1.   And her recipes include such unusual fare as violet jelly, stuffed zucchini blossoms, salmon-stuffed tulips and strawberry-filled gladioli.

2.   Each mezze consists of three tiny plates of tastes like piquillo peppers, zucchini blossom with basil and white bean bruschetta.

3.   Remove stamens from zucchini blossoms.

4.   Which is very likely the reason zucchini blossoms were originally used in cooking.

5.   Zucchini blossoms are the fragile precursor to the fruit on a zucchini plant.