Welcome to another lavender recipe round up post. This week I found a recipe for something I've never heard of before. The brilliant bloggers over at Evermine made something called London Fog with Lavender. 

I love that they used vanilla sugar paired with culinary lavender. This blog is so beautiful. If you are looking for recipe inspiration to wow your friends and family, Evermine is a wonderful place to do so! 

Does using a crock pot feel like cheating to you? It totally does to me. But with a busy 3 year old son and an always gone medical student for a husband, I'm often running around very busy around dinner time. Crock pot meals typically won't yield the depth of flavor I want when I cook. But on days when your time and sanity is short, having a few good crock pot meals you can count on can really save the day. Today's recipe is a super simple fool proof crock pot asian orange chicken. 

Ingredients: 

4 chicken breasts (frozen is fine) 

1/3 cup barbecue sauce

1/3 cup orange marmalade

3 tablespoons soy sauce 

1 1/2 cup white rice

1 head brocoli

Directions: Place your chicken breasts in the crock pot on high for 2 hours until cooked. Cut your chicken into bite sized peices and drain the juice.  Place back in crock pot. Add your barbecue sauce, marmalade, soy sauce, and cook for an additional 1 hour on high. Mix with steamed brocoli and serve over white rice. 

This meal is satisfying, simple, and a sanity saver. Please don't judge me for using my crock pot. Bust yours out once in awhile. I promise you'll like it. 

Did you ever see the recipe on this blog for our Kitchen Sink Cookies? They are oh so good. I love them because they are packed full of healthy ingredients like omega 3's and lots of protein.  I am such a cookie lover, and these kitchen sink cookies are seriously my favorite. Since I'm a cookie person, I realized that I needed to start baking healthier versions of all of my favorites. This meant, less butter, less sugar, and more healthy ingredients added. Today we are featuring an adapted version of our beloved kitchen sink cookie recipe. I'm simply calling these Healthy Cookies. They are full of healthy ingredients, but also lower in fat and sugar than a traditional cookie. They have several kinds of fruit, flax, and nuts. You can munch on these and actually feel good about it! They will fix your cookie craving and do it in a way that is not completely bad for you. Enjoy!

Ingredients

1 mashed banana

3/4 cup white sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup butter room temp

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/8 cup flax

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoon baking soda

2 cups rolled oats

2 cups Cornflakes or Branflakes 

1 cup coconut 

1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans)

1/2 cup raisins 

1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. You want them just barely golden on the outside edge. If you use a cookie scoop, you should get about 45 cookies from this recipe. 

In keeping with our post from earlier this week, I thought today it would be fun to feature some bloggers who are doing an amazing job utilize lavender sugar in their baking. 

The first recipe are these lemon tea cookies from Everyday Dishes are perfection. Remember how we discussed how great lavender is when balanced with a bright citrus flavor? Well these guys are doing it deliciously. 

Our other tip was pairing lavender with dairy. This Lavender Honey Posset from The Adventure Bite is simply wonderful! Its right up our alley because they've made an extremely simple recipe feel fancy and fun. 

Go support these amazing bloggers and try your hand at baking with lavender sugar today!