{"id":2911,"date":"2011-05-17T10:13:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T17:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/?p=2911"},"modified":"2011-05-17T10:13:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T17:13:34","slug":"lavender-fusilli-pasta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/2011\/05\/17\/lavender-fusilli-pasta\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavender &amp; Fusilli Pasta &#124; Tastes of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>copyright 2011 art of living,PrimaMedia,Inc\/Maria Liberati<br \/>\nEditor: Caroline Walsh<br \/>\nLavender, my favorite summer ingredient, has quite a literary and culinary past (and present)<br \/>\n<a class=\"thickbox\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lavender.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"lavender\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lavender_thumb.jpg?resize=244%2C160&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"lavender\" width=\"244\" height=\"160\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><em>Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram;<br \/>\nThe marigold, that goes to bed wi&#8217; th&#8217; sun,<br \/>\nAnd with him rises weeping; these are flow&#8217;rs<br \/>\nOf middle summer, and I think they are given<br \/>\nTo men of middle age<\/em><\/strong>.<br \/>\n<strong><em>Shakespeare from a Winter\u2019s Tale<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nWith summer around the corner, thoughts of what to plant on our gardens abound&#8230; With peppers, tomatoes, strawberries, and everything else you could be planting, this season I would suggest you throw in some lavender! It is the new (or albeit old)\u00a0 and upcoming flavor to add to an array of foods. My favorite recipe is a refreshing cold pasta dish. It&#8217;s made with fusilli pasta, fresh peppers, olives and fresh lavender, flowers. A summertime refreshing pasta dish with the fragrance of lavender and a spritz of lemon juice. Here&#8217;s the recipe for what is sure to be one of your favorite dishes of the summer.<br \/>\n<strong>Lavender &amp; Fusilli Pasta<\/strong><br \/>\n<a class=\"thickbox\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fusilli-pasta.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"fusilli pasta\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fusilli-pasta_thumb.jpg?resize=244%2C164&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"fusilli pasta\" width=\"244\" height=\"164\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIngredients<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 yellow pepper<\/li>\n<li>1 red pepper<\/li>\n<li>2 tablespoons (30 gr) chopped olives<\/li>\n<li>4 lavender flowers<\/li>\n<li>1 lb (500 gr) fusilli pasta<\/li>\n<li>3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil<\/li>\n<li>Juice of \u00bd fresh lemon<\/li>\n<li>salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Directions<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cut and clean peppers removing seed. Place on cookie sheet under broiler for 10 minutes or until skin begins to burn. Remove. Let cool in a paper bag. Remove skin.Chop peppers. Place peppers in large bowl and add in chopped olives. Gently break apart lavender flowers and add to olive mixture. Add in olive oil and squeeze in \u00bd lemon and blend Set aside. Boil pasta till al dente. Place into olive oil condiment, toss and serve al fresco! Add salt and pepper to taste<\/li>\n<li>For more great recipes get your copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/products-page\/\">The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holidays &amp; Special Occasions <\/a>winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards<\/li>\n<li>June 11-12-See you at the Great Grapes Festival in Cockeysville, Maryland for wine tastings, and other events and \u00a0The Basic Art of Italian Cooking demos and a book signing on stage during the 2 day event, For more info email: info@marialiberati.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>copyright 2011 art of living,PrimaMedia,Inc\/Maria Liberati Editor: Caroline Walsh Lavender, my favorite summer ingredient, has quite a literary and culinary past (and present) Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,45,11,48,1478],"tags":[1105,975,427,71,1016,1137,1264,1035,997,1476,1023,1477,1345,1144],"class_list":["post-2911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caro-diariodear-diary","category-pasta-recipes-2","category-recipes","category-summer-recipes","category-vegetarian","tag-award-winning-author-maria-liberati","tag-celebrity-chef-maria-liberati","tag-cookbook","tag-cooking","tag-easy-dinner-recipe","tag-easy-gourmet-recipes","tag-easy-pasta-recipes","tag-farmhouse-cookbook","tag-female-celebrity-chef-maria-liberati","tag-fusilli-pasta","tag-gourmet-cookbook","tag-lavender","tag-the-basic-art-of-italian-cooking-by-maria-liberati-tm","tag-the-basic-art-of-italian-cooking-holidays-special-occasions"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}