Is this edible? - primula, common primrose

A volunteer in my garden, can we eat it? If so how?

It's a primula, looking at the single seed head I can see on the first picture it may well be a common primrose.  IF so then it is edible, but I would not eat it until you have seen the flowers and made certain of the identification.

We have lots of primula in our garden so that makes sense, but they flowered a while ago, they are the first signs of spring here, hence the name 😜. Being that they flowered in late february, should we have eaten them then?
I knew primula are edible, but wouldn't know how to prepare them, are they good? What do you do with them?

I've only ever eaten the flowers dipped in egg white and then in sugar and allowed to dry. google says that the leaves vary a lot in taste but I have no experience there.

cook the leaves like greens, flowers can also be used as a tea.

I did a quick search for recipes, in Italy there are tons. Most of them use both flowers and leaves, so i wonder if they will be different because they are more mature. I'm going to try this weekend.

Some of the recipes i found were frittata, risotto, soup, salad (i imagine only with younger leaves) and pasta.

I will probably tried sautéed in olive oil to get a sense of the flavor before trying in some other dish. Thanks for the suggestions!