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.

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.

Want to cook with lavender but have no idea where to begin? Well, don't fret! With the help of this recipe book, you'll be able to put up 30 delicious recipes that have the beautiful, floral undertone of lavender through them! Using simple ingredients, you'll be able to put up delicious lavender recipes in no time! And best of all, they'll taste super delicious!

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

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.

An attractive 24-page booklet-style recipe sampler with 27 well-tested recipes and 18 colorful accompanying photos. Recipes are doable for cooks from novice to experienced and range from beverages, appetizers, mains and sides, to sweets and desserts and basic staples. All recipes include helpful introductions and/or tips for success, plus an introductory page provides basic guidelines and how-tos on cooking with culinary lavender. This attractive and compact sampler is perfect for those wanting to discover how this surprisingly versatile culinary herb can magically enhance the taste of many sweet and savory dishes.