My first experience with capucine, or Nasturtium in English, was in La Rochelle at a foster family's. It was end of summer 2003 and there were loads of this plant's flowers and seeds on the flower bed. Micheline (the hostess) showed me that the roughly grounded seeds of this plant can be added to salad giving it a rather peppery taste. The flowers, even better, have a sweet and peppery taste, something which not many people explored (whichever types of flowers) in their salad...
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