Tag: drink

Recipes, Seasonal

Honey-Ginger Tea (for when you’ve got a cold or just feel under the weather)

Oh, October, how beautiful you are, bringing the harvest, my lovely favorite quinces, beautiful colored trees, and the sniffles to my boyfriend’s nose… oh wait, that part is not so nice.  At all. It’s also totally true that if you treat a cold, it goes away in a week, and if you don’t, it takes seven days.  However, no one ever said that said week … Continue reading Honey-Ginger Tea (for when you’ve got a cold or just feel under the weather)

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Recipes, Seasonal

Hot Cocoa For Grownups

Autumn.  Shorter daylight hours.  Hot chocolate. Need I say more? Ok, in this age of hot cocoa coming from an instan-drink box and having, thus, lost its appeal to those above age twelve, perhaps I do. I love hot cocoa and hot chocolate (the two drinks are not the same, though they can be drunk rather interchangeably – it’s the composition that differs***), but I … Continue reading Hot Cocoa For Grownups

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Recipes, Seasonal

Capturing The Scent Of Summer

It’s 8am and my hands smell of elderflower and lemon. Why?  Because it’s Midsummer, and it is both, traditional and opportune to go hunting for the short-blooming elderflowers, and capture the scent of summer. For the uninitiated, Midsummer is a major Swedish holiday celebrated the weekend after Summer Solstice (June 22nd).  It involves a lot of drinking, normally at summer houses or parks or anywhere, … Continue reading Capturing The Scent Of Summer

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