If you are looking for easy, yet unique recipes using lavender, look no further than Olympic Lavender Farm where culinary commentator and author Kathy Gehrt will give Sequim Lavender Festival visitors tips on cooking with the purple herb.
Gehrt, author of her new book, “Discover Cooking with Lavender,” will demonstrate favorite recipes at 12:30 p.m., Friday, Saturday and Sunday during the Festival. She will show how to use lavender on a variety of foods, including chicken, fish, vegetables and baked goods. Sunday’s recipe is one of her favorites, grilled pear crostini.
Gehrt, who lives in Seattle, says she enjoys cooking and developing recipes using fresh, local and organic food.
“After 25 years as a technology executive, I decided to focus on my true passion which is creative cooking,” Gehrt said. My book sprang from my love for food, friendship and gardening.”
A compelling speaker, Gehrt has presented her popular cooking demonstration — A Lavender Feast — at the Sequim Lavender Festival and various culinary shops. It is a pleasure to welcome her back to this year’s Festival. “Discover Cooking with Lavender” is available at www.amazon.com or www.discoverlavender.com.
Sequim is the “Lavender Capital of North America®” and home of the Sequim Lavender Festival, the largest lavender event in the country. The Festival has been recognized as one of North America’s Top 100 Events by the American Bus Association. The Festival includes Farms on Tour, a Street Fair, and a wide range of community activities. Each farm offers fields of lavender, demonstrations, workshops, music, food, u-pick, lavender products and more. Three-day admission to the Farms on Tour is $15, with no charge for children 12 and under. The Street Fair in downtown Sequim offers more than 150 craftspeople, local lavender from members of the of local lavender, live music, great foods and wine and beer. Also located next to the Street Fair, the Family Fun on the Field event brings nonprofit organizations and families together for old-fashioned fun and games. There is no admission charge to the street fair.
Free parking is available downtown and at each of the farms and a free shuttle bus service connects the entire festival. For more information including transportation, accommodations, and directions please contact us by e-mail at info@lavenderfestival.com, website at www.lavenderfestival.com, or by telephone at (877) 681-3035 (toll free).
The Festival is proudly produced by the Sequim Lavender Growers Association® (SLGA), a community of farmers, committed to knowledge of how to grow better lavender with less effort in an environmentally sustainable way.
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