A few terrific ways to use lavender in the kitchen

Think about what to do with all the lavender that you grow in your kitchen? Here are a few ways how you can use this fragrant plant. They include both the most common and affordable, and a little more refined and patience-based options.

Dry and save

How can you not love lavender? This plant practically does not require care and is resistant to dryness. It attracts bees and butterflies, but not deer and rabbits. It can be used in cosmetology, medicine and even in cooking. A wonderful scent, which has been valued throughout the world for centuries, is refreshing, clean, soft and soothing. To enjoy the scent of lavender for a whole year, you need to dry it and keep it. To achieve this, you will need to hang it with bunches of flowers down in a dark, dry room until all moisture evaporates from it.

How to grow lavender?

Growing lavender is very easy. It is best felt in hot and sunny conditions, when planted in well-fertilized soil with reliable drainage. To prolong the flowering time, combine different types of lavender. Some species bloom early, while others bloom later.

Companions for lavender

When you plan to plant plants on your windowsill or in the yard, you should think about what and with what you will combine. For planting next to lavender, it is recommended to choose plants with similar characteristics.

Variety of colors

Not all kinds of lavender have, so to speak, lavender color. You can find plants that bloom in different shades of violet and blue, as well as with white, red, pink and even yellowish-green flowers. Combine different types of lavender for a more impressive visual effect.

Many ways to use lavender

There are a lot of ways to use lavender. Small her ligaments can be hung in closets and closets to flavor them, and also to scare off insects. Also, you can add dried lavender to a cooling drink in the summer or sprinkle with dried flowers your favorite dessert. Lavender can be used to soften the skin or just to decorate your home.

Relax tension

Lavender can relieve tension. You can massage yourself a whiskey using a few drops of body oil with lavender to make it easier to fall asleep.

Powdering

You will forget about pieces of chocolate and chocolate chips when you start sprinkling your ice cream with lavender petals.

Lavender decoration

You can decorate the glasses with a refreshing drink, adding to each of them a sprig of lavender as a spoon to stir the contents.

Cream with lavender

Greek yoghurt, lemon zest and dried lavender will help create an incredible cream for your favorite dessert.

Wreath of dried lavender

When you come home after a hard day and immediately feel the smell of a pleasant smell, it will be hard not to feel more relaxed and relaxed.

Soap with lavender

If you are doing soap yourself, then you should definitely try adding lavender to it, because the result will be simply amazing.

Baking with lavender

You can also use dried lavender to add it to baking. If you approach the process creatively, then you can have many new recipes, which you can please your family and guests.

Combination with blueberries

This point refers directly to the previous one: it is a small advice on the use of lavender. Combine it with blueberries, and you will get incredible taste and aroma, which will suit both for a festive table, and for the most ordinary breakfast.

Vase with lavender

If you do not know which vase to put in the center of the table, you can take a few small vessels, each of which place a little lavender, and then create a full composition in the center of the table.

Lemonade

Another way to use lavender is to make lemonade with the addition of these flowers. Why suffer and in every glass to put lavender, if you can immediately prepare a drink, adding a few twigs to it?

Hot chocolate with lavender

Recipe for the most comfortable evening in history: an interesting book, a rug and this hot aromatic chocolate with the addition of lavender.

Cottage cheese with lavender

Also, you can add lavender to cottage cheese, which makes it much more flavorful and tasty. You can eat such cottage cheese as an independent dish, and you can cook with its use a variety of pastries.

Cake made of thin pancakes with lavender

If you like to fold thin pancakes with a mountain, making them a full-fledged cake, you can try adding some lavender to this recipe to get a completely new and unusual taste and aroma.

Creme brulee with lavender

If you love and know how to prepare cream-brulee, then you will most likely like the new version of this recipe, which also involves the use of lavender.

Honey cake with lavender

Two tablespoons of lavender petals in combination with honey and Greek yogurt will allow you to make a simple and delicious cake that you can eat both at home and at a picnic.

Bath salt with lavender

If you use bath salts, then you should try mixing it with lavender petals. The result will be incredible.

Crostini with lavender and honey

As you can already see, lavender and honey are a perfect combination that can be used in almost all pastries, as well as in other dishes. But only in the event that you do not have allergies to either honey or flowers.

Soda with lavender

If you like to cook soda at home, but do not want it to be tasteless, and adding sweeteners does not seem like a good idea, you can use lavender, as it will give your drink a refreshing taste and aroma.

Spray for bed linen

If you like to refresh your bed linens and towels before using, then you should try to make a similar product that will not include any chemicals and will refresh your things in a completely natural way.

Lavender and vanilla

About the combination with honey, it has already been said enough, so you should pay attention to one more combination that can completely change your ideas about making sweet.

Ice cream with edible flowers

If you want to make incredible candies, then you need to freeze in the water (with the addition of those ingredients that retain the transparency of the water) lavender petals.

Pouches with lavender

Filling the fabric bags with dried lavender, you create both incredible gifts, and excellent stylish flavors for your entire home.

Body scrub from coconut and lavender

Do you want to make a natural body scrub? To do this, you will need only six ingredients: ginger, coconut oil, almond oil, sugar, salt and lavender essential oil.

Marshmallow with lavender and honey

Once again, you should remember that the combination of lavender and honey is something incredible. And if you add this marshmallow to your hot chocolate, then you can not continue to drink it with other ingredients.

Postcards

To make cards, cards, plaques and other similar elements more attractive, attach a bunch of dried lavender to them.