lavender cookies

Photographs of Beautiful Lavender Farms, + Pretty Lavender Cookies

September 23, 2015 By Nancy Baggett Leave a Comment

This summer I spent a glorious five days in Washington State visiting and taking photographs at lavender farms. (And learning more about my favorite herb, of ...

Lavender Cookie Icing: + How To Use Culinary Lavender Buds

January 28, 2015 By Nancy Baggett 9 Comments

I just returned from a U.S. Lavender Growers conference. My head is still spinning from all I learned about lavender and the many friendly people I met. In our ...

Welcome to KitchenLane! It’s a comfortable place where I create, thoroughly test, and photograph recipes for my cookbooks and blog. All my recipes are original, not adaptations from others. I trained as a pastry chef, so many offerings are desserts and baked goods. Some are also healthful, savory dishes I contribute to healthy eating publications. My recipes are always free of artificial dyes, flavorings, and other iffy additives, which I won’t serve my family—or you! Instead, dishes feature naturally flavorful, colorful ingredients including fresh herbs, berries, edible flowers, and fruits, many from my own suburban garden or local farmers’ markets. Since lots of readers aspire to write cookbooks, I also blog on recipe writing and editing and other helpful publishing how-to info accumulated while authoring nearly 20 well-received cookbooks over many years.