You know how a certain scent can remind you of a place or a person, like the smell of coffee and pipe smoke reminds me of my grandpa. One of my favorite scents and flavors is lemon. We use it all over the house, and I often will dab a little lemon oil on my wrists or on the diffuser by my desk. I recently had a delicious lemon scone from a local bakery and thought I’d try my hand at making some. It’s hard to get Trevyn to eat any baked goods that I make, not because I’m horrible at baking, but because he tries to avoid breads and sweets. It’s unfortunate because I enjoy baking a lot more than cooking. Ah well, more for me. 

You can find the recipe for these lemon scones here: http://www.theperfectpantry.com/2016/06/recipe-lemony-lemon-scones.html

Not in the recipe, I added some lavender which is delicious with lemon. This spring, I bought a lavender plant to grow in our kitchen window and it grew like crazy all summer. My hopes hadn’t been very high since I have a notoriously brown thumb so I was so proud of myself. Then inexplicably, even with regular watering, a couple weeks ago it just dried up, turned brown, and died. I’m pretty sure the brown thumb struck again. I would’ve loved to use the flowers from my plant but the lavender, I bought at a local spice shop, was a great addition to the bright, lemony flavor of these scones. I also loved the color contrast of the orchid blue of the lavender and the buttery yellow of the lemon. I played on this contrast in my styling by adding the indigo blue plate and striped ticking fabric for the photograph above. The scones satisfied my lemon craving and this weekend I’m going to try some with raspberries for some of Trevyn’s friends that’ll be visiting.