This week I wanted to feature a couple of easy weeknight dinner ideas for two. Recently I've been cooking for just two of us. Its so easy to default to making the same go to familiar meals all week long. But there are plenty of delicious AND easy meals out there that can help you get out of your routine rut when you are only cooking for two. These meals can also easily be doubled or tripled for those busy moms out there with large families. 

The first meal this week I wanted to highlight is a vegetable naan pizza. It's crispy, savory, and a cinch to throw together. 

Buy pre-made stone fire naan breads. I prefer the full size, but if you are baking for children, the smaller personal size will work great too. The secret to a good home made pizza is the ingredients. Skip the preshredded mozzarella and go with fresh buffalo mozzarella, or in our case, we used goat cheese. Skip the premade hormel pepperoni, and use salami or proshutto to switch things up. Wash and coat some asparagus with olive oil and scatter across your pizza. Then, the finishing is also very important. Use a balsamic glaze to add acidity and sweetness. Top with fresh italian herbs and a sprinkle of lavender salt. Bake in an oven until your cheese bubbles and your naan is golden around the edges. This idea is simple, healthy, and most importantly delicious. 

Hope this helps you busy moms get out of your culinary rut. Clean out your fridge, get creative, and make naan pizza's tonight! 

Every week we try to highlight creative bloggers out on the cook books of the interweb that are doing a great job utilizing lavender in their cooking. Today we have a beauty for you. Behold! 

We have made a lot of wonderful scone recipes on this blog of ours, but today, I've found one I can't wait to make. Look at how beautiful and delicious these lavender scones from Half Baked Harvest are? But they aren't just lavender scones - they are blackberry lavender white chocolate scones. I'll give you a moment to pick your jaw up from the floor. Yes, that sounds pretty darn delectable if you ask me. So what are you doing? Go check out their blog right now. You won't regret it.

Every once in awhile we like to introduced ourselves and our farm to our new readers. And for our old readers we have some great new to you photos to share on the blog today. 

If you know Peggy, you know she is a fabulous cook. She became a trained chef in Paris during the time she lived there with her young family. Here she is in front of her home in Paris and with her husband and children there. 

After their time in France, the Nelson family moved to Park City where Mike designed them this beautiful home over looking a golf course.

After their children were all grown, Mike and Peggy Nelson decided to settled down in beautiful Cache Valley Utah. They live on a 6 acre farm nestled at the mouth of the Millville Canyon. They have over 80 apple trees in their orchard, many of which are vintage varieties, along with over 1000 Lavender plants across 2 fields. Hence their farm's name, "The Lavender Apple." 

But this farm is not new to the Nelson family. John and Hanna Nelson immigrated from Sweden in the early 1900's and purchased a large plot of land at the mouth of a beautiful canyon in Cache Valley.  The property has remained in the family for 3 generations.  This farm and the story of John and Hanna Nelson served as inspiration for Mike and Peggy to begin their small apple and lavender farm once affectionately know as the “rocky patch.”

Hope you enjoyed learning a little more about the Nelson family and what led them to this beautiful adventure here at The Lavender Apple. 

My camera memory card broke this weekend. And not just like stopped working, like crumbled into a million pieces in my hand. So all of the beautiful recipe photos I had ready for you this week are now forever just a memory on a broken memory card. So while we wait for good ol' amazon to prime me a new one, here are so gorgeous lavender bumble bee photos to make you smile today.