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Cooking with Squash Blossoms; open blossom on squash plant on right side, three cut squash blossoms on wood background on right

Before squash harvest, you can cook with the blossoms

August 18, 2021

Just about every year I've been working, Sandy, one of our Master Gardeners, brings in squash blossoms around the office. He has offered them to me in the past, but I've never cooked with them before and never took him up the offer. This year, I was ready to explore how...

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Before squash harvest, you can cook with the blossoms