Is Ree Drummond trying to poison people with lack of clarification?
6 years ago
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Today, I caught the tail end of "Girls Night In" (2019) from The Pioneer Woman. Ree makes Butterfly Martinis, and floats a flower in each glass. One guest asks what kind of flower is that and Ree responds with something like -- it's a sweet pea, they're edible. WAIT A MINUTE!!!!! She does not say if the sweet pea blossom is from the vegetable pea, or the flower. That's kind of a big miss! The instructions on the Food Network website only says to float an edible flower. Sweet peas (genus Lathyrus odoratus) are toxic--blossoms, flowers, pods, seeds, vine, leaves etc. Picture below of garden sweet peas... very pretty, smell nice, but are toxic.
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