Tuesday eating from your yard tip~violet leaves and flowers are edible and high in Vitamin C & A. I add violet leaves and flowers to my lunch salad. The flowers make a lovely edible garnish on fruit salads, soups, desserts, drinks or frozen in ice cubes. Before commercial food coloring, dark purple violet flowers were used to color food. There are endless possibilities for violet simple syrup over fruit or shaved ice, in alcohol, homemade marshmallows and other desserts etc. Karalyn Neville candies the flowers by painting egg whites on the flowers and sprinkles them with sugar then allows them a day to dry. You can also wilt the greens in a stir fry or add them to your baked egg dish. We can’t forget violet jelly and violet infused vinegar. How do you eat violets???
– Jill Kuhel
