
Friday random
Friday always seems like the perfect random sort of day to me.
Does it to you?
I mean, the weekend is almost here, and anything can happen. I love the weekend! I bet you do too.
Friday evening usually finds me right, here at home, on the front porch. Admiring the flowers.
I’m not much of a party girl.
Speaking of flowers…
The very short, almost ephemeral, season of the flowering black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) is upon us. Don’t blink. It only lasts a week or so.
The thing is that the flowers are just so out of this world delicious as fritters!
My favourite batter is as follows:
1 cup flour
2 Tbs sugar
pinch of salt
1 egg
2/3 C milk
1/4 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp fragrant rum (I use Czech rum)
Olive oil for frying
Dredge the flower clusters in the batter, or, strip the flowers from the stems and mix into the batter, then, spoon into the oil.
Fry a few minutes till golden brown, drain a few minutes on paper towel, sprinkle with sugar/icing sugar, EAT!
Oh my gosh, there’s something about eating flowers that makes one feel like a Goddess. Like Venus and Athena on Mt Olympus! My friend Katie and I shared these fritters and we didn’t even touch the brownies!
Out of the world delicious!
Don’t confuse black locust with laburnum though. Laburnum is poisonous!
I know, now it feels like a sort of Russian roulette, but laburnum blossoms are yellow and black locust are white…go figure.
Tuesday I taught the therapy journal and, while my students were busy finding the perfect words to describe the day, I carved a couple of stamps. I love carving stamps and love stamping the resulting carving to see what I got! Such a thrill. Then, my students are welcome to use those stamps Win, win!
Since last Sunday night and the fresh pizzas I’m so not over them. This one with beef pepperoni, mushrooms, red onions, tomatoes, parsley, mozza! OMG!
And last random, roses! Roses and roses and roses!
Bunches and bunches and armloads of roses!
Ever since I read Martha Stewart’s gardening book and that her husband gifted her with umpteen rose bushes for mother’s day I thought, well then, all I have to do is move to the country and Robbie will be so happy to gift me umpteen rose bushes. But I’m here in the city, so I can’t even begin to tell you how wonderful it is to have, (over these five years in my small city garden,) cultivated enough rose bushes to just be able to go out in the garden and clip as many of the blossoms as I like.
I love roses.
But I still want to move to the country to grow so many rose bushes that it borders on an obscene amount!
Sharing with Nancy and the random bunch.
Eileen
Hello, your flowers are just gorgeous. I could sit with my wine and enjoy the lovely gardens too. The fritters and the pizza looks delicious. Happy Friday, enjoy your weekend!
Veronica
Oh those fritters and the fresh pizza! Now I’m hungry again! 😀 Happy Friday to you too Eileen.
DeniseinVA
Oh my goodness, love your photos. The food looks delicious and thank you for the recipe. Loved your flowers also. I would like to invite you to join my meme, Today’s Flowers. The address is
http://anenglishgirlrambles2016.blogspot.com/2016/05/todays-flowers-409-may-20th-2016.html
Thank you for considering.
Veronica
Hi Denise, thank you for the invite, I’ll pop over and have a look. 😀
daryledelstein
yum yum and oh so lovely flowers eaten or just viewed … i think this weekend i will finally get some flowering plants for my window box …
Veronica
Hooray. I’ve been watching the spring slowly creep over New York. It’s really taken its sweet time! 😀
Snap
Your flowers/roses are gorgeous. Fritters! Yum! and the pizza looks good too. Dreams are good — enjoy yours! Love the carved stamps. Some day I’m going to try carving. Have a fun filled week!
Veronica
Carving is so much fun and really easy if you buy the Speedball materials. And, with Michael’s perpetual 40% off coupons, it’s pretty cheap too. You should try it.
Maggid
YOU may say “Common Magic” – BUT, i insist your work is something divine . . . Beautiful – Beautiful
thanks
Veronica
Oh gosh, thank you so much Maggid. 😀
Debra She Who Seeks
Flower fritters? Amazing!
Veronica
Yes! Can you imagine? One can eat loads of flowers you know. My grandmother used to fritter elder flowers. I love those too. 😀
Dana Fulton
Veronica…I love your photos and OMG! Your roses! Here is yet another thing we have in common. In our early years of marriage when money was especially tight Jack would randomly surprise me with a lovely single rose. It always made my heart smile but it was extravagant. So four years into our marriage when we bought this house and had several acres to play with Jack bought me a huge, beautiful book on roses and inscribed it with a promise of many roses to come. Now, instead of gifting me with a single rose or a bouquet of roses, he buys me a rose bush so I will have the memory but also dozens of roses at my beck and call. I love that so much.
Thank you for sharing, my friend. Here’s wishing you a great, relaxing, rejuvenating weekend!
Veronica
You lucky, lucky girl to have all that acreage for roses. I have almost an acre in England but a small city garden here in Vancouver. Still I cram as many roses in as I can! By the way, husband is such a keeper! 😀
Barb
Your roses are so lovely. My mother grew an obscene amount, and people would drive by to look at them. Unfortunately, I can’t grow any at high altitude. Reading your post has made me very, very hungry!
Veronica
Oh no Barb! Lol, quick cup of tea and a little toast should help. 😀 Too bad about the high altitude/rose interface, but I bet there are loads of beautiful flowers you can grow.
Vicki
What a wonderful post! And those roses are exquisite! I will join you out there on the porch with a glass of vino, in less than 1 hour…ALOHA!
Veronica
You are so welcome! Just bring your own wine. 😉
Julie@frogpondfarm
OMG .. Roses, pizza, flower fritters … I’ll be right over 😉 Hugs