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
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
Strawberry chocolate iced tea isn’t your every day iced tea but this rooibos tea from Republic of Tea makes a delightfully refreshing glass of cold tea on a hot day – team it up with my chocolate strawberry mint simple syrup and it’s a game changer! Do you ever make jam water? You know, how when you empty a jar of homemade jam, but
It’s been a while since I’ve done a Friday Tea and Chocolate post. In fact there hasn’t been much posting around here at all! But the winter has come to an end and some of my biggest projects for the year have wrapped up and I’m actually starting to feel like picking up my camera again. The best part is the weather! It’s finally spring
Last Friday I had the treat of attending the Moon Festival Tea Service at The Urban Tea Merchant here in Vancouver. Food Husband Sean had been asked to write about the service for another publication and he was allowed to bring a guest so who better than his tea junkie Food Wife, right? The Urban Tea Merchant is a place we’ve passed by many, many
I’m a tea kinda gal as you all know, and as comforting as a cup of tea is at any time of the day, this time of year there are days when it’s just too darn hot to even think about boiling a kettle. And that’s when it’s time to think about iced tea. I love the iced passion tea lemonade that Starbucks makes but,
A few Saturdays ago, the power went out. I had just made a big cup of very hot tea and had planned on sitting down to work for most of the day. Our power rarely goes out and when it does, it’s usually for just a minute or two. I cursed under my breath for having left unsaved Photoshop and Illustrator files on my computer
I’m not a big one for food media events. I find them loud and crowded, everyone angling for a handful of samples from the latest menu or shoving a camera in your way so they can get a badly lit blurry photo. I’m shy and not very pushy and I get frustrated with crowds or people who are just being rude by not being considerate
I’m a tea junkie. I grew up with a British mum but I never really “got” the whole tea thing. Not until I lived in London in my very early 20’s. And then it was pretty much drink tea or be weird. Normally, I have no problem being weird. I’ve kind of resigned myself to the fact that I am weird. But when your sweet
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