Sweet Saturday

With lovely plums ripe in our garden and lovely lush lavender what else to make than:

Lavender Roasted Plums with Lime Mascarpone

•  2-3 plums per person depending on size
• 1 stalk of lavender per person
• brown sugar
• amaretto
• mascarpone 225 gr
• 1 dessert spoon of icing sugar
• fine zest of 1-2 limes 

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Halve the plums and thread them onto a lavender stalk. Cover the end with foil else they'll burn. Put on a baking tray and sprinkle with brown sugar and amaretto. 

Place in the oven for 15-20 min, depending on the size of the plum, you want them to hold shape.

Mix the mascarpone with the zest and the icing sugar and cool.

Serve the plums warm with a dot of mascarpone on each halved plum.

Enjoy!!!

Loves Lavender

We have lavender in our garden, it smells just great. It's a large variety which is very fragrant, I love to sit on the bench which is surrounded by the lavender and just take in the lovely scent and listen to the buzzzzzing of the bumble bees. The lavender attracts so many insect to our garden, the moths surprise me, since I always think of them as creatures of the night. And the bumble bees make me smile, they are so happy.

From left to right I present you:

• the Bombus terrestris or 'aardhommel' in Ducth
• the  Bombus hypnorum or 'boomhommel'
• the 2 above together
• a moth or 'motje'
• a cabbage white butterfly or 'koolwitje'