Currently sipping on...

Right now I’m sipping on the chilled third/fourth infusions of Adagio’s Black Dragon Pearls. I had the first & second infusions this morning, then realized that I was late getting to my Mom’s just after starting the third. So I poured it and a fourth infusion (since the color and taste was still relatively strong on the third so why not try a fourth) into a mason jar and stuck it in the fridge for later. Not too bad now.

Happy Monday, everyone! I’m staying perky with some Tawainese Oolong and I’m cold-steeping some of Verdant’sJasmine (it’s an experiment) for the hot afternoon hours. Then after work I have a new Verdant order to tear into! Bwahaha, tea for days!

My Adagio custom blend- Sweet Evening

Persimmon Tree Tea’s Periwinkle. I keep putting off reviewing it because I hate being first ^^;

Opus Rouge (from Teavana, don’t hurt me!). It tastes so good to me. I drink it hot with a dash of milk and a little bit of sugar. It absolutely relaxes me. I have it twice (once in the morning, once in the evening).

ALL the teas! Bwahahaha.

So I was making tamarind chutney today. Didn’t have any tamarind paste, but did have a block of tamarind. No problem, will just make my own paste. So I do that, and get the chutney to where I want it and realize that I still have a little bit of the paste left over. I of course think of Tamarind Pop by Butiki (which didn’t really work for me, but anyway).
I don’t really drink straight black tea, and only have a couple in my cupboard (I thought Laoshan Black might be too good for this experiment.)
I steeped a few cups worth of Bluebird’s Great British Cuppa (thanks Halliod for sending this to me), added a tablespoon of tamarind, and about a quarter cup of sweetener, tossed it in the fridge.
So the question is “what are you currently sipping on”, and the answer is a mad experiment – Bluebird’s Great British Cuppa with Tamarind, iced.
It’s actually pretty good.

Verdant’s wonderful Spring Harvest Laoshan Green, in my perfect-for-me new Sky cup from Rishi. I love the crackled celadon and the substantial weight of this in my hand, and I love drinking with the leaves brewed sans infuser – they’re so pretty unfurling right under my nose. Sixth wistful pour is just a ghost of the warm-rainy-spring-meadow-nap-near-an-ocean thing that I get from this one, so soft and grassy sweet and satisfying. A little bite of raw walnut, a tiny waft of sweet apple, and succulent green-ness.
OK, a a drop of honey just for the last few sips, for fun, and now all done, sigh.
I never think of kitchen vegetables when I drink green tea – it’s more like mosses and ferns and grasses and raw nuts and what all sorts of wild botanicals would taste like if they tasted like they smell.
Such a good tea it makes me want to cry, I was just in the mood for it.
Goodnight tea-people. Sweet dreams.

Spring 2013 Cui Ming from Yunnan Sourcing, it’s light, sweet, nutty, super fresh, and completely impossible to oversteep, everything one could want from a traditional chinese green. At first i thought it a bit lighter than i’d like, but it’s really growing on me.

Rooibos Creamy Coconut…yumm :)