3 spring lovage Recipes

spring onions, trimmed and chopped, butter or olive oil, cos lettuce or 2 large butterhead lettuce, fresh garden peas or 250 g frozen peas, vegetable stock, leaves fresh lovage, leaves (plus 4 more to garnish ), salt and pepper, cream, for garnish (optional)

green and red leaf lettuce, spring mesclun mix (any variety of young greens will do: mustards, arugula, kale, amaranth, perilla, raddichio, etc)., fresh lovage leaves, fresh oregano leaves, fresh sage leaves, fresh thyme leaves, fresh marjoram leaves, young dandelion leaves, young fireweed and/or river beauty (epilobium species) shoots, snips yarrow, edible flowers , as available (nasturtiums, fireweed, begonia petals, borage flowers, violas, pansies, etc. please be certain that a particular species is edible before ingesting!), snipped chives, light olive oil (fresh flaxseed oil is a nice, nutty substitute), a dash lemon oil , if available (can be omitted), a few dashes good quality apple cider vinegar, lighter variety balsamic vinegar, water, a dash umeboshi plum vinegar, minced shallots, minced garlic, chopped chives, chopped lovage leaves, ground celery seed, dry mustard or 1/4 tsp of whole grain fresh mustard, red pepper, ground fenugreek, nigella seeds (can be skipped if unavailable), nutmeg, turmeric, a very tiny hint cinnamon