Category: tea

• guava poppy seed quick bread with cream cheese icing

  

  This is a quick, tall, not too dense quick bread that is moist and has good flavors! What more could you ask for? Have you ever wondered whether you can substitute cream cheese for the butter in a cake or quick bread? It turns out you can, but you may want to add a little […]

  Dave G

  December 27, 2020

  baked goods, baking, food blogging, Guava, island food, quick bread, quickbread, snack, tea, tea loaf, teacake

  Guava, guava bread, guava juice concentrate, guava quick bread, tea cake

• orange rosehip teacake

  

  Good morning! Ever since we started working from home back in March, on my days off, I’ve been spending more time walking along what is called the Interurban trail, which is a 14-mile paved, bike and pedestrian trail with plenty of greenery as well as ample opportunities for foraging fruit! A few days ago, I […]

  Dave G

  August 8, 2020

  baked goods, baking, cakes, dessert, food blogging, snacck cake, snack, tea, teacake

  foraging, orange rosehip tea loaf, rose hip cake, rosehip cake, rosehips, rugosa rose, tea cake, tea loaf, teacake, wild roses

• thai iced tea bundt cake

  

  Can you believe that it is the end of 2019 with 2020 happening in just a few short days? It’s been a good year, but I’m looking forward to the new year!! How ’bout you? Almost every time that we go out for Thai food, we’ll order some Thai iced teas. Although we’ll drink it […]

  Dave G

  December 28, 2019

  baked goods, baking, bundt cake, cakes, food blogging, tea

  hot milk cake, hot milk tea cake, Thai iced tea bundt cake, Thai iced tea cake

• matcha blackberry friands, vegan

  

  A friand is a small almond cake, similar to French financiers. In fact,  friand literally means “a tasty thing” in French. They are popular in Australia and New Zealand. The main ingredients for both friand and financier are almond flour, brown butter, icing sugar, and egg whites, but a friand often has additional ingredients and flavors […]

  Dave G

  October 1, 2017

  almond flour, almond meal, almonds, baked goods, baking, berries, cakes, cupcakes, dairy-free, dessert, egg-free, food blogging, matcha, muffins, nut flour, tea, teacake, Uncategorized, vegan, vegetarian

  financiers, friands, matcha blackberry friands, matcha friands, tea time, teacakes

• Matcha Adzuki Loaf

  

  A simple quick bread to cheer one up. And Lordy, Lordy, we all need cheering up, don’t we? Hang in there! I will not go into details about what this means, because you kinda know about what I’m referring, right? Or maybe not! Haha! Just crack open a newspaper and you’ll know. I wanted to […]

  Dave G

  March 25, 2017

  adzuki. red beans, baked goods, baking, cakes, green tea, matcha, quick bread, snack, tea

  adzuki, adzuki bean, green tea, matcha, matcha adzuki loaf, matcha red bean quick bread loaf, red bean

• jordan almond matcha cookies

  

  March. It’s finally here! The days are noticeably longer and the shrubbery outside our apartment is full of small unopened flower buds. Right now, it’s about 40 degrees and clear skies and sunny! I generally like winter and don’t mind when Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, but for some reason, this year I can’t wait for […]

  Dave G

  March 4, 2017

  almonds, baked goods, baking, cookies, food blogging, green tea, snack, tea

  almond matcha cookies, green tea cookies, jordan almond matcha cookies, jordan almonds, matcha, matcha cookies

• bay leaf pound cake

  

  Let me tell you how I ended up making this. I was listening to Talking Heads on Pandora. Which made me think of David Byrne, the lead singer. Which made me think of Annie Leibovitz, the photographer, because she did a photo spread for the magazine Vanity Fair on David Byrne. In the spread, he’s […]

  Dave G

  August 13, 2016

  baked goods, baking, bay leaves, cakes, coffee cake, dessert, food blogging, pound cake, quick bread, snack, tea, teacake

  bay laurel leaves, bay leaf pound cake, bay leaves, pound cake, tea cake

• green tea cake with berry sauce

  

  Today is Mother’s Day, After a fairly long streak of sunny days, the weather has taken a turn back to the more usual cloudy and gray day in Seattle. Which meant going back to the kitchen. Back to baking! The last few weeks have been challenging, to say the least, but I feel like I’m […]

  Dave G

  May 8, 2016

  baking, cakes, food blogging, tea

  berry sauce, blackberries, blueberries, green tea, green tea cake, green tea powder, layer cake, matcha, matcha cake, naked cakes, white chocolate cream cheese buttercream frosting

• matcha cookies and cream cookies

  

  Ever since a few years back when I tried the cookies and cream version of polvoron in the PI, I’ve been wanting to add crumbled up cookies and cream as an added ingredient in different recipes. Especially when I feel the combination would go well, either by color and/or taste. This is not polvoron but it […]

  Dave G

  November 11, 2014

  baked goods, baking, cookies, snack, tea, teacake

  cookies, cookies and cream, green tea, green tea cookies, matcha, matcha cookies, matcha cookies and cream cookies, matcha green tea, oreo cookies