Friday, May 2, 2008 - The White, Green, Black, and Herb of Tea
I visited Garden Goose today and found this lovely Blog-a-Thon at Gracious Hospitality all about tea! I recently changed my "About Me" to include tea, so this is great.
This weeks theme April 27-May 3:
Tell about your favorite tea. How do you prepare it and serve it? Milk and sugar? Plain? What are some of your best memories of serving or sipping on this tea? Share a picture if you can. Tell the health benefits of the tea(s) you prefer. Where do you purchase your tea? Is there someplace you enjoying purchasing tea from? Who from and where?
My favourite tea is from Dilmah. Because of the price I will also drink IGA Courtyard round bags or Madura Tea Estates. The last two teas are listed on this site as Australian. Dilmah has a website to visit here.
Tea is black tea to me. However, I do sometimes drink camomile with honey, with having so many children and extended breastfeeding, from memory I had to stop drinking it for awhile. I was amazed after buying chai tea, that I love the smell and it really made my cupboard smell nice for awhile. It even tainted some of the plastic cups, though lemon fizzy drink with the smell of chai tea behind it is lovely. The lemon drink had 211 in it, so I have only been buying natural lately, I think I am alergic. We have instant Dandelion tea in the house, and it is very nice, by Symingtons. The chai tea is missing hmmm. It must have got too much for them?
We buy the teabags that don't have the tag, they are more for teapots. I have mine in a mug white with two sugars. When I was little I had it black with two sugars, I think the same way my Dad had it. My memory is not good, but I think it is related to those teas I drank in the shearing shed when I was little. Still the best memory of drinking tea, in an enamel mug. My aunty made the tea, and had a giant teapot.
I remember recently after we bought our house that we are going to move into (I think lol) not wanting to discard the taps we found in that house. We had to in the end they were past their useby date, there were three types of turners, lots of things, but that seems like a long time ago. The bottom line was, the end of the tap reminded me of the same material that kettles and things are made of, coated brass. Already I have forgotten but the base is brass and the top a silver colour.
The preferred mugs in this house are white, with a picture on them and a certain size. Most were given to us. Recently I found one the same on ebay, and this time a picture of Raggedy Ann to celebrate 90 years. There is another one here. One broke the handle in the mail even though it was very strong, but fortunately my favourite one survived.
I buy my tea at IGA. I drive 50 minutes to get there every two weeks or a fortnight and drive on a dangerous but very scenic route.
I enjoy this shop very much, the staff are very friendly. Some people I meet there have my Dad's personality and they weren't even brought up in the same place. I wonder how that came to be?
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Blessings,
Connie