Tag: scones

• Fits Me to a Tea

  What’s your dream job? Lucky me, I married into a Louisiana restaurant family, and even better, a family who owned a restaurant I had been patronizing long before I met my husband. After we became a couple, I was allowed “in the back” as we always entered through the screen door to the kitchen. The…

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  January 20, 2026

  Essay

  afternoon tea, Ardillo’s Restaurant, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1823, dream job, Glasgow, pastries, retirement, scone recipe, scones, tea, tea cakes, tea sandwiches, The Queen Mary, The Shelbourne, The Willow Tea Room, The Windsor Court, The Wisteria Tea Room

• Food of the Gods

  What’s your favorite recipe? You might as well ask me who’s my favorite child! Seriously, I cook every day, and of course I have my favorites. My favorites depend on the season. There are things I love making when it is cold out like Carbonnade Flamande, which is the famous Flemish beef stew we ate…

  michardillo

  August 24, 2025

  Essay

  afternoon tea, Belgian beef stew, Cajuns, carbonnade flamande, chili, cooking, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2040, English breakfast tea, Gumbo, recipes, rotisserie chicken, scones, wings

• Links to Faith and Family

  Every morning, I instinctively reach up to feel for the rose gold chain and cross around my neck. I never take it off. It is more than just a sign of my faith; those gold links are a connection to my mother’s family in Scotland. In 1997 my mother’s first cousin, Anna Liddell, came from…

  michardillo

  February 8, 2015

  Essay

  afternoon tea, Britannia, castle, Catholic, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Highlands, Liddell, Loch Lomond, Louisiana, opera, Richard Strauss, Salome, scones, Scotland