After splitting the CSA goodies with CSA brother, we were left with 3 blossoms. First, I carefully and thoroughly washed the blossoms inside and out. Then I gingerly patted them dry.
Next, I put a couple spoonfuls of ricotta in a bowl, washed some of the CSA lemon basil, chopped the basil, added it to the ricotta along with some pepper, and mixed it all together.
Then it was time to stuff the blossoms. I wanted to use all the yummy ricotta-basil mixture, so it's entirely possible I stuffed the blossoms too much. It was a bit tricky to twist the petals closed and some ricotta seemed to peek out. Oh well - in my book, cheese is a good thing!!

Next, I cracked an egg into a small bowl and whisked it. I put a couple spoonfuls of flour into a bowl. I dredged each blossom in flour, then egg, then flour again. This was even trickier than stuffing the blossoms! The twist wanted to unravel, I was worried about them being too eggy since egg mixture seemed to be entering the inside of the blossom and reaching the ricotta, I couldn't decide if there was too little/too much flour, and some of the flour seemed to absorb into the egg... help!!!! SP was so looking forward to these and I feared a horrible, soggy, sloppy mess!



And dad said his 'fried flower' was tastier than he expected. Of course, he was more interested in the CSA sweet corm. Dad loves corn on the cob. So does SP. I don't eat it. I pulled off the husks and all those annoying strings/hairs, dad boiled the water and supervised the corn, and SP and dad enjoyed their corn so much there's talk of going to the nearby Thursday afternoon Farmers Market tomorrow for more corn.

Aunt Blueeley,
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