8 steamed flowering Recipes

dried chinese black mushrooms, water, kombu (dried kelp), bonito flakes, eggs, heavy cream, shaoxing wine, dry oloroso sherry, soy sauce, kosher salt, sugar, asian sesame oil, flowering chinese chives , tough bottoms discarded, jumbo lump crabmeat , picked over, asian sesame oil, sugar, kosher salt, shaoxing wine, dry oloroso sherry, white pepper

ground coffee or 1/2 cup espresso beans, ground cinnamon, water, orange flower water (to taste), sugar (optional) or vanilla , to taste (optional), hot milk (optional) or steamed milk, to taste (optional)

sugar snap peas, trimmed, butter or margarine, melted, salt, pepper, garnish: fresh flowers

pine nuts, unsalted butter, softened, minced prosciutto , about 6 tbsp, quinoa, rinsed, salt, divided, olive oil, divided, freshly ground pepper, pacific halibut fillets, condensed vegetable broth, minced shallots, fresh savoy spinach, water, garnish: small edible flowers

fairly large square of cheese cloth (6x6in), length ribbon, long enough to tie the cheese cloth into a bag, lavender flowers (a handful), drops rosemary oil, bath tub filled with steaming hot water (99- 110 deg. f)

garlic, minced, shallots, chopped, champagne, arborio rice, hot lobster stock, clarified butter, u-10 scallops, black grouper, mussels, steamed, shells removed, live maine lobster, 1 1/4 lb each, steamed, shells removed, stalks fresh tarragon, white truffle oil, fresh herbs, for garnish, edible flowers, for garnish