Mother’s Day Tea 2015

    Once again, my sister and I pulled off another Mother’s Day Tea. It was our best tea yet due to practice and to Pinterest.  Both of us have been pinning tea recipes like crazy.  Click here if you’d like to see my Pinterest board called “The Happy Tea Drinker.”  You’ll see where some…

Read More

Blueberry Black Tea

I favor flavored teas.  To be specific, the berry flavors.  Here is one of my new favorites:  Blueberry tea.  Today we’re tasting the Savannah Tea Room’s “Blueberry Black” tea. The addition of blue cornflower petals is attractive although I don’t think it adds anything to the flavor.  It’s just pretty and that’s o.k. with me! The…

Read More

Mother’s Day Tea 2013

For the last few years we’ve had afternoon tea on Mother’s Day. Last year’s menu included: Savories:  Pimento cheese sandwiches, chicken salad in mini phyllo cups, cucumber sandwiches, olive and nut sandwiches. Crumpets with lemon curd and strawberry jam. Sweets:  Petit fours, Nutella and raspberry jam sandwiches (a refined version of peanut butter and jelly),…

Read More

Great Tea Rooms of America

I’ll recommend another book about tea to you – “The Great Tea Rooms of America” by Bruce Richardson It’s a nice compilation of what the author considers the best tea rooms in the U.S. and I think it makes a great checklist.  I’ve been to one of the tearooms already – see my previous entry…

Read More