Global Tea Time

While I had some milk in the house, I looked through my decaf options and found that I had another tea that would pair well with milk. Decaf vanilla chai. The ingredient list looked pleasant. Cinnamon, ginger allspice, and vanilla mixed with black tea. I opted to brew the tea bag in a smaller volume of water, and add the milk after. I don't remember if I microwaved the tea after adding the milk to make it warmer. I'll admit it was a couple of weeks ago when I made this, and I'm just now writing it up. At least it was still in March! Back when it was warm. Our winter seems to be inverted. It was warm, warm, warm, and now it's cold, cold, cold even though we are getting ever closer and closer to April. This tea was fantastic with milk. Smooth and creamy with a pleasant flavor of vanilla. Now I suppose I should get my behind up and dressed to go grocery shopping. I remember back before I moved to the country I would always be making little trips to stores when I was ti...

I recently had some milk in the fridge, and decided that I should look through my box for some tea that would pair well with milk. Double spice chai sounded like a good candidate. I tried a swig of it before I added the milk. I would say that the spice blend was clove forward with cinnamon next. Overall it was a fine tea without the milk. The addition of milk knocked the edge off the spices and made for a very smooth, enjoyable tea. Given the time change last night, now I wish that there was a double caff tea in this collection. Okay, honestly there isn't enough caffeine in anything to make this next week tolerable. Now to go continue my efforts of bringing order to this home now that I bought a nice big shelf for the second bedroom.

A few years ago acai berries had their time in the spotlight as a super food. I don't know if it still has that health washing or not. I don't really pay attention to those things anymore because I just can't take the blatant consumerism coupled with BS claims. I did however get a couple of acai berry tea bags in my Christmas box of teas. The other night I kind of wanted something, so I made a cup. It several of the decaf teas in this box have hibiscus in them, and this is one of them. The brew is the expected bright red. I'm not terribly fond of hibiscus. This had a strong hibiscus flavor with a bright berry note. I've been working on making a copy of my phases of the moon doily. It took the better part of the month of February to make it. I think it was probably 20 hours or so of work. Then I modified a pattern to make a gift for a friend who likes aliens and UFOs.