food, photography and my creative life
I don’t drink coffee. I love the smell of it. I love how I think it should taste (but doesn’t really). I love coffee cake (not coffee cake like a cake you eat with coffee – although I like that too – but cake that’s coffee flavoured). I love Coffee Crisps. But I don’t actually like anything that’s real coffee – not even fancy pants drinks like
Earlier in the year, I was experimenting with Chai mixed with cocoa and was pretty pleased with the results. It seems I’m not the only person thinking about tea and chocolate together in the same cup… You know how sometimes, you’re standing in line at the grocery store check out, just minding your own business? Maybe, possibly, you’re pretending not to notice the tabloid headlines
This week’s Friday Tea and Chocolate is all about the chocolate with PB&J Cookies made with Reese Chocolate Peanut Butter Spread. This post is sponsored by Hershey’s Canada. I’ll admit it… I’ve been avoiding baking cookies lately for one reason and one reason only… I tend to eat them all after baking them. Which would be fine, I suppose, except that I can’t really afford a
I haven’t done a Friday Tea and Chocolate post in quite a while – ok, let’s be honest: I haven’t posted much of anything in a while. But that’s ok. Sometimes you need a break from things in the summer. Plus, it has really been so hot that I haven’t done much tea drinking at all. When it’s really hot, like it has been all
A couple of months ago I was introduced to Tea Leaf Co (TLC… cute, no?) while chatting with a few people on Twitter. When the company overheard the conversation, they offered to send me a sample of a few of their teas to try and well.. who can say no to tea? Not me! I was only expecting two or three samples but they
Today is a true Friday tea and chocolate. We have tea and we have chocolate and I’ve put them together in a Chocolate Chai – two of my favourite things. But first… A few weeks ago I discovered there was such a thing as a “Dirty Chai”. Did you know this existed? I didn’t. And this made me feel very old and not hip because
I can’t get through my day without at least three cups of tea. Sometimes more. That’s a lot of tea. My first morning cuppa has to be English Breakfast tea. That’s non-negotiable. Mornings and I don’t get along, Period. So I need my shot of caffeine but I also need routine to ease me into the whole daylight/morning/work thing (shudder). The rest of the day
There is a lovely little chocolate shop in Vancouver that I always forget is there, except when I’m nowhere near it. It’s called Xoxolat and lives in Yaletown on Homer Street. Every time I go in, I spend way too much money and come home with far too much chocolate. It’s probably just as well that I don’t go in very often! On my last
What is better than a box of chocolates?? A box of chocolates delivered to your door! Last week I received a box of chocolate caramels from Wild Sweets that I couldn’t wait to open up. You may remember that I wrote about Wild Sweets on a previous Friday Tea and Chocolate when I reviewed the Wild Sweets Cinnamon Caramel Hazelnuts & Smoked Salt Bar, which I
Green tea matcha powder is like the super hero of teas. Add it to a breakfast smoothie to get a jump on your day! I drink green tea by the vat. No joke. Obviously, it’s the drink of choice when you sit down for a sushi lunch, sushi snack, sushi dinner… and if you live on Canada’s west coast you eat a lot of sushi.
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