Evening meal oops!

Posted on March 11, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Baked beans, egg custard, Food, fried egg, Mistake, oven chips, salt and vinegar, TeaLeave a comment

I started cooking some oven chips and baked beans for tea. I didn’t want to cook anything complicated as I’m still ill. I reached in the fridge to get the pies my hubby had bought to go with it….. Oops! What I found were sweet egg custard tarts. Not a combination that would be very palatable!

So I cooked a couple of eggs to go with the other food. They were tasty and did the trick.

Next time I will check what is in the paper bag before deciding what to cook. The custard tarts made a nice dessert, probably too much egg for one meal, but filling.

Cool drink

Posted on February 3, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged blackcurrant cordial, Coffee, Cold drink, Cool, Decaff, Drink, Hot, low sugar, orange cordial, TeaLeave a comment

I am fed up of decaff coffee, I want a cold drink. Maybe some ginger beer or diet tonic water. I have ice so I can cool it down. But its still winter so I might have a blackcurrant or orange cordial with hot water. Or orange juice with water to dilute it. That’s very soothing, and I choose the ones with low sugar. I might even share a bottle of beer with my hubby. I don’t know, but something less boring than decaff? Maybe a cup of tea.

Tea

Posted on January 20, 2023 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Drink, Fine Art, Painting, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Tea, tea pot, tea time2 Comments

Tea for who?

Tea for you

With scones and jam

Or sandwich of ham?

Straight from the pot

It’s nice and hot

A fresh dark brew

Don’t let it stew!

Blue and white china

Nothing can be finer

From Stoke-on-Trent

To a friend, sent

A birthday gift

For them to lift

And then to pour

With milk and more.

Down the Rabbit hole

Posted on January 5, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged afternoon tea, Cake, Cup and saucer, Food, Life, rabbit hole tea room, sandwiches, Scones, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, TeaLeave a comment

My friend reminded me today that two years ago we were having afternoon tea at the Rabbit hole tea room in Stoke. We had a lovely meal of sandwiches, scones and cakes and tea in porcelain tea cups and saucers. We had to book a table in advance. Obviously it was closed during lock-down but I believe it is open again now. It was a charming place and suitable for families having birthday parties. I hope it does well despite the cost of living crisis.

Mince pie and tea

Posted on December 31, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged brew, Cup of tea, festive, might celebrate, Mince pie, New years eve, Quiet day, TeaLeave a comment

How kind! Hubby just brought me a cup of tea and a mince pie. I’m upstairs keeping warm because this bug has still got me. I need to get up and go and do some shopping, but I was just reading the end of a book and then suddenly there’s a plate with a pie and a brew of tea on it appearing through the door!

Anyway, I’d better drink the tea before it goes cold. Then get my act together. The shops might be closing early today. If I feel a bit better we might celebrate the new year tonight, I just hope there aren’t lots of fireworks!

Crumpets for tea

Posted on December 9, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged bready, Butter, crumpet, Food, Honey, Hot, hot buttered, Jam, Jelly, malted, margarine, Tasty, Tea, Treat2 Comments

Hot buttered crumpets for tea! The little holes in the top of them allow the butter or margarine to trickle down into tiny tubes inside the crumpet. You heat them under a grill or in a toaster on both sides to heat them up. The base of them is solid so when you add your topping it doesn’t leak out. I only used to have butter, but recently I’ve added grated cheese and microwaved them for a few seconds so it drizzled inside them, also try honey or jam (America calls it jelly). Note these are NOT muffins, that’s a whole different bready food.

Crumpets

Posted on August 5, 2022August 5, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Afternoon, Butter, Cheese, crumpet, Food, Honey, margarine, Tasty, Tea, Toast, toastedLeave a comment

‘and shall we have crumpets for tea ?’

I don’t remember where that quote comes from. But that’s what we had for our meal this afternoon. Toasted to a slightly brown colour and hot so that the crumpet is cooked through. I usually have butter or margarine on it but today I had butter and then as a treat a small amount of Greek honey.

The porous, sponge like consistency of the crumpet makes it good for absorbing melted butter. The top of a crumpet is full of a lattice of holes, whereas the base is solid, so these lacunae stay filled and only leak slightly. Yummy! I’ve also toasted crumpets, then grated cheese on them and then I gently microwave them for a savoury snack.

This bought back a memory of using a fork pierced through a crumpet and pushed onto the front bars of a gas fire. A tricky thing to do as the fire might burn your fingers as well as the crumpet! Cook the back first then the front, then take it off the fire and butter and eat. (Childhood memories of when life was more basic).

Too hot

Posted on June 22, 2022June 22, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bird, Blackbird, Cherries, Cream, Food, high tea, Hot, Humid, Poem, Poetry, Tea, TiredLeave a comment

Hot and humid

I have to sit in the shade

UV’s too high

Pollen count too

Had cherries and cream

For high tea today

Now I need a cuppa tea

To make me feel cool.

Blackbird is singing

In the garden today

Water to drink

In an old shallow tray.

Dunked biscuits taste better

Posted on February 26, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged aroma, beverage, biscuit, Cocoa, Coffee, Drink, dunking, Food, Hot drink, Life, Taste, TeaLeave a comment

It has been proven that biscuits taste more biscuity when they are dunked in your favourite hot beverage, tea, coffee, cocoa, (maybe not bovril or that kind of drink!) apparently it releases more biscuit aromas. I think it makes them easier to eat too!

Some biscuits like ginger nuts don’t soften as much as ones like rich tea biscuits. The worst thing that can happen is that the biscuit/ cookie falls apart and bits fall into your drink. You can either fish the bits out with a spoon or wait till you have finished drinking and then scoop it out. Have a go if you haven’t dunked before… Enjoy!

I’m bored

Posted on January 31, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Books, Bored, Boring, Closed, Drawing, Ill, Memory, Mind, remember, shut, Sundays, Tea, Years ago2 Comments

Fed up with being ill. Not Covid, but a cold/ chest infection. But I’m getting bored. I feel trapped but that might be a good thing. Perhaps I’m getting better?

Sundays used to be boring when I was a child. Nowhere was open, shops shut, nothing really to visit. If you ran out of milk you could not buy any. Memory of a different world. Time changes things. Then I was waiting for fruit salad with evaporated milk with bread and butter for tea. Watching my mom and dad doing the washing in a boiler in the kitchen that had a mangle on the top and an old spin dryer to get most of the water out. While they did that we played in the garden. Unless the weather was bad. Then I would read a book, or draw. Maybe it wasn’t all that boring?

Mallaband-Brown

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