Lavender has a mild taste, but it works really well with vegetables like spinach, in wilted spinach salad, and asparagus. It's also a tasty addition to trout. If you'd like an easy recipe for making your own lavender salt, I included one in my herb blog, The Herb Gardener a couple of weeks ago.
I even have a great rub you can use with your newly made lavender salt. It's a flavorful addition to rabbit, lamb, and scallops. It uses green tea as a base, and although that sounds unusual, it's delicious:
Lavender Tea Rub Recipe2 tablespoons of green tea (ground fine)
½ teaspoon lavender salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
½ teaspoon dried lavender flowers (ground fine) optional
If you'd really like to amp up the lavender flavor, add a half teaspoon of lavender flowers to the tea mixture before you grind it.
