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Posts tagged “lavender”

Ingredient Spotlight: Lavender Sea Salt

Look at this lovely lavender salt given to me by a friend. It's a wet, rough salt with all the herbal fragrance of lavender infused in big, flaky chunks of salt. It's absolutely delicious, but I also ...

Recipe Recommendation: Lavender Polenta Coffeecake

We baked this delicious, moist coffee cake that's made with polenta, lavender flowers, sultanas soaked in brandy, and a honey-based glaze....

Recipe: Fig and Lavender Goat Cheese Galettes

Figs, lavender, goat cheese, almonds, honey. Baked into a galette, these exquisitely complementary flavors whisk us away to the Mediterranean. This is a rustic tart that honors the sweetness of ripe f...

Seasonal Spotlight: Cooking With Lavender

Yesterday we realized that we had given you three whole recipes with lavender recently, and that this reflects our current inclination to throw lavender into dessert left and right. This craze for lav...

Weekend Recipe: Rhubarb Lavender Crumble

Rhubarb is an odd fruit. To begin with, it's actually a vegetable - a vegetable with poisonous leaves. The stalks are crisp and juicy, with a vegetal crunch rather like celery. And yet this prosaic st...