Lavender Lizzie, isn’t the color beautiful? For one ticket/$6.00 you could shop while sipping on Blanco’s Lavender Festival signature cocktail in a beautiful commemorative glass.
They had ready made bottles of this wonderful syrup for sale at the food tent. Chill and serve over champagne. Hubby suggested I should buy a couple of bottles to enjoy year round. I agreed suggesting we swing by after we had enjoyed the festival to purchase them as to save us lugging them around for hours. Well that never happened due to tired kids, heat and increasing crowds. I was so upset with myself until I browsed the festival cookbook and found another great cocktail. First enjoy some pics from the festival then we make cocktails. Please don’t forget to enter to win a copy of the cookbook and a tub of local lavender ready to use, for all your summer cooking. (click here to enter) Enjoy!! Sweetlife
TEXAS SOURCE— www.blancolavenderfestival.com
Butterfly Potato Chips, I have to be honest- I wasn’t feeling these, they were soggy-not at all crispy
Deep fried pickles, Chuls and I shared these…she informed me we must recreate these at home..I quickly agreed… so I could continue to stuff my face.
Trees of welded iron with wine bottles as limbs, they were beautiful- I quickly imagined them in my backyard…
Local artists’, showcasing their work…
Lavender products – soaps, lotions, oil, perfumes, candles, etc……
For your wine,
Lavender plants, we couldn’t resist one for each mom,
Blackberry- Lavender Champagne Cocktail
from The Local Flavor of Lavender
serves 1
1 ounce blackberry liqueur or Chambord
1 ounce pomegrante juice
1/4 ounce fresh lemon juice
1 ounce Lavender syrup (recipe follows)
Ice
Champagne
Blackberries for garnish
Mix blackberry liqueur, pomegranate juice, lemon juice, and lavender syrup in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain the mixture into a champagne flute and top with champagne.
Garnish with blackberries.
Lavender Syrup
from The Local Flavor of Lavender
1 cup water
1 cup sugar
2 tbsp dried culinary lavender buds
In a small saucepan, bring water and sugar to a boil. Stir mixture until dissolved. Remove from heat and add lavender buds. Cover and allow lavender to infuse into the sugar syrup. Strain into a glass container, cover, and refrigerate for up to a few weeks.
LOVELY! Love the colours and everything. You should come to visit my prairie city. We could be drinking these and many other beverages on the deck.
Looks like you and the famille had a wonderful time 🙂
Making this recipe this week as a friend and client just invited me to do drive by’s her place and snatch loads of lavender growing wild in her garden! Thanks for luscious pics and nice to have found you this morning! 🙂
The lavender syrup is in the files for the future.
I will defiantly be waiting for those fried pickles recipe. Great cocktail recipe for summer. I loved the way little blackberries are floating.
That has to be one of the prettiest summer cocktails ever devised. I do love lavender. It must be at my back door and front door for luck. Fried pickles? Love festivals and what they come up with!
Wow, that drink is startlingly beautiful when held up to the light 🙂
Love the horns on the wine rack. Totally Texas.
What a shame about those chips! They looked good!
Those potato chips look fantastic.
what a creative cocktail!
fried pickles and champagne cocktails–an unexpected and delightful combination. 🙂
LOVE the lavender lizzies and I would have been right there with you stuffing my face with deep fried pickles!
As for that blackberry cocktail, it looks devilishly delish! Ooh and the syrup, WOW!!!
And as usual Bonnie, you’ve done the pics in your signature style which is always fabulous!!! 🙂
Thanks for sharing such a lovely trip with us.
Ciao, Devaki @ weavethousandflavors
A great event! That cocktail looks so refreshing and delicious!
Cheers,
Rosa
I can feel the fantastic scent of lavender while reading this post. The cocktail looks gorgeous! I didn’t know lavender can be used in drinks, I bet it gives an impressive touch to the cocktail.
MAGNIFIQUE.
J’aime la lavande.
A bientôt et bon weekend.
Ooh a blackberry lavender champagne cocktail has my name on it, maybe two.
The color of lavender lizzie is extraordinary!
Sounds like a terrific day.
LL
What a great festival! Love the cocktail – this is a must make. Also – I have heard of deep fried pickles – yet to have them.
Interesting post. Awesome cocktail.
Be Well
Looks like a fun day.
I’ve never heard of deep fried pickles. Since I’m not too crazy about pickles to start with, I don’t think I’d be too crazy about the deep fried pickles either.
I miss going to food festivals like these.
What a fun time. The pickles, one of my favorite things, look spectacular. That sounds like the perfect summer combo: fried goodies, cocktails, and beautiful weather. I can’t wait to try the cocktail either.
Blackberry Lavender Champagne Cocktail!! Wow!! Looks and sounds wonderful! I’ve been wanting to make lavender flavored something, but my lavender in the garden has no flowers at this point… The leaves smell great, and I’m so desperate and I’m thinking about using the leaves to get the fragrance out of it 🙂
Oooh… those potatoes look SO good. (Even if they were soggy.) Brings back great memories of the twisty potatoes my husband and I used to get at Texas street fairs. Man, they were the best. Lavender and deep-fried food is so totally “only in Texas.”
wow this is truly heavenly cocktail! 😉
WOW..sounds like a wonderful outing…love all the pics…they looks superb…have a nice weekend..tk care!
What a beautiful day to spend outside and also to finish with this drink.
Oooh!! I actually have Chambord, and this lovely cocktail is well worth buying a bottle of bubbly for!!
What a delicious looking cocktail!! I made some lavendar syrup last summer! I think this is reason to make some again soon!
Sounds like a great way to spend the day. How fun.
Staring at those deep-fried pickles makes me forget that I’m not too big on either deep-friedness or pickles, yum. I think I may have to find out how to make those to continue getting over my fear of deep-frying ;).
Those wine bottle trees look amazing, that festival looks like a place of wicked discoveries.
As for that blackberry cocktail, it looks delish! As does that syrup, thanks so much for sharing. I love how you have the little lavender petals scattered beside the glass in that last photo, beautiful =).
~Kurious Kitteh
I just picked my first blackberries of the season today—-now if I just had some of that lavender syrup I could enjoy one of those lovely cocktails! You have great photos!! 🙂
Great photos! I love Lavender!!! It’s my fav scent! Thanks for a lavender syrup recipe. I needed one! I agreed that Lavender Lizzie looks pretty awesome!
Ooh Bonnie, I want to make lavender syrup. That sounds like it could be used for so many different things-yum!
I love fried pickles too by the way-salty, fatty goodness that they are. I like to dip them in Ranch dressing. Now I want to make some too (smile).
Hope you guys have a good weekend also. It’s movie weekend here-Good Fellas is first on the list…
Wow… That looks like a lot of fun, and the lavender fields are stunning.
That cocktail looks amazing! So pretty and sounds delicious and refreshing.
I’ve had my thoughts wrapped up in Lilacs…and you’re into Lavendar…what a pleasant coincidance.
Thanks for sharing such a wonderful day.
Love the cocktail…very unique.
Flavourful wishes,
Claudia
The color of that Lavender Lizzie is amazing! Your cocktail looks so delicious with the fresh berries floating!
That lavender lizzie is gorgeous and what a fun event to wander through. Thanks for sharing this fun day.
I used to have rows of lavender on my front porch, which would have been great for this recipe. Someday, I’ll get my hands on fresh lavender again and tty this out.
well now isn’t that something…sounds like something I would go and do, get my heart set on something and miss it – glad you found a recipe, sounds really good…looks like you had a swell time anyway…
Great photos…especially the second to last photo. Fabulous!
Carmen
LOVE the syrup recipe. Thank you. I was about to beg you for a give-a-way for the second bottle until I read on and saw you didn’t get it. The photos are gorgeous! I love lavender and have quite a bit here…. I will be making the syrup – but it is an acquired taste. I’ll have to see how it turns out and goes over!
…and DEEP FRIED PICKLES – come on…. get crackin’ on that one. I want the recipe!
🙂
Valerie
What a fabulous cocktail! I’m still jealous I wasn’t at the festival–lavender is my FAVORITE thing! The photo are beautiful, as always!
Wow, that is pretty. Love all the colors going on there.
That cocktail has the most GORGEOUS color! I’m so enamored.
The festival looks like a ton of fun. Who knew you could do so much with lavender?
Looks like a fun day capped with a cool drink!
All of that fair food looked amazing (nice and greasy!). And the blackberry lavender cocktail…it sounds divine. Thanks for sharing!