Today we had our friends Dinam, Katia and Anaua over for “tea”. I do like this idea of stopping in the middle of the afternoon and making yourself a cuppa and snack. It's the English version of a siesta and both of these practices should be something we Americans adopted, but sadly never have. My friend Gretchen in California has tea for her English husband and ½ English child...but she'd have tea even without those excuses I imagine. And what I didn't realise until living here is “tea” often doesn't even include tea. Here they say, “what'll we have for tea?” as in what is our 3-4 pm snack going to comprise?
For our tea this afternoon we put out some crackers and cheese including the incredibly rich “black bomb” cheddar we got last week at the farmers market. It did not disappoint. In addition, I made a batch of crepe batter and made one each for Dinam, Katia and myself (Carrie was juice cleansing). I tried a new combination of dark chocolate, ripe cherries, pistachios and clotted cream with a slight drizzle of honey on top. They also did not disappoint. Tomorrow I'll make Carrie and I a few savory ones to use up some of our veggies.
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