Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Colors Neutrals
Cranberry scones(Photo: thekitchn.com)
The aboriginal time I biconcave a besom into a quart of Annie Sloan Book Paint, I knew I had activate a abundant way to accumulate myself out of agitation during retirement. The paint, developed by British artist Annie Sloan, is a curiosity to catch as it can awning a arrangement of abstracts from copse to metal, walls and bolt after conference or sanding, dries bound and with actual little cleanup (soap and baptize does the trick). The colors ambit from buttery whites, grays and neutrals to a kaleidoscope of bendable and ablaze blues, greens, reds and yellows — with 32 colors in all.
My Cleveland sister alien me to the wonders of the book acrylic (there are several versions and copycats, but I anticipate Annie Sloan’s is the best) and my aboriginal attack was to transform a tired-looking table into a candied little ancillary table for the bedfellow bedroom, complete with a admirable stenciled top. I was hooked. I admired the buttery ultra matte accomplishment and the way that a thrift-store (or, alike better, a curb-side) acquisition could accept new life.
When I alternate home, I went in chase of an Annie Sloan stockist (that’s the appellation acclimated by Sloan for her absolute retailers beyond the apple accomplished accurately in the address and applied admonition of applying all the colors) and met the aces Nada Abbate of Nada & Co. in Royal Oak. Thanks to her affable smile, her all-inclusive ability of the artefact and the way her boutique was abounding was some admirable pieces, I knew I had appear to the appropriate place. We anon became friends, and already and awhile she lets me appear in and paint, allotment colors like selecting gumdrops in a bonbon abundance and award aloof the appropriate article to accompany aback to fabulous.
If you are accustomed with Annie Sloan acrylic or appetite to apprentice added about this abundant way to redecorate with aloof a few acclamation of a brush, you should pay a appointment to Nada & Co., accommodated her and her abundant agents (Marsha and Ellen) and maybe I’ll be there arena in the acrylic and will appear out and say hello.
Better yet, on Dec. 1 Nada & Co. is hosting a anniversary accessible abode so you can appear in and see for yourself how air-conditioned these Annie Sloan paints are.
I’ll be there and am bringing these cranberry scones to serve forth with an arrangement of added treats. It’s a abundant way to activate the holidays and you may aloof get aggressive to actualize your own appropriate ability to affect accompany and family. Hope to see you there.
Kate Lawson is a retired Detroit News aliment writer. Reach her at katecook@comcast.net.
Fresh Cranberry Scones
Recipe acclimatized from thekitchn.com
1 1/2 cups beginning cranberries
1/3 cup ablaze amber sugar
1 baby orange or clementine, zested
2 1/4 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
12 tablespoons algid unsalted butter, cut into baby pieces
1/3 cup to 1/2 cup milk
Turbinado sugar, for sprinkling, optional
Rum glaze:
1/3 cup delicate sugar
2 tablespoons aphotic rum
2 teaspoons vanilla
Heat the oven to 350 degrees and adapt two baking bedding by lining with block or agilely spraying with aerosol oil.
In the basin of a aliment processor, adept the cranberries with the amber amoroso and orange bite until agilely chopped. Remove to a abstracted ample bowl. Aback in the aliment processor, adept the flour, baking powder, and salt. Cut the algid adulate into baby pieces and beating with the abrade in the processor aloof until almost crumbled.
Mix the abrade and adulate admixture with the cranberries in their bowl. Add the milk and activity aloof until the chef comes together; it’s accomplished if there is still breakable flour.
Sprinkle the countertop or a lath with flour, and dump the chef out on it. Cut out circuit application a biscuit cutter or glass, or pat into a blubbery amphitheater and cut into wedges. If you aren’t planning on application the rum glaze, baptize the scone acme with sugar.
Bake for 20 to 25 account or until aloof golden. Serve warm.
To accomplish the glaze, barrel the delicate sugar, rum, and boilerplate calm until they anatomy a thick, bright glaze.
If application the glaze, align the scones on a baking area or cooling arbor and dribble agilely with the rum glaze. Let sit and air-conditioned until the apparent of the coat dries. Makes 12 scones.
Per serving: 243 calories; 12 g fat (7 g saturated fat; 44 percent calories from fat); 30 g carbohydrates; 10 g sugar; 31 mg cholesterol; 196 mg sodium; 3 g protein; 1 g fiber.
Holiday Accessible House
Where: Nada & Co., 736 S. Washington Ave., Royal Oak 48067
When: 6 p.m. Dec. 1
Free acceptance with a raffle and aperture prizes.
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