Flowers of Calendula officinalis will brighten your day, no matter how gray. These come from a small patch growing next to my garlic. You will soon see a photo showing their bright orange color. I like how taking the brilliant hue off higlights the delicate texture of the petals.
In my "stained glass" maltagliati, I press nasturtium petals together with the dough. Above, I am about to knead calendula petals into the dough. What's the result?
Go to the post: sagne incannulate with calendula petals to find out
Check also this post for more on cooking with flowers.
The photos are my contribution to edition #88 of Black and White Wednesday - A Culinary Photography Event created by Susan of The Well-Seasoned Cook, now organized by Cinzia of Cindystar, and hosted this week by Sreevalli of Ammaji Recipes.
The photos were shot in color and then converted to black and white (Lightroom prese B&W Look 1) the top one and to sepia (Lightroom preset Sepia Tone) the bottom one.
This post contains the gallery of images contributed to the event.
Lovely in black & white; lovely textures.
Posted by: Paz | June 16, 2013 at 11:24 AM
Thank you, Paz.
Posted by: Simona Carini | June 17, 2013 at 12:23 PM
can't wait to see what you are making
:-)
Lovely photos
baciusss
Posted by: brii | June 18, 2013 at 10:27 AM
Thank you, Brii. Hopefully in time for this week WHB.
Posted by: Simona Carini | June 18, 2013 at 04:12 PM
Simona, Nice to see use of flowers in pasta dough, I checked your images of nasturtium petals pressed in dough, that looks so amazing. I will check back your post.
Posted by: Usha | June 20, 2013 at 07:32 AM
Thank you, Usha. I will soon write a post with some details. It is fun to work with flowers in the kitchen.
Posted by: Simona Carini | June 22, 2013 at 04:46 PM