Category: tea
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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