Orange Daylilies

(this lovely hermocallius orange daylily picture was found at http://www.commons.wikimedia.org and picture was taken by dirks ramsey in 1997)

As you travel outside of Alabama's Roadsides in Between Tallassee, Eclectic and Alexander City, you will notice many of these beautiful daylilies hanging out on the side of the roads. Many people see these invasive crawlers and dig up their bulbs watching them run all over their borders of their flowerbeds. There are a few outside of my home that will bloom mid June and sometimes late July.
A friend a few years ago send me an email, it was about this golden needle lily. Come to find out, these lilies have been all over the place. These beautiful flowers are cooked into soups and cuisine from Taiwan and China. Can you imagine we have so much in common besides College Students? :) I found a recipe online by a fellow blogger that gives us a fish soup recipe. Her blog is called Saucing Around
This recipe calls for the dried flowers rather than them in their prime beauty. If you want to know more about that soup, visit this link that tells you more about that good recipe. These flowers are grown in fields and picked by farmers who provide these flowers for cuisine in Taiwan's home and restaurants.

(photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/olvwu/)






I found a video online with an herb enthusiast who loves eating different types of flowers. He was describing the redder types of daylilies, but he mentions the orange daylily that grows here. This daylily is the most primitive of the breeds. If you get other colors, they are probably hybrids of the orginal flowers.
I've really enjoyed this blog post because. This soup looks really good, but I don't like fish that much. Doctors rave about how good fish is for you, but I just can't eat it. I am thinking possibly if this fish were cooked and gills off, maybe I can eat it. Americans are too finiky when it comes to enjoying other cuisines.