Bernideen's Tea Time, Cottage and Garden

Thursday, January 17, 2019

AN ORANGE-BUTTERMILK TART from Victoria's 2018 September Issue

I have been saving a copy of a recipe since

last fall to make the Orange-Buttermilk Tart

I saw in the September issue of Victoria.

This dessert called for a 10" tart pan with

removeable bottom and sure enough, I

had one. I love trying some of the
recipes I see in Victoria. Sometimes it takes
me a while to get to each recipe I copy
and lay aside but eventally.....

Isn't Johnson Brothers "Friendly Village"

ever so friendly. It is more perfect than ever

this winter with our snowy season.

The snow we had last weekend put a bit

of a damper on my daily outdoor walk.

I finally realized everyone had shoveled

their walks on my side of the street so

today I got out and just walked up and

down the long street 5 times. Since it is

a rather steep hill I figured that counted

for a little more too.

We have been told that another snow storm

will be here this weekend. This is most

unusual for our area of Missouri.
When I was out earlier

the creek sounded like a raging river

from all the snow .

I hope you are off to a wonderful New

Year and have found many things

to keep yourself busy this winter. I could

make some suggestions but perhaps you have

already figured that out.

Here is the recipe for Orange-Buttermilk Tart:

You can use your own pie recipe
for the dough for a

single pie shell or tart.

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(Recipe used here with permission
from Victoria Magazine)

and I added a little more bling to my
New Year/Valentines mantle today:

Friday, January 11, 2019

SWEET WINTER BIRDS

My friends and I joke about feeding the

birds. I remember years back how all

the "older folks" fed the birds and now

here I am doing the same.

Yesterday I walked over to the Bonnie View
Nature Sanctuary and was going to take some
photos of the birds. However, the restrooms
were locked for the winter so I cut my visit
short since I was planning to be there for
a while and then walk back home.

Today, our state is getting a snowstorm.

I especially enjoy my finch feeder because

I love the yellow goldfinches. I didn't see

them in Colorado but we possibly didn't

put out the correct thistle seed. We did have
the red finches (why do they call them purple?)

I just refilled the feeder so it's
time to warm up with tea.

Saturday, January 5, 2019

2018 IN REVIEW

Last Year I initially forgot to do a yearly
review where I would select one post from
each month. This year I did remember
that so here we go with one post from each

month starting of course with January.

This January post was called
"DREAMING OF
SPRING"

In February I got out my violet pieces
of bone china to enjoy and this post
was called
"BRINGING OUT THE VIOLETS":

Of course in March the Easter and spring
decorating moved front and center but one
of the posts that caught my eye here was
one about "JANE AUSTEN'S IRISH PASSION":

Moving on to April I chose this post
from April 14, 2018: DAFFODILS

Just looking at that encourages me -
I forgot we can have daffodils in April
here in Missouri.

And now on to May where I
took these photos on a
"SATURDAY IN THE GARDEN":

You know I actually find this shocking that we
had these flowers in May. I guess I'm still
remembering Colorado and the almost non
existent spring.
This post I chose for June was about our
visit to The Dickey House Bed and Breakfast
in June. This was part of celebrating our
50th wedding Anniversary
which was May 31, 2018:

By July our garden was in bloom and
this post was about "CELEBRATING
GEORGE AND MARTHA WASHINGTON"
for the 4th:

In August I became acquainted with
Zinnias and saw that they can survive the
terrible heat in a Missouri Summer. We
really had little rain all summer.

"ZINNIAS'S TAKE THE HEAT":