someone said you could use them in 
> > soup, but
> > I haven't a recipe.
> >   I know this group does not specialize in vegetable gardens - we 
> > discussed
> > that last year - but you do know everything, so maybe someone has a 
> > suggestion.
> >  The stuff is so rampant, it seems there should be some use for it.
> > Auralie
> >
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