Chay Tea Latte - Gloomy Afternoon

" She was always walking, 

Singing to her footsteps

Dirt ditched paths and pine cones

Digging up glass bottles

Rusty springs from feather beds

Old hubcaps on a picket fence

She planted beds of flowers

Stayed outside for hours "

A.D -The Ocean

{Chai tea Latte & Spiced honey Muffin}

TEA

1/4 Litre boiling water

2 tsp Black Tea

3 cardamom seeds

1 cinnamon stick

1 star anise

3 cloves

Put all ingredients in a tea bag and let infuse 

in warm water for 4 or 5 minutes (no more!)

Remove tea bag and add hot or cold milk 

as you like it!

MUFFINS

3/4 cup brown sugar

1 big egg

100 gr butter (melted and cooled)

1 1/2 cups flour

1 tsp ground all spice

1/2 tsp cinnamon

2 tsp baking powder

a pinch of salt

2 tblsp raw honey

1/3 cup milk

Add honey to warm milk, stir

until dissolved an set aside

Whisk together sugar and egg

until white and fluffy,

gradually add the butter

Put all dry ingredients together,

stirring slowly by hand add alternating flour mixture

and milk plus honey to the pastry

Fill muffin tin and bake at 180°C 

until golden brown and toothpick 

came out clean

Enjoy!

Ashes of Spring

G.o(d)p

- Vedi...è questo che ancora non sopporto!

- Cosa?!

- Quel suo modo di starti addosso.

1st of Sep.

- stranger •ness -

{ Rondò Veneziano }

Serendipity

Monsieur Le Jardin et ses nouvelles

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Mini Cheesecake

crust:

200 g  favourite cookies

70 g  melted butter

filling:

400 g  cream cheese softened (quark, ricotta or cheese)

400 g  fresh whipped heavy cream

4 tbsp powdered sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla bean seeds

or 1 tsp vanilla extract

21 g  gelatin 

4 tbsp hot water

method:

mince well the cookies in a fine texture

add melted butter and stir well

and gently push over the bottom 

of the cupcake pan 

cook in the oven at 200°C  until the edges

are golden brown

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whip the cream with 1 tbsp of sugar

and store in the fridge

whisk cheese, vanilla and the remaining sugar 

until smooth

soak the gelatin for at list 1 minute

then squeeze it well 

and put in hot water whisking well

until dissolved

add it to the cheese mixture

and stir

at the very end add the whipped cream

and mix until well incorporated

keep in the fridge about 4 hours 

before serving

Sour Cherry Compote: 2 cups of sour cherries (washed and pitted)

2 tbsp fresh lemon juice and 1 cup sugar, 

Let boil on high heat stirring continuously

for 5 to 8 minutes

and let cool

Enjoy!

FareWell - July

Blueberry Streusel Loaf | Elder Syrup Refresh

{ blueberry streusel  loaf }

3 medium eggs

3/4 cup sugar

1 tbsp lemon zest

4 oz butter 

1/2 cup yogurt

1 1/2 cups cake flour

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

a pinch of salt

1 cup fresh blueberries

regular butter tea cookies 

for topping

{ elder syrup }

1 kg  elder flowers (whole flower)

3 l  boiling water

1 kg  sugar

2 lemon zest

method:

Bring the water to boil, turn off the heat

and put all the flowers down to the water

and cover

Let stay in infusion for a night

Then strain the water with a clean cotton cloth

and bring again to a boil, add sugar and reduce heat

let boil for a couple of hours, stir occasionally

 until it cover the spoon

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Piled deep below the screening apple-branch 
They lie with bitter apples in their hands: 
And some are only ancient bones that blanch, 
And some had ships that last year's wind did launch, 
And some were yesterday the lords of lands.

In the soft dell, among the apple-trees, 
High up above the hidden pit she stands, 
And there for ever sings, who gave to these, 
That lie below, her magic hour of ease, 
And those her apples holden in their hands.

This in my dreams is shown me; and her hair 
Crosses my lips and draws my burning breath; 
Her song spreads golden wings upon the air, 
Life's eyes are gleaming from her forehead fair, 
And from her breasts the ravishing eyes of Death.

Men say to me that sleep hath many dreams, 
Yet I knew never but this dream alone: 
There, from a dried-up channel, once the stream's, 
The glen slopes up; even such in sleep it seems 
As to my waking sight the place well known.

My love I call her, and she loves me well: 
But I love her as in the maelstrom's cup 
The whirled stone loves the leaf inseparable 
That clings to it round all the circling swell, 
And that the same last eddy swallows up.

 - Dante G. Rossetti

May, it's already May

- Ho le formiche in testa...

- Si dice pigne!

- No no... guarda!
Ho proprio le formiche!!

Sunny Day - Sun in a Jar

Lemon Curd • Recipe Soon!