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Biscotti & Tea
I have never made biscotti before, but this fantastic recipe from The Monday Box blog for Cinnamon Red Hot Biscotti Cookies peaked my interest to give it a shot. I already had cinnamon imperials in my pantry from some Christmas cookie recipes, so this was perfect. The dough was quite wet and heavy and tricky
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British tea? Yes, please!
Last year, I discovered Quantily & Co on Instagram. They are based in the UK and offer themed boxes of goodies from England, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. I ordered up a Christmas themed box last year and a Scottish themed box. They are expensive, they take awhile to get here, but the goodies included are
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Autumnal Tea
With this lovely warm weather we have been experiencing here in Maine, I just had to enjoy another tea outside. But before all of that happened, I baked up some Snickerdoodle Bars, gathered some colorful leaves, and cut the few remaining roses from my shrub rose bushes. Loose Scottish Breakfast tea was the brew of
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Fall Flower and Tea
When your co-worker, who just happens to be the flower manager, gives you a beautiful teacup and some tea, well…one must have tea with some flowers! This is THE first year these Phlox have actually flowered in my garden. I have discover I really don’t care for their scent, but they are lush and pretty.
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Highland Tea
As has become my annual tradition after attending each Maine Highland Games, I buy some scones and tea at the games and enjoy them thoroughly the next day at home with my Tain Pottery with the Glenaldie thistle pattern. I showed GREAT restraint at the one vendor that always shows up with the mother lode
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Celtic Themed Tea
I am sure I’ve posted FAR too many “Celtic Themed” teas, but I canna help myself. After baking up some mint-chocolate cookies using my Celtic designed cookie press, I grabbed some Celtic Cottage tea from Trail Lodge Teas. Of course, I had to use my Tain Pottery Scottish teapot, teacup and saucer. Okay, so the
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Unexpected Gifts from Friends
Every once in awhile, a friend does something special that makes one smile. Yesterday’s mail provided one of those wonderful surprises. My great friend back in NY sent me some Russian Caravan tea and some Swedish shortbread cookies she picked up at a Scandinavian Festival she and her husband attended last weekend. They were accompanied
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4th of July Tea & Cookies
It was a beautiful, summer morning for this year’s 4th of July. Some tea and cookies on the deck were in order. I cut some rose blooms off one of my shrub roses. Enough to just make a wee bouquet. It’s a shame all of the flowers on one stem don’t bloom all at once.
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Tea Time on the Dock
I enjoyed a stunning, Sunday morning with some tea down on our lower dock. Some wonderful Celtic Cottage tea, some very crumbly blueberry coffee cake I made last night and some s single peony bloom from the garden. Reading the latest issue of Victoria Magazine always takes me to another time & place, then I
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Sunday, Funday Tea
On our last day at Disney World in 2005 as I was wondering in and out of shops on Main Street in the Magic Kingdom, I ran across a store that stole my heart. So, that is also where I plunked down a hefty amount of cash for items I did NOT need, but oh,
Tea Time With Heidi 