Yellow wild sweetness

 The other day my Friend from America (thank you Pippi!) posted this recipe on Facebook. As I have plenty of dandelions growing in what we call the Little Orchard - a part of our garden where we don't cut the grass and let the wild flowers glow freely - I couldn't resist not to give it a go. Last Sunday morning Junior and I went for a walk  and had fun gathering the gold flowers in to  a little basket. Then we made a mess in the kitchen :D The shortbread were delicious!

I will however make some changes in the recipe next time I'm going to bake these cookies:
- you really don't want to use brown flour! you won't see the petals in it once the cookies are baked :( and it doesn't need to be rice flour, ordinary white wheat flour works just fine.
- you don't want to use brown sugar for the same reason. I used brown muscovado cane sugar and it made the pastry even darker
- to my taste there is too much sweetness so I will use either the honey OR sugar, not both together

I know, it's not a typical post you would expect to see in a blog with "permaculture" in the title :) but I will write here about everything that is going on in our garden. Mostly you'll read about plants, how I grow them and why. I will also write about what I do with the plants, with the crops and - yes, you guessed - WHY we do what we do and the way we do it :D See you next time!