Lavender

PSA: Edible lavender is different from the stuff in your potpourri dish.

If the joy of frolicking in a field of flowers could be captured in a cookie, it would be these crackly, chewy lavender-lemon crinkle cookies.

This savory-sweet salad can be a bright summer side or even light dessert.

These sugary, salty, fatty almonds are how diners can begin a meal at Jeremy Fox's Rustic Canyon. Thanks to a tactical addition of lavender, your guests will actually talk about them.

Your food needs some flower water. We know how that sounds, but we've got 13 recipes that prove why you need to pick up some rose and orange blossom water right now.

To use loose leaf tea, substitute ½ teaspoon per bag.

Dip strawberries into the creamy thing first, then the crunchy one.

Look for culinary lavender at specialty food stores, tea and spice shops, or online.

These deceptively simple lavender shortbread wreaths will rule your next cookie swap.

Candied herbs, edible dried flowers, and freeze-dried berries are beautiful decorations for these iced cookie wreaths.