Archive for the ‘Tea’ Category
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
This month's LargerFamilies.com's Post-Mother's Day Topic asks the question: How do you take care of yourself?
"Of course, none of us went into this mom-of-a-big-brood thing with the expectation that it would come with oodles of free time. But as we all know, you have to refill the Mom well ...
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Okay, now that I got THAT out of my system, I'm going to enjoy a nice bowl of tomato basil soup, followed by tea. Gen maicha. Hot. And then knitting. Lots, and lots, and lots of knitting...
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Loose leaf tea
Cinnamon
Cardamon seeds
Cardamon pods
Cloves
Ginger Root
Pure Madagascar Vanilla
I love brewing chai, but alas, I struggle to find time to do it properly. Drawing the water, gathering the wood....well, it's just beyond me right now.
So for wabi sabi chai on the go (a TOTAL contradiction, I'm aware), I take a leisurely ...
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Here's what Wikipedia has to say about my favorite tea,
Genmaicha (玄米茶, Genmaicha? "brown rice tea") is the Japanese name for green tea combined with roasted brown rice. It is sometimes referred to colloquially as "popcorn tea" because a few grains of the rice pop during the roasting process and resemble ...
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