The Beauty of Borage

Whats more perfect in Summer than Pimms? You wouldn't have a pimms on Christmas day, but a nice sunny Saturday afternoon it's wonderful. Pimms is like strawberries, it should only be enjoyed during the summer, any other time and there is a distinct lack of magic.

If you go out and order a Pimms at a bar it will have cucumber in, but the original Pimms recipe contained no cucumber but borage flowers. Borage grows wild everywhere, its very easy to find and it tastes like cucumber, note the modern substitution. For those of you who take vitamin supplements, you will not be a stranger to star flower oil, this is basically borage oil, and it is high in GLA. It is also used as a massage oil, and great for preventing those wrinkles.

I spent a whole Saturday afternoon, painstakingly picking borage flowers from our over-grown borage plant. We have cut it back to the roots twice since then, still it comes back in abundance! Currently those borage flowers are sat in the freezer, awaiting that sunny day. I was planning on pulling them out for a BBQ tonight, but from looking out the window, I think they will be staying in their arctic home a little longer!