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!