Any Excuse for Deviled Eggs

It all began with one of my first vegetarian cookbooks, Any Which Way But Meat. In it was a recipe for deviled eggs with mushrooms... Deviled eggs.With mushrooms. Two of my favorite foods rolled into one, delicious, bite-size treat... Over the years, the recipe has evolved to include pretty much anything that's fresh at the time, as long as it had mushrooms and some kind of seasoning.  Today's deviled eggs are about as fresh from the garden as I could get, not having any chickens to call my own (a dream for another time and another post) and were simply too beautiful not to share:

A Sunny Food to Bring More Sunny Days

Ingredients:

Hard-boiled eggs (Tip: Put the eggs in cold water and slowly heat till boiling with salt. Then remove them from the heat, keep the lid on, and leave them for 20-30 minutes before plunging them in ice-water.)

Summer Savory from the garden

Cilantro from the garden

Basil (2 varieties) from the garden

Lemon Balm from the garden

Salt & Pepper

Paprika

1 Marigold blossom from the garden

...and who do you think was the brave one to try to egg with the marigold? That's right! The J-Rex! According to the pickiest eater I know, the flower was quite "yummy."