To make up for my humiliation and embarrassment, another friend brought over a huge basket of zucchini flowers from his garden.

The ravioli with zucchini flowers in cream sauce is exquisite.

But we had already decided on fried zucchini flowers stuffed with crab meat.

Add the prosciutto to the oil and cook just enough to heat through (at this point saute the zucchini flowers if using them).

Add the prosciutto mixture with its oil and the zucchini flowers if you have used them.

In such country cooking, zucchini flowers were not treated like rare jewels.

Carefully lower the stuffed zucchini flowers into the hot oil in batches.

Repeat the process with the remaining stuffed zucchini flowers.

Kolokythoanthoi: zucchini flowers stuffed with rice or cheese and herbs.

It took three people to stuff zucchini flowers for 30.