Tea & Smoke

This cookie is a holiday-time tradition, but great all year long. And, it's actually more American than apple pie. (Ahem ~ The earliest recorded apple pie recipe appeared in an English cookbook in 1381!) The sugar cookie as we know it is genuinely American, created in the 1700s by Moravian settlers in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, who baked simple “Nazareth Sugar Cookies” from flour, sugar, butter, and eggs and shaped them with cutters. While older European cookies, like German Spr

There's something about mint and winter. It's odd that a cooling herb would be so perfect in the coldest months yet somehow, they're a...

A common garden friend, thyme is a heart perennial and can grown just as well in a container as in the earth. Thyme has many medicinal...