Tea time

Every summer I host a tea party in my back yard. It has not rained or even been cloudy once in five years. Mango, ginger peach, and Irish breakfast tea, lavender cookies, lime bars, cucumber, chicken curry, and jam cream cheese sandwiches, thumbprint cookies, Earl Grey tea scones, honeydew melon, and strawberries.

Photos and baking and making, oh my!

I'm apparently on a photography/baking/crafts kick. I did say this was going to be my spring break of making things. So here are photographs of the baking. None of the crafts, yet, just of crafty tools.Those are cheddar muffins, made from this recipe (only I added garlic powder, because I put garlic in everything). The stuff on top is just leftover chicken, spinach, and garlic (told you) in a frying pan with olive oil. I made ginger cookies, a couple of days ago as well, but they don't photograph prettily.

Literature you can eat

So I was at the dentist on Wednesday, and I had to wait quite some time, and having foolishly not brought a book, I picked up a magazine. Seattle Magazine, to be exact. It was their food edition, and flipping through it I found an article on the Seattle Edible Book Festival. This is part of the International Edible Book Festival, which happens every year in the vicinity of April 1st in all sorts of different countries. People create food with a relation to books, generally punny plays on the title of a particular book.

I missed this year's festival, of course, but admission is free with an entry ($10 otherwise), so maybe I'll come up with something for next year.

You can view a bunch of photos of Seattle's edible books from past years here.