Something to go with your tea? (And you can see that teapot here.)
Chef Mattia Agazzi from the Gucci Osteria in Beverly Hills makes holiday biscotti. (You can find the printed recipe at the YouTube page.)
Scented Snapshot ~ Buddha’s Hand Citron
I first saw a Buddha’s hand citron in a museum. The graceful, curly tipped fingers of the fruit had been carved during the Qing Dynasty in milk-colored jade. The carving’s complexity was astonishing and I was equally amazed to learn this was not a fantasy object but the representation of a real fruit.
Since seeing that jade art work, I’ve held, smelled, eaten and “drank” Buddha’s hand citron.
In Japan, China and Korea, the fruit’s “fingers” are thought to resemble the boneless, elegant hands of the Buddha…
Creamsicle cupcakes
Orange creamsicle cupcakes topped with lightly toasted meringue frosting. (Please send one my way.)
Creamsicle cocktail
From The Spruce, a recipe for an orange creamsicle cocktail. They use vanilla vodka, but they say you can also use gin.
The daily lemming
Yes, I was already hungry. Shortbread cookies from Makabi & Sons, in Oaxaca flavor (shown; "Shortbread butter cookies with rich cocoa, sweet cinnamon and a hint of cayenne"). Also available in Maroc ("with roasted pistachio, fragrant rosewater and aromatic cardamom"), Verdon ("with floral lavender") and Oxford ("with creamy vanilla and fragrant earl grey tea"), plus three other flavors, $7 for 6 cookies at the brand website. Beautyhabit has a few of the flavors too, at $9.