Lavender? We Can Juice That!

I had a cleaning-out-our-fridges juicing party with a friend.  We wandered around the yard to see if there was anything else we could juice, and decided to throw some fresh lavender flowers in with our hodge podge of fruits.

"Lavender?!" My husband asked later. "You were just doing that to be pretentious."

"It's not like I'm showing my horse in an Olympic dressahhhhhhge event.  We just thought that lavender might be delicious.  And it was."

This made for a sweet, refreshing, summery juice. The lavender flavor was fairly subtle (we only added about 3 sprigs), so I would add more next time.

Summer Fruit Juice with Lavender Recipe

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~1/2 c. strawberries, tops removed

~1 c. cherries, pitted

~1 c. blueberries

~1 c. red seedless grapes, removed from stems

1 peach, pitted

~8 plums, pitted

2 red apples, quartered

1/2 lemon, peel removed

3-10 sprigs fresh lavender flowers (no need to remove from stems, just use the entire top of the flowering stalk)

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Put the lavender flowers in the juicer hopper, and push them through with a piece of apple.  Then run the remaining ingredients through the juicer.  

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Makes ~50 oz.