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I love Fall with all the leaves of the trees turning colors, the shorter days and cooler nights, the chance to snuggle up on the couch. It is the time to enjoy a good book, a great tv series or think up some amazing recipes to try. This is how this one came to fruition..a need for a little relaxation on a Friday night mixed with a little vodka and some apple cider. The inspiration of Fall, the harvest of apples, and our enduring love of Lavender Simple Syrup made this cocktail complete.  Fall requires its own celebration of Apples and Lavender and the beautiful combination of flavors that they lend to one another. A bit of sweet and bit of tang, blending together to make this exciting cocktail.  The recipe takes just moment to make. We say try one, the second one modify the recipe to add more or less of the ingredients. This is the ratios we liked. Cheers! Apple Lavender Martini 1 oz Apple Cider 1 oz Vodka .5 oz lemon juice .5 oz Lavender Simple Syrup In a cocktail shaker add a cup of ice and then your apple cider, vodka, lemon juice and lavender simple syrup. Give it a few good shakes and pour into martini glasses garnished with Lavender Cocktail Picks and sliced apple.  Feel free to share our recipe, but please remember to tag us as well as our photos. Thank you and cheers. All pictures are copyrighted Norwood Lavender Farm.
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 It's chocolate lovers week for us...just can't help it! Lavender Chocolate Cookies made with our Chocolate Lavender Cake Mix! I needed to take some cookies to an event last week and I really needed some chocolate so I whipped out of our Chocolate Lavender Cake Mix and started to create. They are good, quick, fast and approved....#canteatjustone so be forewarned! Chocolate Lavender Cookies 1 package of Lavender Chocolate Cake Mix 1 egg 1/4 cup oil 1/4 cup chocolate chips (opt.) Mix all ingredients together in medium bowl. With a small cookie scoop drop rounded dough onto a greased cookie sheet. Cook in a preheated 350℉ oven for 10-12 minutes!  Upside down cakes have been around since the 1800s, but the style of baking with fruit and cakes dates as far back as the Middle Ages with what was known first as skillet cakes. These were basically upside down cakes cooked in cast iron skillets. As kids we often had upside down cakes and for generations it has been brought to potluck and family gatherings. I wanted to bring back this warm tradition for my kids. Well of course ours always has to have a lavender twist to it! Our White Lavender Cake Mix is similar to a sponge cake. Dense with a burst of beautiful lavender flavor.   Peach Lavender Upside Down Cake 2 Peaches 1 Package Lavender Cake Mix 3/4 cup water 2 eggs 2 Tbsp oil Directions Slice two fresh peaches in 1/4 inch slices. Set aside. Line a 9 inch baking pan with parchment paper greased with butter. Layer your peaches in a circular pattern on the bottom of your pan on top of buttered parchment paper. In a medium sized mixing bowl make Lavender Cake Mix according to package instructions. Pour prepared cake batter over your layered peaches. Bake at preheated 350º F oven for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Let cool for 10 minutes, then dump your cake out of pan onto serving tray.    Ingredients needed 4 cups blackberries 1/2 cup sugar + 2 Tablespoons 1 Tablespoon cornstarch 1 Lavender Scone Mix 1/3 cup butter 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla Mix together 4 cups blackberries (fresh or frozen) 1/4-1/2 cup sugar 1 Tablespoon cornstarch Add to a 9x9 baking dish and set aside. In a mixing bowl follow instructions for scone mix. Flatten on a parchment paper, cut into squares and add to top of blackberries. Sprinkle scone mix topping with sugar. Bake in 350º F oven for 45-50 minutes or until golden brown and cobbler scone topping is cooked.     Playing around with several mimosa ideas and I hit the sweet spot! This is sooo very delicious perfect for a holiday, cocktail party, brunch or wedding! Blueberry Lavender Mimosa
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Products featuring lavender and other florals flavors have increased in popularity by 132% since 2015 (source: Innova Market Insights). Rose, Lavender, Hibiscus and Elderflower continue to be the leading choices and expected to continue to gain traction and visibility in 2019. Their natural appeal and their exotic notes make them a winner for new product launches in any application, from biscuits to yogurt, drinks or snacks (source: www.itstaste.com/news/flavour-trends-2018-19).
We will continue to develop more lavender recipes using our culinary lavender in the new year. Don't forget to check out our lavender products we have Lavender Hot Chocolate Mix, Lavender Lemonade Mix, Lavender Simple Syrup, Lavender Shortbread Cookie Mix, Lavender Scone Mix as well as Lavender Cocktail Picks . Here is to cooking with lavender this year, cheers!
Happy New Years!
One of my goals this year is to do a little more pampering. That is always a good idea, but I seem to get busy and ignore myself. I think that is a common problem with so many of us.
This is just a basic face mask recipe that you'll find everywhere online. It is versatile and you can change up the recipe to fit your face type.
Flat champagne and wine can actually help as a toner on the skin. The antioxidants and tartaric acid helps to tone the skin while the antibacterial properties help fight elements that promote acne.
What a great way to use up leftover champagne and pamper yourself at the same time!
May this new year brings good things for you!
One of my goals this year is to do a little more pampering. That is always a good idea, but I seem to get busy and ignore myself. I think that is a common problem with so many of us.
This is just a basic face mask recipe that you'll find everywhere online. It is versatile and you can change up the recipe to fit your face type.
Flat champagne and wine can actually help as a toner on the skin. The antioxidants and tartaric acid helps to tone the skin while the antibacterial properties help fight elements that promote acne.
What a great way to use up leftover champagne and pamper yourself at the same time!
May this new year brings good things for you!
Lavender Champagne Mask
1/2 cup (4 oz.) of powdered clay
Add 2 tbsp. (1 oz.) of either heavy cream or plain yogurt
1/4 cup (2 oz.) of flat champagne and stir until combined.
2 drops Norwood Farm lavender essential oil
Add 2 tbsp. (1 oz.) of either heavy cream or plain yogurt
1/4 cup (2 oz.) of flat champagne and stir until combined.
2 drops Norwood Farm lavender essential oil
Mix all ingredients until smooth, place on face. Let sit on face for 3-15 minutes and then wash off with warm water.
I like easy and simple cooking. Here is something that can be put together quickly, tastes great and can be served for the family or special company. That's what I like, no fuss cooking that tastes and looks great!
I love how pretty the crumbs look with the lavender and crumbs all mixed and ready to put on the fish.
Top the fish with crumb mixture and bake. Easy. Simple. Quick.
Hazelnut Crusted Fish with Lavender
2 tsp. dried culinary lavender
2 tsp. olive oil
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
1/2 tsp. salt
Pinch pepper
1/2 cup bread crumbs
1/4 cup hazelnuts, ground or nut of choice
1 lb. skinless salmon
Combine bread crumbs, hazelnuts, dried culinary lavender, garlic powder, salt, and
pepper. Stir in 1 tsp. oil and set aside. Dip salmon into crumb mixture to coat. Lay the
salmon on top of a parchment lined baking sheet. Press some more crumbs on top and
spray with a little cooking spray. Bake in 425º F oven for about
10-13 minutes, depending on thickness. Serve with lemon slices.
2 tsp. olive oil
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
1/2 tsp. salt
Pinch pepper
1/2 cup bread crumbs
1/4 cup hazelnuts, ground or nut of choice
1 lb. skinless salmon
Combine bread crumbs, hazelnuts, dried culinary lavender, garlic powder, salt, and
pepper. Stir in 1 tsp. oil and set aside. Dip salmon into crumb mixture to coat. Lay the
salmon on top of a parchment lined baking sheet. Press some more crumbs on top and
spray with a little cooking spray. Bake in 425º F oven for about
10-13 minutes, depending on thickness. Serve with lemon slices.
Try this Sparkling Christmas Cocktail with Lavender! 🍾
We love to support local as well as get involved with opportunities that give back to the community and those less fortunate. We met Cara Bartel with ONEHOPE Wine at a holiday event when she was sampling the many different wines that they offer. I love the concept that they were established to have each bottle provide a certain amount to go to a charity. ONEHOPE was founded by eight friends with a lofty vision: to create exceptional products that inspire people to indulge while doing good. Their commitment to quality wine is as important as our commitment to the causes they support. To date they have made more than $3 million in donations, provided 46,000 people with global health care, 49,000 forever homes for shelter animals, 1.8 million meals for children, 163,000 life-saving vaccines!
We love to support local as well as get involved with opportunities that give back to the community and those less fortunate. We met Cara Bartel with ONEHOPE Wine at a holiday event when she was sampling the many different wines that they offer. I love the concept that they were established to have each bottle provide a certain amount to go to a charity. ONEHOPE was founded by eight friends with a lofty vision: to create exceptional products that inspire people to indulge while doing good. Their commitment to quality wine is as important as our commitment to the causes they support. To date they have made more than $3 million in donations, provided 46,000 people with global health care, 49,000 forever homes for shelter animals, 1.8 million meals for children, 163,000 life-saving vaccines!
I purchased a bottle of Sparkling Brut that helps to provides 2 meals to a child in need. It has a crisp, fresh with a sweet peach flavor, with delicate sweet berries mixed with light pears, finishing with creamy and refreshing bubbles. This Brut Sparkling Wine is flexible when pairing with foods and is suggested to go with appetizers, seafood, sushi as well as a wide range of desserts and cheeses.
We paired it in our cocktail combined with our Lavender Simple Syrup and coconut milk. Garnish with our Lavender Cocktail Picks and maybe a cranberry for Christmas or a slice of lime.
We paired it in our cocktail combined with our Lavender Simple Syrup and coconut milk. Garnish with our Lavender Cocktail Picks and maybe a cranberry for Christmas or a slice of lime.
Sparkling Christmas Cocktail with Lavender
serves 2
In a cocktail shaker add:
2 shots coconut milk
1 shot Norwood Farm Lavender Simple Syrup
Ice
Shake and pour into 2 champagne flutes
Top with bubbly wine or champagne
Garnish with Norwood Farm Lavender Cocktail Picks
Cheers!
serves 2
In a cocktail shaker add:
2 shots coconut milk
1 shot Norwood Farm Lavender Simple Syrup
Ice
Shake and pour into 2 champagne flutes
Top with bubbly wine or champagne
Garnish with Norwood Farm Lavender Cocktail Picks
Cheers!
Nothing beats the classic, old-fashioned home made classic beef stew! Its hot, comfort food that will make your belly say yumm!
Beef Stew with Lavender
A quick little saute of onions, garlic and beef chuck meat cut into 1 inch chunks.
Nothing beats these chopped traditional veggies!
Beef Stew with Lavender
Recipe developed by Nicole Callen with Norwood Farm
1 lb beef chuck, cut into 1 inch pieces
1 onion, diced
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 Tbl oil
4 medium potatoes, diced
3 celery stalks, diced
4 carrots, diced
1/2 cup mushrooms, diced
3 cups beef or vegetable broth
1/4 cup red wine
2 tsp culinary lavender
1/2 tsp oregano
1/2 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1/4 cup flour
1/2 cup cream or milk
Directions
1. Saute in a medium skillet the onion, garlic and beef stew cubes in 1 Tbl. oil on medium-high heat. Cooking about 5 minutes or until meat in browned.
2. Stir in all chopped vegetables, broth, wine and all herbs. Stir and simmer for 20 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
3. Add to small bowl 1/4 cup flour and 1/2 cup milk, wisk until combined. Add milk mixture to stew and stir until thickened, about 5 minutes.
1 lb beef chuck, cut into 1 inch pieces
1 onion, diced
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 Tbl oil
4 medium potatoes, diced
3 celery stalks, diced
4 carrots, diced
1/2 cup mushrooms, diced
3 cups beef or vegetable broth
1/4 cup red wine
2 tsp culinary lavender
1/2 tsp oregano
1/2 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1/4 cup flour
1/2 cup cream or milk
Directions
1. Saute in a medium skillet the onion, garlic and beef stew cubes in 1 Tbl. oil on medium-high heat. Cooking about 5 minutes or until meat in browned.
2. Stir in all chopped vegetables, broth, wine and all herbs. Stir and simmer for 20 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
3. Add to small bowl 1/4 cup flour and 1/2 cup milk, wisk until combined. Add milk mixture to stew and stir until thickened, about 5 minutes.
A friend recently posted all about these ziplock popsicle bags. Ingenious is what I thought. I had to give it a try so I purchased these on Amazon. I have a list of things that I want to make to put in them like smoothie style pops and fresh berries pureed. But there has been one that I've been thinking about since I first saw these bags.
I love making dirty lemonades on a Friday after a long week using our Lavender Lemonade and vodka. So to toast to a great weekend here how I made up some dirty lemonade pops!
Dirty Lemonade Pops
2 cups Lavender Lemonade prepared (or beverage of your choice)
3/4 cup vodka
Combine the lemonade and vodka and pour them up to the fill line of your popsicle bag.
Freeze for about 24 hours and cheers to your weekend! Of course make the kids some without alcohol and make sure to label which ones are "dirty".
For a slushy style drink. Pour your frozen popsicle into a cocktail glass and pour over seltzer water, stir slightly and serve.
I love making dirty lemonades on a Friday after a long week using our Lavender Lemonade and vodka. So to toast to a great weekend here how I made up some dirty lemonade pops!
Dirty Lemonade Pops
2 cups Lavender Lemonade prepared (or beverage of your choice)
3/4 cup vodka
Combine the lemonade and vodka and pour them up to the fill line of your popsicle bag.
Freeze for about 24 hours and cheers to your weekend! Of course make the kids some without alcohol and make sure to label which ones are "dirty".
For a slushy style drink. Pour your frozen popsicle into a cocktail glass and pour over seltzer water, stir slightly and serve.
| I love strawberries and it is nearly strawberry season so I wanted to experiment using our lavender scone mix to make these delectable strawberry shortcakes. They are really good you need to try them! Recipe 1 Lavender Scone Mix (or a scone mix or your choice @ 11 oz size) 3/4 cups milk 3 Tbl. melted butter Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a bowl combine the scone mix, milk and melted butter stir until combined. With a large cookie scoop gather about 2" size of dough, dip into a lavender sugar or plain sugar and place on cookie sheet with parchment or silipat. Bake for 13 minutes or until lightly golden. Makes 10 shortcakes Serve with sliced strawberries, mixed with a little bit of your lavender sugar and cool whip. Enjoy! |   |
When working on this recipe I was wanting to make a breakfast cookie or bar. I think you could call it a breakfast cookie as it has blueberries and oatmeal. Although, I think it is more of a cookie once I added the brown sugar. Maybe someone else could redesign it by eliminating the brown sugar to be more of a breakfast cookie...but I like it this way. Next time I am thinking of add a touch of lemon peel to make a lemon lavender blueberry version.
1 Norwood Farm Lavender Scone mix
1 cup Oats
1 stick Butter, softened
1 cup Brown sugar
1 whole egg
1 tsp vanilla extract or optional 1/2 tsp lavender extract
½ cups milk
1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries
Preheat the oven to 350°F and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
1) In a large bowl, blend together scone mix and oats. Set aside.
2) In a medium sized bowl beat together the butter and brown sugar on medium-high speed until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg and extract until well combined.
3) On low speed, mix into butter mixture half of the flour mixture until combined.
4) Mix in the milk and the rest of the flour mixture.
5) Mix on low speed until combined.
6) Stir in the blueberries.
7) Using a cookie scoop place dough onto the lined baking sheets.
Bake at 350°F for 20 minutes or until golden.
I was craving chocolate and began my hunt for a delicious looking chocolate cookie recipe. I came across Christi's recipe from, Love From the Oven it looked so yummy with bits of chocolate chunks and marshmallows oozing out of them. So of course I couldn't resist using our Norwood Farm gourmet Lavender Hot Chocolate Mix!
 | This recipe uses small dehydrated marshmallows. You can also just use regular mini marshmallows if that is all you have on hand. |
The Lavender Hot Chocolate gives it just a hint of lavender. If you find you want more lavender taste you can add our Lavender Extract in place of vanilla extract.
Lavender Honey Chia Pudding
I have been on a total chia pudding binge lately. I have had to make it in almost every flavor until I said, "I need to make a honey and lavender chia pudding recipe!". So here is what I have come up with.
I used our Norwood Farm Lavender Extract which always seems to add a element of sweet surprise to desserts. Lavender has the ability to blend with fine chocolate, harmonize with the delicate flavors of fresh lemons, peaches, or heighten the taste of honey which is what I was counting on in this recipe.
In addition I used our Norwood Farm Culinary Lavender but ground the buds up in a coffee grinder so that it could contribute to the lavender flavor yet not be distracting with the whole buds.
I love this it made me feel like I was taking a bite of summer in with every spoonful. I personally don't prefer my treats to be really sweet so I would decrease the honey but that could be that the lavender extract brings that oomph out the honey. Try this recipe and see what you think of it.
I have been on a total chia pudding binge lately. I have had to make it in almost every flavor until I said, "I need to make a honey and lavender chia pudding recipe!". So here is what I have come up with.
I used our Norwood Farm Lavender Extract which always seems to add a element of sweet surprise to desserts. Lavender has the ability to blend with fine chocolate, harmonize with the delicate flavors of fresh lemons, peaches, or heighten the taste of honey which is what I was counting on in this recipe.
In addition I used our Norwood Farm Culinary Lavender but ground the buds up in a coffee grinder so that it could contribute to the lavender flavor yet not be distracting with the whole buds.
I love this it made me feel like I was taking a bite of summer in with every spoonful. I personally don't prefer my treats to be really sweet so I would decrease the honey but that could be that the lavender extract brings that oomph out the honey. Try this recipe and see what you think of it.
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I am Nicole Callen, lavender lover, farmer, and owner of Norwood Farm. My intention for this page is to bring you great lavender related content that you can use. Most of it contains culinary adventures that transpire in my kitchen, as I have a love for the complex floral flavor and depth that lavender brings to cooking.
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