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Flower Petal & Green Tea Compound Butter

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Flower Petal & Green Tea Compound Butter is simple to make and as you already know, everything tastes better with butter.  Although I’ve made flavored butters before, I loved this pretty colorful layered version. Butter is sliced lengthways and each slice dusted with freshly ground green tea leaves and a scattering of fresh and dried edible flower petals. The layers are gently pressed together and using the foil butter wrapper, gently but firmly wrapped the butter, keeping its shape.

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Refreshing Cucumber Mint Mocktail Recipe

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And just like that…the new year has begun. Weeks of planning and prepping for the festivities are over. Christmas decorations have been packed away and again, made another promise to fix Mr. Snowman’s eyes. Visitors and family have gone and now, everything seems rather empty.

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A Yixing Clay Teapot & Tea Marbled Eggs

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Cultural traditions brings us together. As someone from an Irish background now living in the Gulf, I find we share the common love of drinking tea…just like the Chinese. And when Umi Tea Sets contacted me asking if I would like to receive one of their traditional Yixing clay teapots and tea to enjoy, I happily accepted. Apparently the blog post on Irish Tea Bread prompted the contact. 

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