Jardin du Soleil Lavender Farm, Bath & Body Products

Since the temperature has dropped a bit, this recipe for Rice Pudding with Jardin du Soleil Culinary Lavender should hit the spot!

Ingredients

½ cup rice

2 ½ cup whole milk

1 cup boiling water

2 tablespoons Jardin du Soleil Culinary Lavender

2/3 cup sugar

2 ½ tablespoons cornstarch

Instructions

Put milk, sugar and Jardin du Soleil Culinary Lavender in a small pot, bring to boiling point, and remove from heat immediately. Let the mixture steep for at least 30 minutes, longer depending on how strong you wish lavender flavor to be. In a separate pot, add rice to boiling water; cook on medium heat with the lid half closed for 15 minutes, or until water is absorbed by the rice.

In a small bowl, mix cornstarch together with a couple teaspoons of water and a bit of the hot milk mixture, to slightly increase the cornstarch temperature.  Then add the this to the steeping milk.  Transfer the infused milk through a strainer into the rice and cook for 30 minutes or so, until you reach the desired consistency.  Transfer the pudding into your serving dish and refrigerate, covered with plastic wrap, until serving.

Looking for something a bit richer? Try our Jardin du Soleil Lavender Crème Brulee! (It’s the 5^th recipe down.)

SPRING CLEANING SPECIAL! It is just like Spring at Jardin du Soleil Lavender and it is only the last month of February.  Our fruit trees and daffodils are already blooming!  The lavender is still pretty dormant and this is good as we do not want early flowers.  But we are in the mood for Spring Cleaning!  So we are making our  Lavender Linen Closet gift available at a special price of $24.00 so that you will have all you need to start your spring cleaning.  Refresh your linens with our Lavender Dryer Sachets, spritz the guest linens with Lavender  Linen Water and put a lavender sachet or two in the linen closet.  Renew your lavender potpourri with lavender buds from our last harvest.  Put new bars of Jardin du Solell lavender soap in your bathrooms to diffuse the fragrance and put yourself in the mood for Spring and Summer and lavender. Linen Closet Special good through 3/06/10

Hello All,

Sorry about missing you last week, but the Northwest Garden Show was on my 'to do' list. Jardin du Soleil owners, Pam and Randy, had volunteered to man the Sequim Lavender Association information booth. It was a long day in Seattle, but I found some unique hostas to add to our collection in the gardens at JDS. One was called the Drinking Gourd, which is apparently a deformed hybrid, and the other was called the T-REX, growing up to three feet tall with eight inch wide leaves. Very cool.

Drinking Gourd Hosta

Back on the farm this week, I have almost finished the pond. The waterfall, filter, and pump are all in. All I have left are asthetics and rockery. And soon Pam can have her fish!

Watch for updated photos! Happy Gardening!

Boo

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