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…

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Christmas Tea at Tea with Thee

Dec. 13, 2014 We enjoyed a special five-course Christmas tea at Tea with Thee by Victoria in Madison, AL.  As you can see below, the tea service at our table was a festive Christmas pattern.  We started off with a raisin scone with lemon curd and devonshire cream paired with their Victoria’s Tea blend –…

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Three-tier Tea

My friend, Mary Ellen and I went and had a delightful three-tiered tea at Tea With Thee by Victoria in Madison, AL. We started off with a cup of their creamy chicken velvet soup.  We each had a scone and jam and then they brought out the three-tiered tray with 4 finger sandwiches for each…

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Mother’s Day 2014

We continued our afternoon tea tradition for Mother’s Day. Our theme this year was locally-made food! Up front on the left are the requisite crumpets served with toppings of lemon curd and locally-made Queen Bee Blueberry Lemon Jam. My sister made beautiful open-face cucumber sandwiches (front right, bottom tier) and olive nut sandwiches (front right, top tier).…

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The Jealous Crumpet

I found this post today called “Tea for You” on the Jealous Crumpet blog.  The pictures are beautiful with a nice review of the Tea with Thee tearoom in Madison, AL. If I understand correctly the blog is about cooking and British cuisine.   The author admits that this is an unusual point of view…

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Tea with Thee by Victoria

My friend, Julie and I just went and tried out a new local tea room.  It’s called Tea with Thee by Victoria at 181 Hughes Road, Madison AL 35758 next to Hartlex Antiques. There is a shop/dining room in the front with the main dining room in the back that’s big enough to hold large groups. They serve…

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