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Borage grows as a weed in my father's garden, from time to time I go to harvest some and every time I plan to cultivate a few plants.

The flowers are small and collect them from the slightly thorny branches can be annoying...

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...but once collected you will be fascinated by their bright and vivid color.



I dried these flowers to add them to my flowers tea, that I prepare different every year.

The surprising flowers: flowers of aromatic herbs, vegetables and spontaneous herbs.

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Plants and aromatic herbs world is huge, join WHB!

I'm hosting Weekend Herb Blogging this week (May 23rd to May 29th).

Weekend Herb Blogging is an event started by Kalyn from Kalyn's Kitchen and now handled by Haalo from Cook (almost) anything at least once.
The entries should follow the rules:

1. Entries to Weekend Herb Blogging must be posts written specifically for Weekend Herb Blogging. This means they cannot be cross-posted in other events. Photos used in the posts however can be submitted to photo events like DMBLGIT.

2. Weekend Herb Blogging entries should have the goal of helping people learn about cooking with herbs or plant ingredients.

Only two types of entries will be accepted:
* Recipe posts where a herb or plant ingredient is one of the primary ingredients in the recipe
* Informative posts that spotlight one herb or plant ingredient, particularly including information about how they are used in cooking.
Naturally, posts can be a combination of both these criteria.

3. Posts must contain the phrase Weekend Herb Blogging with a link to the host for that week (that would be me... Erbe in Cucina - Cooking with Herbs) and to this site.

4. The posts may be written anytime during the week but you must email me with WHB in the subject line by:
3pm Sunday - Utah Time
10pm Sunday - London Time
9am Monday - Melbourne (Aus) Time
You can use this converter to find out the corresponding time in your location.

5. In your email please include the following information:

Your Name
Your Blog Name/URL
Your Post URL
Your Location
Attach a photo 300px wide
This information will help your host greatly as the recaps can be quite time consuming.

6. Recaps can be published Sunday Night or Monday - the decision is left to the Host.

You can read the rules also here

Look who's Hosting WHB

So, just e-mail you entries to scrivi[at]erbeincucina[dot]it with the above information.
Have fun!

--- WHB #285: Recap ---

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One year ago: Aromatic Herbs Crepes

Two years ago: Flowers Tea

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