Afternoon tea, with lemon-rosemary cookies. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
My friend Sarah at Art Expedition sent me her recipe for Lemon-Rosemary cookies, and while my first couple of batches do rather lack finesse, Sarah’s recipe is really good and the cookies taste fantastic.
Afternoon tea with Lemon-Rosemary cookies. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Vintage tea cup and saucer. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Afternoon tea with Lemon-Rosemary cookies. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Afternoon tea with Lemon-Rosemary cookies. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Afternoon tea with Lemon-Rosemary cookies. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Five Minutes of Random (the #RegularRandom challenge) is hosted by Desley Jane at Musings of a Frequently Flying Scientist.
If you’d like to join in:
- choose a subject or a scene
- spend five minutes photographing it – no more!
- try to see it from many angles, look through something at it, change the light that’s hitting it
- tag your post #regularrandom and ping back to Desley’s post
- have fun!
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They certainly don’t look bad, Su, and as I’ve said on various occasions, they’re going to look worse where they’re going. So long as they taste good, who cares?
janet
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Absolutely true Janet. I probably take the “we eat first with our eyes” thing a bit too seriously. But I have found that making food attractive helps with mindful eating (and that helps my waistline!). 🙂
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I agree. Presentation is food for the eyes and heart just as the food itself is for the body.
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What an elegant looking tea set, and the flower sets the scene perfectly. Lemon and rosemary, uh. Sounds tempting…
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They are good! Not overly sweet and very crisp.
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Once life is back to normal here I shall have a go at the recipes you sent me!
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🙂 I hope your son is ok and recovering well.
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he’s doing very well Su and hoping to return home in a week or so. I shall miss him.
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I’m so glad to hear he’s getting better. I can understand how it will be bittersweet when he goes home.
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They look very attractive and remind me that I still haven’t tried your rosemary and feta scones.
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So many recipes, so little time. I still have some scone variations I want to try. 🙂
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That looks so inviting, Su, tea and cookies.
Leslie
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🙂 very civilised.
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ready for a tea party Su.
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That vintage china is gorgeous!
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Thanks. I found it in a junk shop a couple of years ago.
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rock on with the cool teaware – and the collage was so nice – I like the (love the ) top left image in the collage – with the flower looking at us… and the softness – im in the mood for tea (and going over to art expedition now)
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Oh, lemon and rosemary are two of my favorite things – I have to go get that recipe!
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Oh, wow! Thanks so much for the shoutout, Su! 😀 And your cookies look so much better than mine – I seem to be allergic to cookie cutters and try to form something out of the dough, the first ones are always nice to look at but then I lose patience and the rest is… well, let´s just say they always taste better than they look 😉 Love your pictures, the china looks lovely as does the tea with lemon in it – I might just hop over virtually and tuck in! 😉 xxxxxxx
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Sarah, I’m so sorry it’s taken me a while to reply.
I’m not great with the cookie cutters either. Luckily the dough was very obliging while I rolled and re-rolled it. Actually I think rolling pins are my real enemy. How do people manage to get dough a uniform thickness?
Enjoy the virtual “tuck-in.” ONE DAY … we’ll do the real thing. 🙂 xxxx
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Don´t worry about that, I always understand, Su! 🙂
Ugh, don´t mention rolling pins! I think those things hate me! 😀 Even thickness? That´s got to be invented by Hollywood for sure! 😀 LOL!
Can´t wait for the real thing! 😉 Have a lovely weekend! xxxxxx
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I hope you’re having a great weekend too. We will manage a real-world meeting sometime!!! xxxxxx
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😀 xxxxxxx
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I love the styling of your photos. Your tea setting is adorable, as is the table cloth; so pretty!
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Thank you. I enjoy the staging of the shots as much as eating the food these days. For which my waistline is grateful 🙂
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Hee hee! You’re feeding the artistic side of you!
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So pretty Su. Love the tea set. Lemon and Rosemary is such a lovely combination, not sure I’ve had it in a sweet biscuit. Sounds really good!!
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Thanks Desley. I hadn’t either, but it works really well. And of course, as soon as you see something once, it pops up everywhere. In a novel I’ve just finished one of the characters makes glazed sweet rolls with lemon and rosemary filling. It sounded so yum!
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Isn’t it always the way?!
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awesome blog
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What a pretty tea set! It reminds me of a dish my Aunt has. I can’t quite picture hers in my mind, but I know she has something that is similar…
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I’m not normally into “pretty” things — and certainly not delicate china. But I just loved this when I first saw it.
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I kept trying to remember why it seemed familiar, until it finally hit me. The design is very similar to the design of a roll of wrapping paper that my great grandma had. My mom has been using it for my entire life and it’s still going strong. So, not a dish at all. 😉
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That is so brilliant. 🙂 🙂
Is it a huge roll? Or is your mum really good at saving used wrapping paper for re-use? I have been known to spend ages carefully peeling the tape of gifts so I can save the paper when it is particularly nice.
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It was a gigantic roll! Like, super gigantic. It’s down to the last few feet though. I told my mom that I would really love a framed scrap of it. It’s such a huge part of my childhood. Every Christmas, that paper was under the tree on some gifts. My mom is not paper saver by my Grandma definitely was and so was my husband’s Grandma. So when we opened our wedding gifts, we had to be oh-so-careful and then we would pass them the paper and they would work out who got to keep it. They were in heaven! 🙂
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I love every bit of that. The idea of a huge roll of wrapping paper that appears Christmas after Christmas is just so special. And the notion of the grandmas jostling for the best pickings of the wedding paper … well I’m going to enjoy that lovely image. My grandma wasn’t a keeper of things, but I have friends whose grandparents were. It makes so much sense when you know that the grew up in times when people were primarily producers, not consumers.
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🙂
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The tea looks good! The teacup and saucer looks cute! 😄
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🙂 Thanks
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