Category Archives: dessert

Lots of lava! (Without the guilt!)

I don’t eat dessert too often, but when I do I really love it! After careful consideration I narrowed down my favourite dessert to two. Chocolate Lava Cake and Créme Brûlèe. (I hope I never have to choose between them because I will be torn forever!)   However,  we all know that when you’re [...]

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Empanada by any other name…

I’ve always loved empanadas as a mid-afternoon snack, as I got older, it was a delicious accompaniment to the afternoon coffee or tea. Of course, I’ve only ever had them in El Salvador and had no idea that many, many other countries had their own “empanadas”. The ones that I have been lucky enough to [...]

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Best EVER Chocolate Cake

It seems like with me joining Steeped Tea I have gotten off track with interntional recipes.  I definitely will continue cooking around the world but lately I have gotten requests from my customers to provide some recipes for either baking with tea or treats for a tea party.  In my search to find a chocolate cake [...]

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My Tea Escape

It’s no secret, I love tea! I would be a bonafide TEA NUT if my place (an my funds) weren’t so small.  But whenever I get a chance to I like to look up new tea reviews and articles and try new, or old favourite, types of teas.  Most of my loose tea comes from [...]

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Some Favourite Cookies

I thought I would take a short hiatus in following my international recipe dictionary and instead of going on to Nepal, next on my list of recipes to try, I want to add an entry about cookies. After all, this is the one season of the whole year when the most amount of cookies are [...]

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