It's tea-time!
Tea itself is actually optional. I prefer coffee and a treat, as below. Or you could even have a meal.
It does take an extra minute, but setting my 'tea' out for myself as I would for company is such a civilized function I might actually be able to make it a tradition. Use a cute tea-towel and you'll top it off.
Scones are good warm with butter and jelly. Apricot is a favourite of mine, though I'm longing for blackberry, especially just at this time of year. Maybe baking up a batch of scones just to use up the copious amounts of fresh jelly in that one jar that didn't seal, perhaps. (I wish I were canning, too - maybe next year) I made these scones with 'strong brown' flour, which we'd call whole wheat at home, which does make them a wee bit more rustic than using white flour. Yes white would be more refined and soft.
Avoca. Scone. Inspired.
Do you know Avoca? Maybe so if you've been to Ireland or Belfast.
I've not been in the Ireland locations, but in Belfast as you walk in, on the left there are always giant scones dotted with delicious additions and flavour combinations. Honestly I've never eaten one, but my imagination got the best of me so I added tomato, green onion and blue cheese. Yummy.
In case you'd like to whip up a quick batch of scones, here are the details:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp - 1/4 cup granulated sugar, to taste depending on if it's a savoury treat, or sweet
4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup cold unsalted butter, cubed
1 egg
3/4 cup milk, or butter milk
Whisk together all dry ingredients, then cut in the butter and blend with a pastry blender. Beat the egg into the milk and add at once to the dry in a well. Mix with a fork until dough hangs together, then turn out onto a floured surface and cut as you please. Bake on a cookie sheet at 350 degrees F until golden on the edges. If you desire any additional ingredients you could add them to the flour mixture to avoid their clumping together or last minute, just prior to turning out the dough.
Do you listen to a certain playlists while doing certain activities?
I need music when I jog.
I like music when I'm in the kitchen, (particularly if the kitchen is big enough to dance in) and recently I've been streaming the radio at home. (Country 105 mostly)
I often change up my phone playlist when I'm at home but I'm getting creative and listening to some different and random playlists/albums/artists that happen to be burried in the current incomplete collection. I am looking forward to updating my chosen playlists when I get home but also enjoying music I've not heard in a while as well.
Favourites of the moment are Van Morrison (of course as this is his haunt), Buddy Holly and Paul Brant/James Otto/Josh Turner...
What are you listening to that gets your body in motion?
It's rainy today, but Autumn is coming along nicely here!!!
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So it's not a scone, but it is delicious. Here is a Knödel made with creamcheese dough as Topfen is obviously hard to come by outside Austria. It was mostly an experiment to see how it might turn out.
"Lekker!" as one might say delicious, in German. It turned out rather well, if I do say so myself! :)
