357141 Fri Jan 05 01:45:42 -0800 2007 2 31 Home Cooking 0 2154800 Several years ago, I had some home-cooked yucca flowers in a light sauce. I think it was a light tomato sauce, and the flowers were battered and fried. Has anyone had a dish like this? I should have been more inquisitive at the time. Fri Jan 05 01:45:42 -0800 2007 43747 Leucadian 1 2154923 Yeah, and if you email me I can tell you where there are vacant lots near Leucadia with flor de izote plants. http://www.chowhound.com/topics/294215 I'm kind of kidding about the last, but when I was living in Vista, I had a crazy friend who insisted on doing yucca flower harvesting during the season. Ants love those yucca flowers too. Really thank goodness I never got stopped by a cop during the yucca hunt because I doubt if they would have believed the reason for the machetes in the back seat. Not the recipe you asked for, but this thread had a yucca flower frittata recipe. http://www.chowhound.com/topics/62423 This link mentions a recipe of the yucca flowers called "flor de novia" where the flowers are scrambled with tomatoes, chiles, onion and eggs http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/recipes/puebla/kg0506.html BTW, the flowers are high in calcium and potassium. Fri Jan 05 02:37:48 -0800 2007 2154800 10264 rworange 2 2155269 Thanks rworange. That Mexconnect site is very interesting. I never made the connection till a couple of days ago between food and geographical names: jalapeno from Xalapa, poblano from Puebla. And there's a place named after my favorite hot sauce: Cholula. :) I do take a long time to get it, always have. I can see I need a map. No problem finding izote, however, they're right across the street. That's where the ones I tasted came from. But they're not in bloom right now. I'll look forward to the spring flowers with a hungry gleam in my eye. Fri Jan 05 05:22:25 -0800 2007 2154923 43747 Leucadian