Saturday, September 5, 2009

Tea for One.



Ah, weekend! There's nothing better than a restful and relaxing weekend after a long and hard work week. I did a bit of shopping this morning and afterwards came home to make another marble loaf cake. While that was in the oven I watched an episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot and then later made a tray of "tea for one" to take to my room. I enjoyed this light supper while watching 'Desperate Romantics', a mini-series about the Pre-Raphaelite painters. On the tray: hot ceylon tea with soymilk and sugar, an "everything" bagel with Tofutti non dairy cream cheese, marble loaf cake and fresh nectarine slices.
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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 5, 2009 at 7:36 PM

    Lovely tea! About the marble cake-do you use half or the full vanilla cake recipe? I want to try it from the link you posted but it requires 3 and a half cups of flour and I don't bake for many! Thanks.
    This is by far my favorite food blog!

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  2. kmouseSeptember 5, 2009 at 9:08 PM

    Hiya,
    Don't worry, just cut the recipe in half. That's what I did today. I made a small loaf instead of a large one. Worked great. And just split the vanilla batter in half, and add cocoa powder to half of it and then pour the vanilla batter in the tin first, then pour in the chocolate in random parts over the vanilla, then take a knife and swirl it through to create the marble effect!

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 5, 2009 at 10:35 PM

    Ah..Desperate Romantics...what cable station? BBC? I would have liked to have seen it. Your tea service is charming...love you 'in bed' meals, they give me lots of cool ideas :-)

    mppaul2

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  4. noraSeptember 6, 2009 at 11:29 AM

    Your breakfasts are always so cute and cozy!

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  5. DawnSeptember 7, 2009 at 5:25 AM

    I just had a light breakfast with tea. I wish I had thought to take it back to bed. That sounds so relaxing. Your meal is lovely as always

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  6. Mama VegSeptember 7, 2009 at 7:43 AM

    A beautiful presentation for a lovely breakfast!

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  7. vegan.in.brightonSeptember 7, 2009 at 3:16 PM

    Gorgeous! I'd love an everything bagel & marble cake for breakfast.

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  8. Eco MamaSeptember 7, 2009 at 4:21 PM

    What a great post, very inspired!
    xo
    Eco Mama

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  9. EricSeptember 8, 2009 at 12:53 PM

    I've been meaning to check out Desperate Romantics. I'm crazy about anything medieval or pre-raphaelite and my friends have been urging me to check it out.

    That marble loaf cake looks tasty, and of course the everything bagel....I have one of those with Tofutti cream cheese every morning ;)

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