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Another clearance-shelf snag to take to work, but I tried a cup at home first. Not bad, but a little less fruity than anticipated—the white tea leads, for sure. Another review called it “grassy” and that’s a pretty good descriptor. Summery hay grass. I wasn’t giving it my full attention, so next try, I’ll try to ferret out the fruit!

Do I get double points for two April health teas? This particular line of wellness teas evidently isn’t catching on in our neck of the woods—I keep finding them on the discount-please-take-it-home shelves; this time, at Big Lots.

Ah, well…serendipity for me, especially in the case of this oddball, but tasty blend that contains oatmeal, cinnamon, coconut milk, green banana flour, a little licorice, and dried blueberries.

I steeped my first bag in a mug with a dark interior, so I couldn’t tell whether it looks cloudy or milky due to the grainy ingredients. The oats are the first thing I noticed, then the cream from the coconut and banana flour (which didn’t taste banana-y), and the cinnamon that strengthened along the way, since I just left the bag in.

Overall, it was quite tasty—think “baby food” but in the most pleasant way, and if it cleans out the residue left by less-than-stellar dietary habits and a few Easter jelly beans, all the better!

This’ll get the check mark for “caramel” on this month’s list. It’s a light caramel, but it is the butter-iest vanilla rooibos I think I’ve ever tried. Creamy and extremely agreeable.

Here’s my April healthy tea: a “take a chance” grab on sale for $2 since I like to keep a lemon ginger tea on hand for tummy troubles and didn’t have any.

I’m too lazy to get up, but I need to look more closely at the label and compare to the Celestial Seasonings information I copied here. I would swear mine has lemongrass as well as regular ol’ lemon itself.

Plenty of ginger in the cup to warm your tongue, but either the lemon is very understated or the minerally taste of the zinc is very overstated, so it has a medicinal, rather than a fruity feel. A little honey might help next time around.

There…if this isn’t woody tea, I don’t know what is! Every time I make a cup, I’m surprised at how naturally sweet it is—just like the twigs had been dipped in brown sugar. Lovely.

Delicious day. Windows open, full-on sunshine! If I were a puppy, I’d be tempted to roll in the dandelions that popped up in the yard overnight. Instead, I’ve been picking up a truckload of sticks and limbs that blew down last week and over the winter. (The 100-plus-year-old maple in our front yard is a delight until it starts shedding sticks.)

After yard work and tug of war with some root-bound plant pots, this, the first iced drink of the season. It steeps well and quickly at room temp or in the fridge, but there’s a little too much licorice and hibi for me to enjoy it with no doctoring. (Some of you might like the straight-up sweetness.) So I popped a plain ol’ bag of Red Rose into the jar, which toned down the additives enough to get some strawberry and orange out of the deal.

The rest of the jar went into the fridge with a sprig from the rosemary plant we’ve been coddling all winter. We’ll see how it fares overnight.

Double dippity day, and this one even pairs with a book currently in progress on Mount To-Be-Read: A Dublin Student Doctor by Patrick Taylor. This is my second time through the series and they’re just as enjoyable as reruns: think All Creatures Great and Small set in small town northern Ireland with people, not animals.

The tea…again, nothing new: strawberries with coconut to add a little creaminess. There’s supposed to be a little rum-mishness in there, too, but I’ve never really picked up on it. Still, another favorite!

Seren-dippy-sippity! This is a tin I have eyed for sipping down anyway and I had a big tumbler full this morning even before I checked the April scavenger hunt list. Orange.
Nothing much new to say about it; still a favorite; sweet orange instead of tart; always a lovely little mood lifter; even the empty cup smells delicious.

This one is a survivor after months of office neglect. It is not elegant, fruity, or floral; just mildly toasty and not finicky. A keeper, at least for a while longer.

Work stash thinning again. I loved this one when the tin was new—it did had a lovely little caramelly pastry undertone. Fast forward to … well, much later than it should be, and the artificial flavoring has gone the way of Matthew Crawley (sigh). What’s left is a little berry and a little stale rooibos. Lady Violet would not approve.