Here’s my very own House of Creativity, all decked out for Valentine’s Day! Wouldn’t it be great if I could make smoke rings in the shape of white hearts come from the chimney? (Someone should invent a Valentine heart chimney insert!). Right now, snow is pouring down outside my window, big heavy flakes, a little bit heart-shaped, filling the sky . . . Of course, there is perfect music for this . . .
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See my windows full of hearts? Our house is at the end of a long street; people come to a stop sign here and face my house, just like this. Because of all the one-way streets, pretty soon everyone has to pass this stop sign in order to get where they’re going on this island. ♥ I feel a certain responsibility to provide a some entertainment for people when they get here; it’s perfect for the short attention span! So I decorated my windows with leftover spray snow from Christmas. I made heart templates, little and big, from a piece of clear acetate. I’ve also made templates from cardboard, but they get a little soggy after about the twentieth heart! You could probably do it all faster with heart doilies!
We got a Valentine from a very special person yesterday! She knows who she is! (Thank you 1000 times ♥) Here it is, on our kitchen wall this morning, before the sun came up. This will be here from now on, every Valentine’s Day, forever! ♥ I love it!
What, I asked myself, can I give the girls this snowy Saturday that has it All? It needs to be sweet and Valentiney, it needs to include chocolate (yes, of course it does), it needs to be delicious enough to give away to someone they love, but simple enough so it’s not a lifetime in the kitchen; it needs to look good on a tea table; it needs to make the kitchen smell good; and it would be very handy if the ingredients were in my cupboard NOW. I thought about my chewy, bendy chocolaty Brownies (so here’s the recipe for those, particularly appreciated by kids, in case you are so inclined ♥) but I was looking for the true Valentine coup de grace, I wanted something heart-shaped. And, so, Voila!
ORANGE and CHOCOLATE CHIP TEA BISCUITS!
I love the flavor of orange with chocolate . . . this is an easy-to-make heart-shaped tea biscuit with melty chocolate chips, the perfect little thing to put on a saucer next to a cup of tea.
Here’s how it’s done; a concise recipe will be waiting for you at the bottom of this post, (if you make it through this whole thing 🙂 and actually, that’s not all that’s waiting for you at the bottom!)
Preheat the oven to 400°; put softened unsalted butter and cream cheese into a deep bowl . . .
Add grated orange zest (P.S. I hope you have one of these wonderful zesters! They’re like razor blades you drag lightly across the fruit, easy, painlessly, gathering the zest in the tray; then pop into your recipe! Best new invention since a MacBook Pro!)
Excuse me, time out: Water came to a boil, need to stop and fill my cup!
OK, toss the orangy goodness into the bowl . . .
Use a hand mixer to beat everything together until smooth . . . mmm, cream cheese, butter and orange . . .
Scrape down the batter in the bowl . . .
Add sour cream for richness and tender crumb. BTW, Don’t you think that when the world lost Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald that an overall mistake was made? Don’t you want to say, please, put them back? They left us music divine.
♥ H E A V E N ♥
Stir in two tablespoons of granulated sugar . . .
Gradually beat in a little flour until well blended . . . Oh-oh, check out the top of the refrigerator, we have company . . .
Speaking of Valentine’s! ♥ ♥ ♥
More beating of the flour . . .
Add mini chocolate chips — if you like walnuts, which I do, you can add them here too . . . which I would if we hadn’t run out! Almost had all the ingredients; but trust me, with them or without them, the word is Y U M.
Stir well, my little darlings . . .
Put a heaping tsp. of dough into each cup of an ungreased miniature muffin pan (I took this photo to show you what a heaping tsp. looks like) . . . I used my black-iron heart muffin pan, which I’ve had for a hundred years — I’ve truly gotten my money’s worth out of it! When it’s not in use, it makes my pantry wall look cute by hanging there. I know a secret about this muffin pan, I’ll tell you at the end of this post!
You want to fill the cups completely down into the little points, around the curved tops, so you have good shapes, and level the surface of the dough.
And bake 15-17 minutes until light brown . . .
Now look who showed up . . . Girl Kitty! Speaking of heaven!
We are complete: we have Beauty on the table, Beast is on the fridge, biscuits are in the oven, and all’s right with the world.
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Have a basket ready, line it with a clean tea towel . . . pop the biscuits right out of the pan into the basket, you don’t have to let them cool first.
Beautiful and delicious, they can bake as you put on the tea water, and be done by the time the tea has steeped . . . the orange is what you smell first, the chocolate melts on your tongue, and you are happy. ♥
I’m only tellin’ it how it is.
I tried them with this delicious new honey I put on everything these days (it came from Door County by the way, Pat, and all you others who know about and love that neck of the woods — you have the market cornered when it comes to butter burgers and honey!) — but I have to say, although it was delicious, it was gilding the lily; these tea biscuits are good just as they are, straight from the oven; you don’t need butter, you don’t need jam or syrup; you need nothing more. If you are looking for additional cuteness, and who isn’t, you can always sift over a little powdered sugar!
Serve one of these tea biscuits next to a cup of breakfast tea; put them in a basket for a tea party; or if you have a fun Valentine’s tin — they are a wonderful surprise, arranged on a lace doily and dropped by a friend’s house.
And, the secret I had about this muffin pan? Are you ready? OK, this pan, along with the heart-shaped Emma Bridgewater tin in the picture above — they are my Valentine gift to one of you. We’re having another drawing, and even though every one of you is totally deserving, one lucky girl is going to walk away with these two memories of Valentine’s Day 2012! Just leave a comment below (click on the tiny gray letters that say “comment” and you’ll be entered! I figure if I do this often enough and long enough, sooner or later, every one of you will win something with love from the heart of the home and me! That’s my plan.
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SATURDAY MORNING MARTHA’S VINEYARD
XXXXXOOOOO
Have you heard Paul McCartney’s new Valentine song? Go get a tissue, this is wonderful. I hear love for his new wife in this song, but I think I hear a bit of yearning for Linda too. ♥ Sad. 🙁 But Beautiful.
Bye for now girls . . . have a wonderful weekend!
ORANGE & CHOCOLATE CHIP TEA BISCUITS
- 1/4 c. unsalted butter, softened
- 1 – 3oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
- grated zest of one orange
- 1/2 c. sour cream
- 2 Tbsp. granulated sugar
- 1 c. self-rising flour
- 1/3 c. mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1/4 c. chopped walnuts (opt.)
Preheat oven to 400°. In a deep, medium-sized bowl, using a hand mixer on slow speed, beat together butter, cream cheese, and zest until smooth. Scrape down the bowl, add sour cream and sugar and beat well. Gradually beat in flour until well blended. Stir in chocolate chips. Put a heaping tsp. of dough in each cup of an ungreased miniature muffin tin (heart-shaped if you have it, but just as delicious if it’s round), filling the space completely and leveling the surface of the dough. Bake 15-17 minutes until light brown. Pop biscuits out into a basket lined with a tea towel … cover to keep warm. Can be reheated. Makes a dozen tea biscuits. Make these for you and someone you love. ♥
I dearly LOVE the muffin pan. It is perfect to share love all year round ! I can’t help but smile when I see your kitties as well. Thanks so much for the recipe, too. I will be trying it tomorrow !
nicki
Your blog was perfect for this cold, gloomy Saturday. I would love to win the Emma Bridgewater tin, the BIG LOVE line is one of my favorites. I also noticed the gift bags on your kitchen counter, are they available anywhere??? So cute!
We used to have them in our web store, not sure if we still do — but check it out.
Hi Susan
Love the music you had playing, love the hearts in the windows, love the snow falling video and I especially love the heart muffin tin. I am going to try that recipe today or tomorrow morning. They look so yummy.
It was snowing here in Ct today too. So lovely!!!
happy weekend Susan
deezie
Your blog is wonderful! I enjoy reading it, it really brightens my day, Thank you so very much.
Okay, here’s my comment….we happen to have one mostly black B&W boy kitty, like Jack, that’s named Buster and one mostly white B&W girl kitty, like Girl Kitty, named Kit Middleton. They are half siblings. Buster won’t fetch the ball and put it in a shoe, though. You’ve inspired us to keep trying. It’s just too cute and fun!
P.S. Buster doesn’t have as good of a mustache either…..you are blessed! 🙂
I would just LOVE a little love from your kitchen! I really do love heart-shaped baking things. Our wedding anniversary is Valentine’s Day, so it’s a little extra-special at our house, and how fun it would be to make heart muffins! Thanks for a super cute tutorial… I wish we could all win but I hope I do! 😉
Thank you VERY much for the recipe. I just made a batch and they are as simple and delicious as you say. I cut mine in a triangle shape, but how I would LOVE to win your delightful heart-shaped tin in the drawing. We do not have any snow flakes yet, here in Western, MA, so for now I shall just cuddle by the fire with my tea and biscuits and read some snowy tales to my children.
Jeanne
I love the hearts in your windows, Girl Kitty & Jack, those yummy biscuits (and now we have the recipe!), the adorable heart pan, the cool zester, the snow falling with the sound of the wind (this feels like time travel), the best ever music, everyone’s heart-felt comments and you! Happy Valentine’s Day (my personal favorite day of the year!)
You must love time travel like I do!
Oh, lovely day in your neck of the woods. We could use some of that snow over here in Northern California foothills. The ski runs in Tahoe are having hiking trips instead of snow skiing cause there’s no snow. :o(
But love the cute heart biscuits and tea. I’m going to make some for my dear friend and then we will have tea together because we don’t get to spend too much time together.
Melissa
Good Afternoon~
It ‘s good baking day here~ 15 degrees and beautifully sunny! Have to finish what didn’t get done yesterday!
Love what I have heard of the new Paul McCartney album~ but alas~ I’m a George girl at heart! I am actually listening to Etta James right now.
I saw you mention Butter Burgers again Susan and forgot all about Solly’s Grille in Milwaukee. They probably are the home of the original Butter Burger~ Grandma took us there when we would visit sometimes. I only remembered after I read about them somewhere last week. Sorry~ back to the subject! The heart shaped pan & tin are cute~So are Beauty & the Beast!
Happy Heart Day!
Lynn
I love your blog!!!! It’s a little bit of sunshine in my inbox!!! It’s the best part of checking my email!! I’d love to “adopt” the heart pan…I see so many possibilities!! <3 <3 <3
My little sister just loves tea biscuits…gonna send her this recipe asap!
My own dear Joe just made me a lovely cuppa, and I think I’ll have to thank him by making those orange chip muffins. It just snowed here in Virginia, so staying home next to a warm stove sounds like a perfect plan!
It’s snowing here in Virginia, too! I love a snowy Saturday. Thanks for sharing yours.
Perfect for afternoon tea!!!
I would love to win your giveaway! What a wonderful idea for Valentine’s Day.
Thank you
Oh Yum! I can smell them from here. This will be perfect for Sunday morning. The music and the two beautiful fur persons top it off. Thank you Susan, I am smiling.
I LOVE Valentine’s Day and all of your suggestions make it even more fun! Thank You!!
My Valentine and I have been together for over 30 years and I would love to bake a special treat for him. It is funny even now, when I talk about him, I giggle and act like the young girl I was when we married. He is a soul mate and I giggle because I am so blessed!!!
I am such a happy person after discovering your blog one week ago. I love it
so much I can’t stay away. I have 5 of your cookbooks (first editions) and can’t
wait to enjoy all the fun…forever! Where have I BEEN all these years!!!???
Glad to meet you Georgeann!
I feel the same way about this blog site, I now carry my IPad in my bag so I can read it everywhere I go !,,
Thank you for sharing your lovely home and kitties with us, Anniversary and Valentines day are just 2 days apart, the pan would make a lovely addition. Thank you again.
Susan R…Our Anniversary and Valentines are 2 days apart: February 12 and February 14! We were married in 1966. <3
Happy Anniversary!!
I had the same thought about “my Paulie.”
I love scones! Thanks for the receipe. I’m definitely going to bake some for my hubby (and maybe for my daughter/family and my best neighbor, Marly’s). Can’t wait!!
I won’t be home in the am to make the scones, so I printed one for my neighbor, Marlys and am putting it in her valentines day card. I’m sure she will like it. She treated me to scones and coffee this morning. She is such a wonderful friend. I’m sure we will share your scones receipe some day and have coffee enjoying them.
I heart… hearts… love love love. Thank you for inspiring me, all the time !! <3
love this! what a wonderful treat for valentine’s day morning – going to surprise my lovely lovely boy on tuesday morning. thanks for the inspiration! xox
Thanks for the chance to win! Happy Valentines Day!
I’m so happy whenever I see that you have a new post up! I wait until I have some peace & quiet time and then I sit, relax, read and enjoy. Your posts are always so uplifting & fun — a real bright spot in my day! Thanks for taking the time to spread sunshine to all of us!
Would I love to win the pan & tin??? Ah yes! Thanks for the chance.:)
Thanks for the chance to win!! Happy Valentine’s Day to you & Joe……and the kitties! LOL
Good afternoon, Susan….
Those valentines all over your windows for people to see as they are at the stop sign is soooo sweet of you! I also like the hanging valentine that one of the girlfriends sent to you guys is really pretty! I usually decorate the house for Valentine’s Day, but this year I didn’t. Everything like that is packed up ready to move once the house sells. That was almost a year ago. You know, they say nothing should be out that is personal.
I love the Valentine muffin pan! I really need that to help me decorate my kitchen once we’ve moved. I would be using it lots more than just Valentine’s Day. I’m sure that you don’t have too much of a say so in picking out the winner, but I can only hope!!
Have a great weekend!
Carol M
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Hi Susan –
The kitties are adorable….we have a black & white little guy too, named “Lorenzo”. We’re actually not too far from you…just a ferry ride away over in Onset.
Your house looks so charming with the hearts in the windows…might just do something like that with the granddaughters tomorrow! Have a great Valentine’s Day. Thanks for this cozy, comfy blog…..I love it. <3
Susan–you make my heart happy…and the world a gentler place. Reading your blog is one of the best parts of my day…I’m making those biscuits today for the girls at work tomorrow….
love your writing and cooking and baking. i would use the muffin pan over and over. thank you for offering it.
Hi there, this was a wonderful surprise on the this beautiful Saturday. I plan to make those heat biscuits for Valentines Day. Just have to find a heart muffin tin. As usual today was just great. That Jack is a character.
Karen Carpenter
That’s for sure!
Thanks for bringing Paul’s new song to my attention. I agree with you. I hear him talking to both women…lovingly.
I would love to be able to make heart shaped muffins for my next cousin tea party and tell the story of how I won the pan they were baked in along with a heart shaped tin. I am a fan of anything heart shaped. Thank you for a chance to win. The muffins look delicious.
Thank you for the musica and the scones – and the heart-y window treatment ideas too. You always seem to have the most perfect accompaniment. You’ve gifted us with your favorite book and movie lists, is it too greedy to ask for a music list too? You give us so much already, I feel a little greedy asking – but if you’re ever at a loss for a topic or just in the mood for music, that would be a great treat. There are so many wonderful golden oldies that I don’t seem to remember to think about to look for their music – at least not till I find them again, here on your blog. So glad we have recordings of Ella and Louis to still hear their music – but yes, can you imagine the music they might be making now? Heaven, indeed!
Wishing you and Joe, Jackie and Girl Kitty, a very happy Valentine’s Day!
I’m working on it, but this one may take a while! 🙂
Oh wonderful! I can hardly wait to hear your faves 😉
Why do pictures of Jack always make me smile??????
Thanks for the chance to win those great prizes!
Send some of that snow down this way (southern middle Tennessee).
Love, love, love, your Valentine Scones and pretty hearts in the windows!
What an incredible Valentine gift! You are amazing.
Your tea biscuits were an answered prayer–I was looking for just that sort of recipe. Thank you, as always, for the inspiration.
oh be still my heart how I love that heart pan!!! pick me pick me. nancy settel
Based on the picture I thought those were paper hearts and I decided to copy you because it’s so cute! Since I have no window “snow” pink and red paper it is.
I can smell them now!!! I love chocolate and orange together. You make every day so special!! I don’t know how you do everything you do but I appreciate your sharing your life with all of us. Happy Valentine’s day to you and Joe.
This is the first time I’ve been on your website and I love it! You have so much to look at and I especially love your Valentine recipe. What a unique idea. Even if I don’t win the lovely prizes, I will be baking these. I can just imagine the wonderful smell…..
Thanks for the lovely post with such a yummy recipe and some snow! Happy Valentine’s Day to you, Joe, the kitties and all of the rest of the girlfriends. You bring such joy to our lives!
good afternoon susan and jack and girlie and joe!
i am enjoying a nice cup of tea myself after all the satday am errends, a cup of tea and susan’s blog, perfect afternoon break! jack looks as if he is thinking……. do i get to lick the bowl?????? the muffins sound yummy and the tin is very cute, it would go well with my collection of cast iron cooking stuff. i am baking valentines cookies this weekend for daughter and my coworkers. dig out the sprinkles! enjoy the snow for me.
blessings
natasha
What a wonderful gift. HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!! It is so nice of you to share your ideas with us it makes it seem like a visit from a great friend. THANKS!!
Susan, you continually inspire me (and ALL your girlfriends…hope it’s okay to consider you my girlfriend, I’ve loved you for years!)!!! Thank you for another superb blog post, you ALWAYS make me smile 🙂
Makes me so happy to hear that!
Hi Sue!
“When two fond hearts in one unite, the yoke is easy & the burden light!”;
my favorite motto of all time! I wish I knew the writer but since I don’t, I’ll have to give creedance to “Anonymous”. Perhaps a more suitable credit for the quote; however, would be: “Vintage Dishtowel”, the true origin of this beauty!
Love & Prayers to Your MV Happy Heart from Mine in OH!
Bunny
I have it on a plaque in my kitchen, but still no attribution!
Love your idea for the heart-shaped chimney insert! The white hearts in your windows look just like heart-shaped snowflakes! How wonderful. I’m sure everyone who stops at that stop sign enjoys seeing them, and drives away with a happy heart. Thanks for sharing you and your love with all of us. Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy Valentines Day! And would love to be able to make those biscuits next year for my “hunny”! Great give aways!
I’d love to have that heart muffin pan, but you are our Valentine’s Day (and every other holiday) gift. I’m like a little kid at Christmas when I see that I have a new blog – can’t wait to open my gift. I hope you realize the joy you bring to all of us.
We just added another “Branchie” at lunch the other day. Three of us discuss you as if you’re part of our family (because that’s how we feel), and Katie finally decided that facing that dreaded computer was the only way she could share. She’s so happy she became a “Girlfriend”.
Me too, isn’t that fun!
A wonderfully “love”ly muffin pan! It’s a beautiful day here, while I read your news I’m surrounded by “Baby Love” fabric that I’m using to quilt a shopping cart seat cover for my grand-daughter. Couldn’t be better!
Beauty and The Beast and Biscuits! I love that.. The recipe looks really good, will definitely try it.. I’d love to win the hearts pan. I would like to see it hanging on my pot rack. My son and I danced to Louis’ “What a Wonderful World” at his wedding for the son/mother dance. What a special moment I will always remember, it was one of my Dad’s favorite songs. Keep up the good work Susan. Love your blog, and Jack and Girl Kitty!
Joy ! I just love when there’s a new post, especially one with food!
I just loVe that you show as you go !!
I don’t have a zester, so the cheese grater will have to do ::)
Thanks for adding a litte extra coziness to my day !!!
Lori
yum, delicious little bisquits! how sweet to share not only the recipe, but the treasured minimuffin tray and the tin! tins are one of my favorite things … i store little treasures in them and occaissionsally give them away, too. once i gave a tin to a niece for her birthday — she never opened it; her daughter said she tossed it later in the day. bite my tongue, i never told her what was in the tin.
YOU MUST TELL US!
WHAT was in the tin?
(i’m serious, you know. it’s a mystery lovers first question! )
Hi Susan,
Thanks for the precious blog!! Always love your step by step recipe photos plus pictures of Jack!! He is too cute!! Your house looks so festive!! I wanted to know if I could substitue cranberries for the chocolate chips? Would you use the same amout of them as you would choc. chips? Love the Valentine that was sent to you and Joe!! I hope you and all of your sweeties have a wonderful Valentine’s Day!! 🙂 Thanks for always bringing joy to my day!! 🙂 You are the best!!! GOD Bless!!! Love and Hugs!!! Tricia B. XOXOXOXOXO
Goodness gracious I didn’t mean to forget Girl Kitty. She is lovely!! 🙂
Yummy heart biscuits & a pot of tea – all I need is my daughters, granddaughter & a friend or two to share it with. Would love to win, but if not will have to make do with something I have. Can’t waste that good recipe. Thank you for the window into your heart & home.
I am looking out at the snow and feel inspired to bake! Thanks for all of your ideas. Happy Valentine’s Day to you, Joe and the cutie pie kitties!
Lovely blog…lovely music…lovely recipe…thanks so much!!!
loved the imagined smell of baking these and can’t wait to look for fragrant honey to add to my collection. yum
Love the muffin pan and tin! I only cook with cast iron but I don’t have this! thank you for the generous contest :o) Love the Valentines in the windows!
I don’t usually make much of a fuss for Valentine’s Day, but found myself getting into the spirit this year as I prepared a care package to mail to our college kid far away. I do, however, always enjoy delicious home baked treats. I look forward to trying your heart biscuit recipe, Susan (she typed while listening to “Heaven”).
Since I’m the queen of cast iron cookware and LOVE IT, also my last name is English (England), I really would love to win this heart shaped pan to go with everything else I have collected through the years. Nope, I don’t have any shaped like hearts… wonder how that happened? Well, I hope to fix that here soon. Recipe sounds delicious and I’m going to make it… I’m just not sure what pan I’m going to use yet. I would love and cherish your pan…. ; ) I can just see tea with my twin granddaughters age nine and these heart shaped tea biscuits. Thank you for sharing with us. Have a great Valentine’s Day….
Oh Susan, What a wonderful post, as always. Love the Valentine goodies! You heart-covered windows whisper happiness, love and contentment reside within. And, the biscuits – oh my. I must make them. Now, okay, very soon. I have a huge pot of short ribs in the oven and warm artichoke dip ready to go in soon. It smells wonderful…needed for a very cold day, barely broke 20, the sun is shining though here in the windy mid-west. Thanks for such a generous, heart-felt giveaway. Hope the rest of your day is splendid, warm, cozy and love-filled. Hugs & love, Jeanette
Yum! I can’t wait to make the biscuits for my family. Don’t have the heart-shaped pan though…would love to win it and the Bridgewater tin. Thanks for offering us girlfriends the chance to win! Happy Valentine’s Day to you and Joe! Love Girl Kitty and Jack, too! xoxoxo
Hi there ! Did your “Saturday Morning Snowfall” amount to any accumulation ?? It started out that way here in CT this morning ….. we were anticipating some accumulation, but ……………. no. 🙁 Take care, Helen P.S. Would love to see that quaint “muffin tin” hanging in “my” kitchen. 🙂 Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
Just a little bit, it came down wonderfully fast and hard and long, but the temperature is rising I think!
It’s cold and rainy outside here and I could smell the biscuits baking!! Would love the tin and hearts pan but the recipe is good enough. *L* I will be make these. Little Jack is getting so big and will be a handsome young man soon instead of a wee babe. Girl Kittly is lovely as always. Very regal I think. Everyone stay warm and enjoy the rest of the weekend. *S*
Oh pick me, pick me! I just love Valentine’s Day – it’s my second favorite holiday (after Christmas of course). I could make a very happy home for those items…
love – love your blog
Sitting in my sewing room playing ahhhhh. Pick up my nre iPad to check messages and there is your new blogAhHHHHhhhh?…I am happy looking out at our new dusting of snow here in upstate new York. Now I will go to the kitchen and make those delicious scones and put on the teapot….thank you again for a fun visit xoxo
Thanks for the chance to win & for the recipe! Can’t wait to try it!
Thank you for brightening my day…as you always do! I would be filled w/ happiness to drive by your house & see all the heart-filled windows. You could be called the “Queen of Martha’s Vineyard” for all the joy you inspire daily!
The recipe sounds “divine”–am off to be sure I have the ingredients to make and surprise my dear neighbor! Thank you, thank you!
Oh, I’m so glad you explained how to post comments! Can you tell I’m a bit on the tech challenged side? I love your site and your photos make my heart smile. Thank you!
Nicky
You did it! Good for you!
Oh yes the tin would be darling with my other heart treasures
nettie, you’ve got my nickname! we must be “kindred spirits!”
my mother also calls me “netsy” to this day…….and i’m almost sixty years old!
how nice to meet another “nettie!”
Just a little rain here is So Cal! Cool morning! I think the yummy orange Chocolate would be wonderful tomorrow, Sunday, morning for breakfast before church!!
Love the heart pan!!
I love Valentine’s Day, it is what dreams are made of…LOVE!
Thank you for your energy you put into your blog, I am constantly overjoyed every time I see your name on my emails….Have a BEAUTIFUL day!
The Susan Branch Bug has bitten me…..and my first 3 books are on their way to my mailbox this coming week. Meanwhile, I love that you are sharing your recipes and your warm home with all of us. And now I think I have qualified for your baking tin and gift tin…..happy day!
Oh my goodness! The recipe looks delicious and the heart-shaped pan and tin are perfect. My daughter and I love to have proper teas on special occasions and these will be a perfect addition to the tea tray but easy enough to make any ole day. Thanks Susan! XO
Thank you for sharing a moment of your wonderful life…
I look forward to all your blogs, they are always up lifting & inspiring.
Enjoy your weekend.
Chris.
I am drooling! What a yummy looking treat! Happy Valentines Day to you and yours – a little scratch under the chins to the babies! 🙂
Those tea biscuits look so good! I would loooooove the muffin tin! It’s adorable! 🙂
Hot diggity, each one of us will eventually win something – who will the lucky one be this time? 🙂 To be truthful – opening up email and finding a blog from you is a wonderful gift!! Thanks for you, and thanks for the chance for the biscuit tin!!
They would be purrrfect for my kitchen. Thank you!!!
The moment I saw you had posted my joy started, and then I noticed you had Valentine in your heading and my heart leaped with joy! I knew delights would follow and of course they did.
Thank you once again for sharing your world with your “girlfriends”! Loved the recipe of course and the photo of your home decked out for Valentines was so pretty! But always love the videos of your life with your feline pals, always makes me smile! Sometimes my husband comes in here to see what I am laughing at and then we both are soon giggling over Jack’s newest tricks! And the snow was wonderful to see! Here in Alabama we are finally having a blustery cool day, but it has been almost like summer here this year, very disappointing for a former Florida girl who wishes for snow! So thanks so much for the snow!
xoxoxo
The muffins look so good, I will be trying them very soon. I love your blog! It has such cute things in it. I have bought & filled 2 of your Christmas memories books when my boys were little. Was so sad to see them go out of print. Hopefully some day I can find another one! You are very talented! Have a good day!
What a perfect way to use the mini choc chips I accidently bought! Thanks for sharing. (Now I have to make a trip to the store to get the orange..ha!)
There’s always something!
Ooooo. I can’t wait to make some Orange and Chocolate Biscuits tomorrow morning as a treat! Yea! Sure wish I had a heart shaped pan to bake them in, but they will taste delicious baked in the pan I have at hand. Thanks for the recipe, Susan!
Please, please give St. Valentine his due. He was a priest and is a saint in the calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. No one would say Patrick’s Day as it is well known as St. Patrick’s Day. Help us to give St. Valentine the same courtesy as you have a large audience.
Always enjoy your posts and would also like to tell you I found a sweet wooden recipe box in blue and white for my kitchen as I loved how you explained what it meant to you in your giveaway of a wooden recipe box. Mine reminds me of you and the importance of family recipes.
Joyfully,
~Sylvia Faye
Happy Valentine’s Day. I love your blog. It makes my day when you have written something.
I love everything Susan Branch…and can never find enough!! My acupuncturist always signs her mail “BIG LOVE” and I would so love to win that tin for her!!
I’ll be making the scones very soon…and would also love to win your heart muffin pan. I collect anything “hearts”…and I “heart” you, dear, sweet Susan!!
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY to you and your soulmate, Joe!! :-))
Well your house looks so cute! Of course I was at the very stop sign many many times, and last year I pulled out the camera to take a pic of the big giant flag over Labor Day~and posted it on my blog….and that was when I found out YOU lived in the house. Loved the song by Paul..lovely. And I would love to win the hearts muffin tin, as my bday is the day after Valentines day…and I always make a heart shaped cake (cuz my mom always made it for me when I was little)…and if I won the tin, I could have breakfast in hearts as well!
Happy Birthday Amy!
Thanks for the recipe! I wish I had a heart shaped pan! Here’s a Valentine recipe for you..pop about 2/3 c. popcorn, no butter. In a double boiler melt a 12 oz bag of white chocolate chips. Pour over the popcorn with some heart shaped Valentine sprinkles. Toss well. Chill to harden. Serves one. : )
Ohhh – please pick my entry, I LOVE that heart baking pan and the idea of putting the scones into the heart tin – what a treat, what a lovely idea!!!
If I don’t win it (I NEVER win any drawings – there could be two entries and the other person would win the drawing) I’ll search the internet for one…
Hugs to you all, especially little Jack-Be-Nimble…
Good day Susan!
My, those biscuits look incredible! Thanks so much for sharing the recipe and tutorial. I love, love, love the heart shaped pan! The tin is very cute too! Thank you for entering me in your generous giveaway, it would be a blessing to win such goodies 🙂
Have a wonderful weekend Susan! 🙂
~Sharon
Hey Susan, I’ve never posted before, but have been a fan since way back. I just had to say ‘hi’ this time because you forced me to stop my lurking by having another delightful giveaway!! Thanks so much for all the inspiration you provide me – it helps to know you are there on your little island spreading love around. I live on a little island on the other side of the country called Vashon Island – accessible only by boat too. I can relate to some of your ferry journeys and a few other joys of island living. xxxooo Lynndee
Glad to see you here Lynndee!
I love getting your posts in my email everyday…..I have to say that I love reading about your trips and daily goings on at your place. I really like all the recipes that you share and I will be trying this one this weekend. I would really love to own this little heart pan and tin….thank you for being so generous with your readers and followers. As I said before I love it here……
Ooooo, another great giveaway, pick me, pick me (just saying ;)!
The scones look yummy. I gifted myself with 2 (yes 2!) chocolate croissants for pre-Valentine’s Day breakfast cheer this morning ;). We just have to have chocolate for Valentine’s Day, right? And maybe the week before . . . and for a few days after?
G
So sorry if this is a second entry – but I checked over and over and didn’t see my entry post. I simply HAVE to be in the running for that darling muffin pan. I enjoy your blog so much – and always love to see what you are working on.
Happy Valentine’s Day, Susan !
Nicki
Oh, Susan I had not finished reading your blog…..when I sent my first reply. I
love, love )scones) biscuits and your heart-shaped ones melted not only in my mouth but in my heart. Would I love to win it…..you bet your boots I would. Please, please enter me in the draw.
I have most of the ingredients and will make them when (I hope) I win the pan.
Thank you for the giveaway, the recipe and the encouragement to cook tasty sweet smelling goodies.
Joyfully,
~Sylvia Faye