Tea (in teabags this time)
May. 31st, 2009 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
narcasseQuite some time ago I picked up some of Yogi Tea’s Choco Aztec Spice tea. It was presumably meant to be spiced chocolate tea and it did smell like lightly spiced chocolate once brewed. Unfortunately, much like most Yogi teas I’ve sampled, it didn’t taste much like anything of the sort but having enjoyed their Egyptian Liquorice with the addition of two spoons of sugar to bring out the flavour I found that the same trick work here more or less. It didn’t quite work as well as it worked with the Egyptian Liquorice but then I’m not terribly fond of chocolate anyway. Suffice to say I’m very tempted to take the box in to work and ‘generously’ donate it to my co-workers.
On the digestive tea front I managed to pick up some Palanquin brand spearmint tea from the wholesalers a while ago but upon my trip there today found that they’d moved everything around and seemingly removed some products, my spearmint tea among them. It’s possible that the tea was there and that I simply couldn’t find it among all the rearranged produce but considering the sudden lack of Turkish products as well I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s simply gone. Thankfully Jacksons of Piccadilly do a Chinese green tea with mint that works just as well for me. It’s lighter than the Palanquin tea and probably wouldn’t stand up to vast amounts of honey in it though.
I’d also tried Pukka brand detox tea which contains aniseed, fennel and liquorice which I expected to aid my digestion. It did but to a point that involved stomach cramps and the desire never to consume solid food matter again on my part. I don’t take too well to waking up a few hours after having retired to bed in pain and wondering if I’m going to die it seems.
Less drastically, since I’d enjoyed Palanquin’s spearmint tea I decided to try their spiced tea/traditional masala chai which was charming enough but always seems to come out a little milky when I make it. Possibly that’s because I’m always sure that the tea itself needs to be lighter to match with the colour that homemade Indian tea always comes out which results in my adding too much milk. The Palanquin tea apparently contains black pepper too which has never been one of the ingredients that I’ve heard included in the recipe but it does give it a nice kick which is a pleasant enough change from the usual, smooth flavours that the homemade variety always possesses. That said perhaps the genuine recipe does include black pepper but the recipe ported over for Burmese tastes simply removed it.
Lastly then, I’m currently trying Pukka’s night time tea which contains oatstraw, lavender and camomile, and if it’s half as strong as any of other teas of the same brand I’m liable to wake up face down on my keyboard at five in the morning. It does taste quite nice though that might be partially due to a liberal spoon of 5+ manuka honey which I intend to keep dosing myself with until I feel generally less fragile again.
On the digestive tea front I managed to pick up some Palanquin brand spearmint tea from the wholesalers a while ago but upon my trip there today found that they’d moved everything around and seemingly removed some products, my spearmint tea among them. It’s possible that the tea was there and that I simply couldn’t find it among all the rearranged produce but considering the sudden lack of Turkish products as well I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s simply gone. Thankfully Jacksons of Piccadilly do a Chinese green tea with mint that works just as well for me. It’s lighter than the Palanquin tea and probably wouldn’t stand up to vast amounts of honey in it though.
I’d also tried Pukka brand detox tea which contains aniseed, fennel and liquorice which I expected to aid my digestion. It did but to a point that involved stomach cramps and the desire never to consume solid food matter again on my part. I don’t take too well to waking up a few hours after having retired to bed in pain and wondering if I’m going to die it seems.
Less drastically, since I’d enjoyed Palanquin’s spearmint tea I decided to try their spiced tea/traditional masala chai which was charming enough but always seems to come out a little milky when I make it. Possibly that’s because I’m always sure that the tea itself needs to be lighter to match with the colour that homemade Indian tea always comes out which results in my adding too much milk. The Palanquin tea apparently contains black pepper too which has never been one of the ingredients that I’ve heard included in the recipe but it does give it a nice kick which is a pleasant enough change from the usual, smooth flavours that the homemade variety always possesses. That said perhaps the genuine recipe does include black pepper but the recipe ported over for Burmese tastes simply removed it.
Lastly then, I’m currently trying Pukka’s night time tea which contains oatstraw, lavender and camomile, and if it’s half as strong as any of other teas of the same brand I’m liable to wake up face down on my keyboard at five in the morning. It does taste quite nice though that might be partially due to a liberal spoon of 5+ manuka honey which I intend to keep dosing myself with until I feel generally less fragile again.
