Each week Tea Escapade will scour available resources – cookbooks, the Web, even my own kitchen to identify great tea recipes for your personal use, tea room, or tea party. This week’s selection, Green Tea and White Chocolate Ice Cream, comes from the book, “A Taste of Chocolate” published by Dawnya Sasse in 2007. Ingredients: [...]
My girlfriend Chara, owner and founder of WanderingLotus – a mobile yoga studio, came over in preparation for our upcoming yoga and tea event. As always, we began our meeting with the usual ritual… I put on a pot of tea and Chara procures a yummy sweet treat. I am a complete sucker for sweets – [...]
Last year, while attending the 2009 World Tea Expo, I had the pleasure of meeting Sondra Wells, Owner and Founder of Botanical Bakery. It was great to put a face with the name – several months earlier I sampled and reviewed several Botanical Bakery products. See Tea Escapade Blog Post: Botanical Bakery – Tea Cookies. At [...]
So I thought I’d heard it all. That is until, I learned about gourmet tea cookies sold by Botanical Bakery located in Napa Valley, California. Sondra Wells, “planter, baker, tea cookie maker” and now owner of Botanical Bakery, began creating her tasty treats 10 years ago when preparing for a dinner party. That first cookie, [...]
Occasionally I am asked by Jacoba of Just Food Now, to pair a good tea with one of her scrumptious desserts. Recently we collaborated on Habshi Halwa, a dessert native of India. The rich, syrupy sweetness of Habshi Halwa deserves a strong black tea sweetened moderately with sugar. My recommendation? Mountain Malt from the Gingia [...]
