How This Flower Changed The Course of My Life

In this episode you’ll see the one amazing ingredient that set me off on my cooking journey. In the ten years since I started this channel so much has changed but just like in the beginning, Im headed back to the garden. Join me as I cook an amazing traditional Mexican recipe, give you an update my new garden and explain why the future of Pro Home Cooks looks so bright.

00:00 – Intro
00:18 – Garden Harvest
05:50 – Crema De Flor De Calabaza
12:05 – Squash Blossom Quesadilla

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Creator and Host – Mike G
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29 Replies to “How This Flower Changed The Course of My Life”

  1. My Grandma (Nene to me) cooks these when she makes Dolma (stuffed vine leaves) and fills them with Dolma mixture.. as a kid I found it strange to eat a flower but I'm glad tried it! Hard to find if you don't grow your own!

  2. Thanks for sharing about the changes in your life. I like it and I hope the direction you evolve right now will bring you happiness.
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  3. Both dishes look and sound amazing, I had zucchini blossom the first time ever recently in Cyprus, they are served stuffed and baked delicious πŸ™‚

  4. I grew up with these flowers so this video is really weird for me. Fyi I am Bengali and these flowers dipped in a lentil batter and deep fried are like the Bangladesh equivalent to beer snacks

  5. Grew up eating battered courgette blossoms, but our yields were pretty poor in our household so it was always a bit of a delicacy!

  6. Would be great to see a video about making corn tortillas from scratch – see your take on it!

  7. Congrats on the journey. I used to watch you guys back in college for college cooking/food ideas!

  8. I just made these for the first time last week! They are so amazing. I will 100% be making more of these. I stuffed them a anchovy, lemon, ricotta mixture and breaded then with Panko. I shallow fried them and they were delicious!

  9. I’ve been meaning to try blossoms for years, and these two applications look like a great place for me to start. I have blossoms on my pumpkin plant right now that I could use. I love your videos and your style of cooking – fresh, flavor, from scratch, and what do I have on hand – which is how I cook. I’m almost 60, and still look forward to new techniques, ideas, and flavor combinations.

  10. i'm 1000% looking forward to seeing what recipees you do with fresh fall and winter harvests.

  11. Just for info, the male flowers appear first to attract pollinating insects to the female flowers. I would be a little wary of picking them before the plants have fruited for the first time

  12. Yeah, those squash vine borers have killed every zucchini I've planted in the past several years. Can usually get quite a few zucchini first, but they are reaaaaaally annoying and hard to manage…

    I would check your other plants, and if you see the poop (looks kinda like sawdust), I would look into removing them while they're small.

  13. I never knew that these were called Zucchini blossoms! When growing up,, my mum grew tons of the stuff, and she battered and deep fried them! Absolutely delicious!

  14. My mum is huge fan of turkish tv shows. After seeing them cook flower she decided to do the same, it tasted ok but nothing out of ordinary. Sure, if you have too many male flowers you can cook them. But it is not "life changing". It's just a flower.

  15. I’ve been there since day one and that video on the roof top. Yu Nork for life my dude

  16. 9:59 you are not gonna convince me that he cut the same tiny zuchinni that he had on camera πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€

  17. I stuff them with cubed beef or lamb, small amount of rice, herbs and a ragu style sauce then steam cook them. πŸ€€πŸ˜‹ absolutely delicious

  18. Been watching you since the early brothers green eats days. Always loved your cooking style. You use what u have or can get and make great food. Now you got the garden growing i can't wait to see all the goodies you will be making.

  19. I’m actually growing pumpkins and I saw they have the same flower. So I’m thinking about making this recipe.

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