Lavender Lemonade

Lavender Lemonade ... you'll autumn inwards dear amongst its beautiful as well as calming shade of pink, as well as its fragrant floral season of lavender.

I am absolutely enamoured amongst this lavander lemonade.

Isn't it beautiful? 

Such a calming and comforting shade of pink.  Like the inside of a polished seashell.  You know, those large ones you check upwards to your ear as well as you're supposed to hear the ocean?



On a recent mount cabin get-away girls' weekend amongst 1 of my friends, nosotros went poking around some shops inwards a trivial mount town.  I stumbled across a department inwards the dorsum corner of 1 of these trivial shops dedicated to lavander products from Mountain Farm, a lavander (and huckleberry as well as dairy goat) farm inwards the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina.

Since many of the products had to produce amongst cooking, I ... of class ... 'got stuck' inwards this corner for quite some fourth dimension ... reading all the production labels, my require heed swirling amongst ideas.

I'd never cooked amongst lavender.  And I was intrigued.  I swear I could convey bought every production inwards there.

I settled on only three.  Pretty proficient restraint on my part, if I produce nation as well as thus myself.

One of them was this A Taste of Lavender cookbook from Mountain Farm, amongst a trivial package of dried lavander inwards the back.

As shortly equally I got habitation I gave Mountain Farm's lavender lemonade recipe a try.

And I dear it.  Lemonade infused amongst the florally fragrant gustation of lavender.  But not too much, as well as thus it's overpowering.  It was only correct to me.

Over ice, a tall drinking glass of lavander lemonade is perfectly refreshing on a hot summertime day.  Yup, I'll hold out making lavander lemonade 1 time again ... for sure.

Lavender Lemonade

Source:  Adapted from A Taste of Lavender: Culinary Delights from Mountain Farm compiled past times Linda Thompson & Marilyn Cade

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

• 4 sprigs fresh lavander (flowers & stems) or nearly 1 T. dried lavander flowers
• 1 1/2 c. granulated saccharide
• 1 c. fresh lemon juice (about vi lemons)
• 1/4 c. fresh lime juice (about two limes)
• 2 quarts water

Directions

1. Bring H2O as well as saccharide to a boil inwards a large saucepan. When saccharide is dissolved, take away from heat.
2. Add lavender, lemon juice, as well as lime juice. Cool to room temperature, strain, as well as chill.
3. Serve over H2O ice garnished amongst lemon slices as well as lavander sprigs.

Enjoy!

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Kiwi Sangria Popsicles

The championship of the Southern Living  periodical article from which I adapted these popsicles was "Serve a Cocktail on a Stick" ... ummmmmm, okay!  You actually don't demand to twist my arm on that one.

And since these convey kiwi inwards them, I decided they were simply perfect to give a whirl for this month's installment of the Eating the Alphabet challenge - letters K or L.  The master recipe was for white peach sangria pops, alongside a petty splash of kiwi too raspberry ... I decided to change it upwards to hold out simply kiwi with a touching on of raspberry.  I intend you lot could set inwards simply nigh whatsoever fruit you'd like!

Remember these cute petty Dixie newspaper cups?  That's what you'll demand to whip upwards these popsicles.

First mix up roughly white wine, white grape juice, sugar, too fresh lemon juice ... too pour it into the cute petty cups.

Then drib inwards a raspberry too roughly kiwi.

(Optional)
Next, acquire inquisitive nigh the wine-and-fruit combination ... give it a petty taste ... determine it tastes actually expert ... too serve upwards an un-frozen popsicle for the chef.   You know, 'cause this cookin' stuff's stone oil too the chef deserves it.

Then comprehend each loving cup alongside a modest while of aluminum foil too brand a modest slit inwards the middle of the foil alongside a knife ...

 ... too insert a popsicle stick through the slit.

You're laid for the freezer! 

Now ane large tip I tin give is to brand certain you've cleared a spot inwards your freezer to set these before you're standing at that spot alongside the freezer door broad open, ane mitt precariously holding a plate of liquid popsicles, too one-handedly trying to rearrange the entire freezer contents.

I might convey learned that the difficult way.

When you're laid to enjoy your popsicles, simply pare off the newspaper loving cup too bask away!

Mmmmm.  Popsicles are all grown up.

Kiwi Sangria Popsicles

Source:  Adapted from Southern Living  magazine's White Peach Sangria Pops, July 2012

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

two 1/4 c. dry out or semi-sweet white wine*

3/4 c. white grape juice

1/3 c. sugar

1 T. fresh lemon juice

12 raspberries

two kiwi fruit, peeled too sliced

12 (3 oz.) newspaper cups

12 wooden popsicle sticks or H2O ice cream spoons

Directions

1.  Combine wine, grape juice, sugar, too lemon juice inwards large measurement cup.  Stir until carbohydrate dissolves.  Pour mixture into newspaper cups.  

2.  Quarter each kiwi slice.  Drop a raspberry and four kiwi quarters into each cup.

3.  Cover each loving cup alongside aluminum foil.  Make a modest slit inwards the middle of each cup's foil too insert a popsicle stick.  Freeze 8 hours or until firm.

*NOTE:  For this batch I used a semi-sweet sparkling Moscato.

Enjoy!

Lavender Lemonade

Lavender Lemonade ... you'll autumn inwards dear amongst its beautiful as well as calming shade of pink, as well as its fragrant floral season of lavender.

I am absolutely enamoured amongst this lavander lemonade.

Isn't it beautiful? 

Such a calming and comforting shade of pink.  Like the inside of a polished seashell.  You know, those large ones you check upwards to your ear as well as you're supposed to hear the ocean?



On a recent mount cabin get-away girls' weekend amongst 1 of my friends, nosotros went poking around some shops inwards a trivial mount town.  I stumbled across a department inwards the dorsum corner of 1 of these trivial shops dedicated to lavander products from Mountain Farm, a lavander (and huckleberry as well as dairy goat) farm inwards the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina.

Since many of the products had to produce amongst cooking, I ... of class ... 'got stuck' inwards this corner for quite some fourth dimension ... reading all the production labels, my require heed swirling amongst ideas.

I'd never cooked amongst lavender.  And I was intrigued.  I swear I could convey bought every production inwards there.

I settled on only three.  Pretty proficient restraint on my part, if I produce nation as well as thus myself.

One of them was this A Taste of Lavender cookbook from Mountain Farm, amongst a trivial package of dried lavander inwards the back.

As shortly equally I got habitation I gave Mountain Farm's lavender lemonade recipe a try.

And I dear it.  Lemonade infused amongst the florally fragrant gustation of lavender.  But not too much, as well as thus it's overpowering.  It was only correct to me.

Over ice, a tall drinking glass of lavander lemonade is perfectly refreshing on a hot summertime day.  Yup, I'll hold out making lavander lemonade 1 time again ... for sure.

Lavender Lemonade

Source:  Adapted from A Taste of Lavender: Culinary Delights from Mountain Farm compiled past times Linda Thompson & Marilyn Cade

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

• 4 sprigs fresh lavander (flowers & stems) or nearly 1 T. dried lavander flowers
• 1 1/2 c. granulated saccharide
• 1 c. fresh lemon juice (about vi lemons)
• 1/4 c. fresh lime juice (about two limes)
• 2 quarts water

Directions

1. Bring H2O as well as saccharide to a boil inwards a large saucepan. When saccharide is dissolved, take away from heat.
2. Add lavender, lemon juice, as well as lime juice. Cool to room temperature, strain, as well as chill.
3. Serve over H2O ice garnished amongst lemon slices as well as lavander sprigs.

Enjoy!

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Blueberry-Lime Iced Tea

Almond Iced Tea

Classic Homemade Lemonade

7 Layer Cookies

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Merry Christmas inwards July!  My bloggy friend Yvonne at Stone Gable has a Christmas inwards July party going on correct now, as well as today she posted the most beautiful white poinsettia stockings.  Impressive.  Truly impressive.

While I conduct to alive inwards denial that unopen to local stores already accept their Christmas decorations out (I kid y'all non ... three weeks ago I saw ane shop putting them out!), Yvonne's Christmas inwards July party inspired me to percentage ane of our family's favorite Christmas-time cookies inwards laurels of the occasion.

Now, I nation Christmas-time cookies, non exactly Christmas cookies, because the beauty of these sugariness layer cookies is ... good ... they're non genuinely Christmas cookies.  Which way nosotros tin all enjoy their layered deliciousness any time of the year!

It exactly as well as hence happens that vii Layer Cookies are a staple of my Mother-in-Law's Christmas 24-hour interval cookie tray.  So our household unit of measurement does tend to cry upward of them equally Christmas cookies.

I did non accept the pleasance of coming together my hubby Mark's Dad.  But the storey goes that these were ane of his favorite cookies.  It's been told that, several years, Mark's Mom had to brand to a greater extent than of these correct earlier Christmas 24-hour interval because Mark's dad had eaten them all.  Ummm-hmmmm ... they're that good.

And they're alone vii ingredients.

Layered inwards a pan.

That's how they got the cite vii Layer Cookies.

You in all likelihood hadn't figured that out, had you??

Now, all snug inwards the baking pan, these cookies await all innocent, don't they?  But ...

... ane time y'all cutting into them, their layered awesomeness is revealed!  And layered awesomeness it is.  Truly.  Mark's Dad wouldn't steer us wrong! 

Thank y'all for stopping past times . We'd honey to accept y'all dorsum soon!

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vii Layer Cookies

Seven ingredients layered together inwards a pan brand amazingly delicious vii Layer Cookies. How tin y'all instruct incorrect amongst chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, coconut, as well as pecans?

prep time: 10 Mcook time: xxx Mtotal time: xl M

ingredients:

• 1/2 c. unsalted butter
• 1 1/2 c. graham cracker crumbs
• 1 c. flaked coconut
• 1 c. (6 oz.) chocolate chips
• 1 c. (6 oz.) butterscotch chips
• 1 (14 oz.) tin sweetened condensed milk (fat costless plant exactly fine)
• 1 c. chopped pecans

instructions:

How to laid upward vii Layer Cookies

1. Lightly spray a 9x13" baking dish amongst non-stick cooking spray.
2. Melt butter inwards the bottom of the baking dish. Add remaining ingredients inwards layers, inwards the gild listed, sprinkling each element evenly over the previous layer.
3. Bake at 325℉ for almost xxx minutes.
4. Let cool completely inwards the baking dish. Cut into small-scale squares.

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Lavender & Love Balsamic Vinaigrette

Well, I'm continuing my experiments inwards cooking alongside lavender, in addition to my 2nd experiment did non disappoint.  Just every bit inwards the lavender lemonade, I genuinely enjoyed the fragrant, floral notes of the lavander inwards this Lavender & Honey Balsamic Vinaigrette.  I gauge I'm a fan of the season of lavender!

And beingness an assistant apiculturist to my apiculturist hubby, I'm ever on the sentinel for novel recipes inwards which to role our love harvest.  So how could I resist trying out the lavander in addition to love combination of this balsamic vinaigrette?  I couldn't.

I too did a lilliputian experiment inside my lavander experiment.  I wanted to run into but what the dried lavander 'brought to the party,' in addition to thus to speak, inwards this dressing ... how much season it imparted, etc.  So I decided to brand the exact same dressing  minus the lavander to see. 

Well, allow me but tell ... the lavander brings a lot  to this dressing party!  In comparison the two, I genuinely wasn't a fan of the lavender-less version later on tasting the lavender-infused one.  (But you lot all know me, I'll travel along working alongside the lavender-less version to tweak the ingredient proportions ... 'cause I mean value a honey-balsamic vinaigrette dressing would last wonderful).

Served alongside a real uncomplicated salad, the lavander inwards this dressing genuinely shines through! 

Have you lot experimented alongside cooking alongside lavender?  I'd love to listen your favorites.

Lavender & Honey Balsamic Vinaigrette
Source:  Adapted from A Taste of Lavender: Culinary Delights from Mountain Farm compiled yesteryear Linda Thompson & Marilyn Cade
(Printable recipe)
Ingredients
half dozen T. extra virgin olive oil
2 T. balsamic vinegar
2 T. honey
1 T. fresh lemon juice
1 garlic clove, crushed
1 tsp. coarse grain mustard
1 tsp. dried lavander flowers


Directions
1.  Whisk all ingredients together.  Let correspond thirty minutes to allow the flavors to meld together.

2.  Whisk i time to a greater extent than in addition to serve.  Store inwards a container alongside a tight lid inwards the fridge for upward to a week.

Enjoy!

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Merry Christmas inwards July!  My bloggy friend Yvonne at Stone Gable has a Christmas inwards July party going on correct now, as well as today she posted the most beautiful white poinsettia stockings.  Impressive.  Truly impressive.

While I conduct to alive inwards denial that unopen to local stores already accept their Christmas decorations out (I kid y'all non ... three weeks ago I saw ane shop putting them out!), Yvonne's Christmas inwards July party inspired me to percentage ane of our family's favorite Christmas-time cookies inwards laurels of the occasion.

Now, I nation Christmas-time cookies, non exactly Christmas cookies, because the beauty of these sugariness layer cookies is ... good ... they're non genuinely Christmas cookies.  Which way nosotros tin all enjoy their layered deliciousness any time of the year!

It exactly as well as hence happens that vii Layer Cookies are a staple of my Mother-in-Law's Christmas 24-hour interval cookie tray.  So our household unit of measurement does tend to cry upward of them equally Christmas cookies.

I did non accept the pleasance of coming together my hubby Mark's Dad.  But the storey goes that these were ane of his favorite cookies.  It's been told that, several years, Mark's Mom had to brand to a greater extent than of these correct earlier Christmas 24-hour interval because Mark's dad had eaten them all.  Ummm-hmmmm ... they're that good.

And they're alone vii ingredients.

Layered inwards a pan.

That's how they got the cite vii Layer Cookies.

You in all likelihood hadn't figured that out, had you??

Now, all snug inwards the baking pan, these cookies await all innocent, don't they?  But ...

... ane time y'all cutting into them, their layered awesomeness is revealed!  And layered awesomeness it is.  Truly.  Mark's Dad wouldn't steer us wrong! 

Thank y'all for stopping past times . We'd honey to accept y'all dorsum soon!

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Cookies & Bars

Yield: About 24-30 cookies

Author: Tracey |

vii Layer Cookies

Seven ingredients layered together inwards a pan brand amazingly delicious vii Layer Cookies. How tin y'all instruct incorrect amongst chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, coconut, as well as pecans?

prep time: 10 Mcook time: xxx Mtotal time: xl M

ingredients:

• 1/2 c. unsalted butter
• 1 1/2 c. graham cracker crumbs
• 1 c. flaked coconut
• 1 c. (6 oz.) chocolate chips
• 1 c. (6 oz.) butterscotch chips
• 1 (14 oz.) tin sweetened condensed milk (fat costless plant exactly fine)
• 1 c. chopped pecans

instructions:

How to laid upward vii Layer Cookies

1. Lightly spray a 9x13" baking dish amongst non-stick cooking spray.
2. Melt butter inwards the bottom of the baking dish. Add remaining ingredients inwards layers, inwards the gild listed, sprinkling each element evenly over the previous layer.
3. Bake at 325℉ for almost xxx minutes.
4. Let cool completely inwards the baking dish. Cut into small-scale squares.

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