Cooking with Lavender

By Suzanne T. Smith

Love that fragrant lavender in your garden? Try cooking with it! Cooking with Lavender will become as dog-eared and stained as the other culinary books in my kitchen, and lavender will take its place on my spice rack beside cumin, thyme, and coriander.

That’s right—lavender’s lemony-tasting blossoms and tangy leaves go as well in the kitchen as in the linen closet. Lavender pairs beautifully with oranges and other fruits, fish and seafood, poultry and meats, as
well as adding mouth-watering, exotic flavor to sweets. Cooking with Lavender shows you how to create mealtime adventures, make food sing with savory, tangy, zesty recipes featuring this versatile herb, and have a great time in your kitchen as you experiment with innovative dishes using luscious lavender.

Cooking with Lavender includes:
lively recipes for lavender-laced Soups, Stews, and Main Dishes;
spirited recipes for lavender-vitalized Side Dishes;
irresistible lavender-scented Beverages, Desserts, and Sweets.
dynamite recipes for making Lavender Butters, Rubs, and Herb Mixtures to add zing to your ordinary dishes;

Make your kitchen smell good enough to eat— get an armload of lavender blossoms, curl up in a cozy chair with your own copy of Cooking with Lavender, and discover some scrumptious ways to use this delicious herb. Start your own lavender adventures today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Mar 1, 2008
• ISBN: 9781936744572

Book preview

Praise for Cooking with Lavender

Cooking with Lavender will become as dog-eared and stained as the other culinary books in my kitchen, and lavender will take its place on my spice rack beside cumin, thyme, and coriander. — readingnewmexico.com

Praise for Smith’s other cookbooks . . .

On Recipes for Romance:

You’ll have a great time whipping up romantic meals with this cookbook. —Ruth Glick, cookbook author, Columbia, MD

Smith’s recipe collection is full of inspiring dishes to create romantic meals. —Stamatios Palios, owner–chef, Stamo’s Café, Bellevue, WA

This is a fabulous cookbook for the romantic at heart. —Laura Baker, award-winning romantic suspense author, Albuquerque, NM

"Recipes for Romance. . . silken, sensuous, whip-it-up-in-a-minute recipes for great romantic meals."

—Katy Korkos, proprietor, Katherine’s Restaurant, White Rock, NM

"Even newlywed kitchen novices can prepare romantic meals together with Recipes for Romance. Guaranteed." —newlyweds John & Kirstin Loth, Columbus, OH

On Pumpkin Recipes:

"My wife and I bought your Pumpkin Recipes book a few weekends ago, and are delighted with it. Your recipes are simple and exquisite. Congratulations on an excellent job." —Ed Santiago, Los Alamos, NM

Terrific recipes, even for the gluten-intolerant, thanks to the information in the introduction about how to modify the wheat-containing recipes to gluten-free ones. —Karen Smith, gluten intolerance expert, Ann Arbor, MI

". . . can help you lose weight. Pumpkin Recipes is full of good, healthy recipes to help you curb your appetite without a lot of calories." —Bette Johnson, R.N., Madison, SD

© 2008, 2014 by Suzanne T. Smith.

Published by Rio Grande Books in collaboration with Obsession du Jour Press

Printed in the United States of America.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be transmitted, reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or translated into any language or computer language in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual, or otherwise without prior written permission from the author, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review. Manufactured in the United States of America.

Front cover photo courtesy the Rembe family, Los Poblanos Lavender Fields, Los Ranchos, NM Design by Paul Rhetts, Los Ranchos, NM

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Smith, Suzanne T.

Cooking with lavender / by Suzanne T. Smith.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN: 978-1-890689-77-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN: 978-1-936744-57-2 (ebook formats)

1. Cookery (Lavender)

2. Lavenders--New Mexico.

I. Title. TX819.L38S65 2008

641.6--dc22

2008019109

Contents

Praise for Cooking with Lavender

For Ron, Emma, and Clancy

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Lavender through the Ages—A Brief History

Cooking with Lavender

Sources for Culinary Lavender

Growing Lavender

Varieties of Lavender for Culinary Purposes

Harvesting and Storing Lavender

Lavender Resources in New Mexico

Other Uses for Lavender

Lavender Recipes

Red Raspberry–Lavender Soup

Wild Mushroom– Barley Soup with Lavender

Lavender–Scented Crabmeat Mousse

Grilled Shrimp Aux Herbes

Suzanne’s Orange Roughy in Lavender–Orange Wine Sauce

Broiled Salmon with Lavender Champagne Sauce

Lavender–Baked Scrod in Foil

Lavender–Seared Ahi Tuna with Mustard Sauce

Lavender Chicken with Rosemary and Lemon

Grilled Lamb Chops with Herbes de Provence

Greek Lamb Chops with Lavender

Grilled Marinated Filets Mignons on Lavender Foil Bread

Lavender–Laced Filets Mignons with Mushroom Sauce

Sautéed Veal Scallops with Lavender–Lemon Sauce

Pasta with Fresh Herbs

New Potatoes with Lemon–Lavender–Chive Butter

Lavender–Fried Apples

Mediterranean Carrots

Lavender Peas

Zucchini Provençal

Lavender Crêpes Suzanne

Lavender Pound Cake

Lavender–Apple Pound Cake

Lavender Mini–Meringues

Lavender Shortbread Cookies

Lavender Cookie Icing:

Lavender Cookies

Cherries with Lavender Flowers

Lavender Lemonade

Lavender Lapsang–Souchong Tea

Lavender–Spice Mixtures

Herbes de Provence

Lavender Butters

Lavender-Herb Cheese Spread

Lavender Kisses

Lavender Watermelon Salad

Lavender and Buttermilk Fried Chicken

Barb’s Strawberry-Lavender Coffee Cake

Skinny Strawberry-Lavender Tiramisu

Lavender Fruit Pizza with Lavender-Orange Glaze

Suzanne’s Lavender Crunchies for Pets

Bibliography

About the Author

For Ron, Emma, and Clancy

Acknowledgments

My special thanks go to Rosalie Carle, known in our area as The Lavender Lady, who started me on this venture by suggesting that I should