Once upon a time it was easy to buy bulk herbs and spices around here in small proportions, but now if they even have the herbs you end up having to buy prepackaged bags with fixed proportions. Which is how I ended up with a huge bag of lavender. It's a nice lavender sweet and spicy, not soapy thank goodness. But I still have tons left. I've given it away as sachets, drank it straight as tea, added it to my bath, and used it to flavour other teas. This is a continuation of project, move through the lavender.
Tonight I added the lavender to cocoa nibs, and cardamon.
You know what it's not too bad. Though I think next time. I'll use a little bit less lavender and add a little more cardamon. The lavender sweetened the cocoa and added a little bit of spice, and the cardamon was slightly detectable underneath, doing the same.
I'll have to try it again, but lavender actually goes quite nicely with chocolate.
around 1tbsp coca nibs, less than tsp of lavender, a couple cardamon pods, sreeped in a 16 oz mug for around 7 min.
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