A full-color, beautifully illustrated cookbook with over 70 photographs of lavender dishes and fields and 80 well-tested recipes for cooking and baking with lavender. Recipes range from sweet to savory, everyday to gourmet, and appetizers through desserts. The book is packed with tips, helpful how-to information, and lively recipe introductions throughout. It also contains details on culinary lavender varieties, and how to grow, harvest, and store them. Truly, this volume is a feast for all the senses.
Whether you love to cook, enjoy experiencing new flavors or simplyreading about unique culinary techniques, Kathy Gehrt?s new book, Discover Cooking with Lavender, provides a sumptuous exploration into the world of lavender. Discover Cooking with Lavender offers readers 75 recipes for Sugars, Seasonings
Part travel diary, part memoir, part history, and all cookbook, Lavender & Lovage is an invitation from Karen Burns-Booth to join her on a personal culinary journey through the memories of the places she has lived and visited. Born from her eponymous award winning blog this book contains 160 unique recipes, all beautifully photographed by the author. They showcase the breadth and depth of her travel. Karen has lived and travelled all over the world and has brought some of her favourite recipes, experiences, and memories to share here with her readers. Karen focuses on the best of traditional recipes, preserving the ways of eating that kept our ancestors healthy, a vital contribution to the modern food landscape. If you would like to see the old made new again, to taste slow food instead of fast, to make food personal yet international, you will find it here.
Discover the joys of desserts and luscious drinks made with culinary lavender. Sunny Savina, proprietor of Seattle's beloved herbalist shop The Hidden Alchemist, shares her favorite recipes. Her recipes are fresh, the results astonishing. The instructions are direct, with easy to follow directions.
Love that fragrant lavender in your yard? Try cooking with it! That's right--use lavender's lemony-tasting blossoms and tangy leaves in the kitchen, not just the linen closet. Lavender pairs beautifully with oranges and other fruits, fish and seafood, poultry and meats, and adds mouth-watering, exotic flavor to vegetables and sweets. COOKING WITH LAVENDER shows how to create mealtime excitement, make food sing with savory, tangy, zesty recipes featuring this versatile herb, and have a great time in the kitchen experimenting with innovative dishes using luscious lavender. COOKING WITH LAVENDER includes lavender-laced soups, stews, and main dishes; lavender-energized side dishes; irresistible lavender-scented beverages, desserts, and sweets; dynamite lavender butters, rubs, and herb mixtures to add zing to ordinary dishes; and even lavender-charged dog biscuits. Make your kitchen smell good enough to eat with an armload of lavender blossoms, curl up in a cozy chair with COOKING WITH LAVENDER, and discover scrumptious ways to use this delicious herb. Start your lavender adventures today! ". . . long-awaited, timely cookbook on the enticement of lavender as a household culinary herb. It's user-friendly, too!" --Randy Murray, owner, For the Love of Lavender, Santa Fe, NM. "Great lavender recipes for people--and their four-footed friends." --Clint Alcott, owner, Four-footed Friends, Santa Fe, NM.
Here are more than 100 recipes that will bring beautiful flower-filled dishes to your kitchen table! This easy-to-use cookbook is brimming with scrumptious botanical treats, from sweet violet cupcakes, pansy petal pancakes, daylily cheesecake, and rosemary flower margaritas to savory sunflower chickpea salad, chive blossom vinaigrette, herb flower pesto, and mango orchid sticky rice. Alongside every recipe are tips and tricks for finding, cleaning, and preparing edible blossoms. You’ll also learn how to infuse vinegars, vodkas, sugars, frostings, jellies and jams, ice creams, and more with the color and flavor of your favorite flowers. Fresh from the farmers’ market or plucked from your very own garden, a world of delectable flowers awaits!
Alain Passard is the chef who astonished the food world in 2000 by removing red meat from his three-Michelin-starred Paris restaurant L'Arp?ge, and dedicating himself to cooking with vegetables, supplied exclusively from his own organic farm. Today L'Arp?ge is widely acknowledged as one of the world's great restaurants, while its visionary owner has inspired a new generation of chefs. Here is a collection of forty-eight wonderful recipes illustrated with Alain Passard's own joyful collages. The Art of Cooking with Vegetables is made up of unexpected combinations, complex flavours created with a few simple elements, a passion for fresh and seasonal ingredients. Simple, and simply perfect.
Lavender is grown in two different varieties. The lavender ornamental which commonly is used largely for decoration or essential oils and the Culinary lavender is a type of edible lavender that is grown for flavor and kitchen use. Culinary lavender is a type of lavender plant that is more aromatic and less bitter after cooking. Start by growing munstead, lady, or hidcote if you want to grow your own culinary lavender. These are the most often used edible lavenders and they are both attractive to look at and delicious to eat especially when you combine with other ingredients. Culinary lavender has a wide range of applications, ranging from sweet to savory. However, cooking with lavender can be difficult because it quickly overpowers other flavors, so you need to be able to properly measure it when cooking with it. Lavender is a flowering plant. The lavender flower and oil naturally services well as medicinal herbs and are used to produce medication. Lavender is often used to treat anxiety, tension, and sleeplessness, as well as having numerous other health advantages, such as: Helping you sleep better and more comfortably. Aiding in the Treatment of Skin care and Blemishes... Providing Natural Pain Reliever... Lowering your blood pressure and heart rate. Helping you with Asthma Symptoms. Menopausal Hot Flashes are reduced. Aid in the Fungus Promotes hair growth in certain people. In this cookbook, we will look at the health advantages of eating lavender as well as some healthy and nutritiously rich recipes available for cooking with lavender.
Lavender as a culinary herb? Absolutely! Chives, dill, and basil may be more familiar, but lavender has one advantage over all the other herbs standing in the spice rack: versatility. Now, the refreshing taste of lavender can be experienced in beverages, salads, entrees, desserts, and so much more. The Lavender Gourmet, a 344-page cookbook, contains more than 140 recipes -- all of which showcase and celebrate this multifaceted herb. From using lavender in old family favorites and new creations to advice on growing and harvesting the herb, this book can help transform any cook or baker into a lavender gourmet.
