Lilac uses

These recipes were first posted on 1/5/2019.
I have updated  it As the last 3 weeks have been un seasonally warm and dry, the lilac blossom is peering over the fence.

I miss cooking it with Melendra, Sayaka, Simone, Tina and Yasmin so will be doing it for Mark and myself, and maybe it inspires others to try it out.

So  I did the lilac syrup which turned pretty pink when mixed with sparkling water.
As a main course we had the Asparagus and lemon orzo (it was a little on the salty side) but found out later that we had forgotten to add the dressing. Believe it or not, it was still a lovely meal..

Because of the last warm weeks, the chard is starting to bolt so I made a soup with this spinach tasting vegetable.  It was lovely to mix with frozen peas as well. With it, we also made a basic bread roll using the potato yeast which I made over night.  With a shortage of dried yeast this is a great find.



As a desert we had our lilac biscuit.

Lilac biscuits, Rhubarb and orange scones and Lilac and lemon Fizz

This Wednesday's From Spade to Plate  we made it an earlier session, which meant that it was too early for lunch, but good for an English tea party with biscuits and scones.



We start off by making some scone.
The rhubarb is ready too, so make some stewed rhubarb with orange zest for the 'scone topping, the rest of the rhubarb we put in ramakin dishes, added some topping made with a cup of chopped almonds,a teaspoon of orange zest and streussel

The Lilac blossom is out so thought we could make some drinks and tasty treats out of it.



We could make some lilac blossom  biscuits





and make a Lilac and lemon mocktail


This post was first aired 25/4/2018