Borage, starflower or Borago officinalis
A beautiful vegetable and herb that flowers during
the summertime. The young green leaves can be eaten.
This plant is annual but there is no need to sow it
every spring as it produces offspring easely.
Starflower or boragae.
Starflower recipes
Mixed salat
This mixed salat is quite basic
Take 200mg mixt lettuce, like Rucola or Iceberg
Add to this : The young leaves of Starflower,
Dandalion, Spinat,
Starflower,Nasturtium, English Marigold
Vinaigraitte or as salad dressings:
5 spoons of oil (oliv oil extra-virgin )
garlic/salt/black pepper
Starflower as a vegetable
The fresh young leaves are chopped very tasteful, having a
Cucumber fragrance.
Starflower tea
Hold a chopped young leave in a glas with boiled water
for 10 minutes.
Starflower vinagar
The blue flowers color vinagar in a beautiful blue.
It has no effect on the taste.
Borago-oil
The seeds of Starflower contain GLA-linolacid in a
high concentration, GLA[linolacid is transformed into
prostaglandine E1, an anti-inflammotoire drug.
starflower and bees
Starflower is often visited by bees and solitary
bees. The flowers are hanging down.
Starflower honey is rarely available.
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