Cooking
With Lavender
by
Suzanne Smith of Los Alamos, NM
$12.95
retail
With
Los Poblanos on the cover, this is the ultimate
New
Mexico cookbook for lavender!
Thursday, October 9, 2008 -- BOOK SIGNING FOR COOKING
WITH LAVENDER
Barbe
Awalt will be signing copies of the new book Cooking with
Lavender at Treasure House, 2012 S Plaza NW, Old Town
Albuquerque at 12noon to 2pm.
Saturday,
July 12, 2008 -- BOOK SIGNING AT BOOKWORKS
There will be a book signing for "Cooking with Lavender"
with Barbe Awalt at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd,
Albuquerque, from 11am to 12noon.
Love
that fragrant lavender in your garden? Try cooking with
it!
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;
“This is a fabulous collection of recipes, and the
introduction has lots of fascinating lore about
lavender.” — Barbara Loth, homemaker and lavender grower,
Greytown, OH
“Imaginative, achievable recipes for those of us who like
to experiment in the kitchen. With this book, you can
start your own culinary adventures today!” — Corey
Bishop, amateur chef, Port Huron, MI
“Since the first Spanish settlers brought lavender,or
(alhucema)
to our region centuries ago, it has been used for its
soothing medicinal and aromatic properties, as well as in
cooking. This cookbook will help many enjoy the wonders
of lavender. We at Los Poblanos Lavender fields (on
historic farmland in the Rio Grande River Valley) look
forward to using this book.” — Penny Rembe, Los Poblanos
Lavender Fields, Los Ranchos, NM
Suzanne T. Smith is the
author of five books, chapters in two other books, and
more than a hundred magazine and newspaper articles. Her
previous cookbooks, Recipes for
Romance and Pumpkin
Recipes, are being received
enthusiastically and are reaping extensive praise. She
teaches advanced writing classes at the University of New
Mexico at Los Alamos and cooks for her husband and dogs.
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!