#squash blossoms

[nncastle]

Making appetizers from my garden.

[moon-light-dreaming]

🌿🎃

[morethansalad]

Vegan Stuffed Squash Blossoms

[carnelianmeluha]

Ricotta-Filled Squash Blossoms

Loosely based on a WIP by @zzoomacroom

This is the first fanfic recipe I made based on a WIP! I had honestly forgotten that today was Dreamling Day and then I remembered how I couldn't do anything last year even though I wanted to because my defense was less than a week away. This year I really wanted to do something but I'm out of recipe ideas and there are fewer fics nowadays too. But I had this farmers market AU WIP in mind and I had already plucked fresh summer squash blossoms today, so it all worked out! I am not sure if the fic was completed, so I took creative liberty to imagine how the rest of the story might go leading to the recipe scene. ☺️

I love farmers market AUs and this fic idea is super cute! Hob sells produce every week and Dream is so shy and posh that he always bluescreens in front of Hob. Instead of talking he ends up buying veggies, which can be suggestive... one of which is a summer squash!

Ahem, a squash from my garden.

Hob flirts and makes a joke about his choice of veggies and Dream gets offended (I think mostly embarrassed about his Freudian choices lol) and storms out. But eventually they clear up everything and all's well in the end.

The fic ends there, so I imagine that after the misunderstandings are cleared, Hob invites Dream to his home for a dinner date because he wants a serious relationship too. He shows Dream his farm, which still has a lot of summer squash and these big flowers that Dream finds fascinating. Dream asks why some flowers have a little squash at the bottom and some don't. So Hob explains to him the birds and bees version of male and female squash flowers and how he sometimes has to hand pollinate if there are fewer bees. But the male flowers have no other role but to attract pollinators. So they can actually be harvested and eaten.

He asks Dream if he would like to try some and that's when they make the squash blossoms together! Hob makes a filling with ricotta cheese, parmesan cheese, basil from his garden, chilli flakes, lemon zest, and some seasoning, and puts it in a piping bag.

He plucks some flowers and washes them carefully and shows Dream how to fill the flowers and seal it by twisting the delicate petals slightly. Dream is so nervous and he just squeezes half of the filling outside the flower but Hob just laughs and gently holds his hands and guides him in filling the flowers.

They make a batter and dip the blossoms in it and fry them till light golden and crispy.

Hob quickly makes some marinara pasta with garden veggies and serves the blossoms with the rest of the marinara. They sit outside at Hob's farm for dinner and talk for hours till it gets dark. Then Hob kisses Dream under the moonlight and asks him to stay over. ☺️

That's all I got! Hope to read the full fic someday!

Happy Dreamling Day, folks!

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[ohmytomatoe]

SQUASH BLOSSOMS

I found it strange I did this last year TODAY. I really am on the same schedule as last years garden, fuckin weird! I had a lot more ants in the male flowers more than last year.

I only was able to pick 9 for now, I actually think I should have got the blossoms 3 days ago it had so many, but they’ll keep coming for a little while.

I stuffed these with burrata cheese, basil (sweet and purple leaf) parsley, salt, pepper. The batter I used flour and water with seasoning but I should have added seltzer or beer cause the breading was flat but I was being lazy for a small batch. I thought they were good! They take time to clean stuff dip fry, then swallow them whole within seconds.