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Start Your Thanksgiving Plans with Tea
Time to start making Thanksgiving plans, beginning with the menu. Turkey ― check! Cranberries ― check! Stuffing ― check! Sweet potatoes ― check! Green bean casserole ― check! Tea ― che… uh… huh? Tea with your Thanksgiving feast sure isn’t usual here in the U.S. despite the growing awareness of tea for enjoyment and possible… Continue reading
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Tea Shop as Pharmacy?
With all of the claims for health benefits from tea flying around online and just about everywhere else, tea shop owners are being besieged by people demanding the latest tea fad. When the shop personnel say “I’m sorry we don’t carry that tea,” the customer treats them as some horrible ogres who are personally responsible… Continue reading
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20 Reasons to Drink Tea in November
November is upon us. Ten months gone, and two to go in our annual journey through space around the Sun. The biggies this month are U.S. Election Day (1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday), Veteran’s Day on the 11th and Thanksgiving (U.S.) on the 24th (always the third Thursday). But first, a few month-long observations:… Continue reading
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Curds at Tea Time
Let’s face it ― the word “curds” tends not to stir the appetite. Maybe it’s because of the nursery rhyme (Little Miss Muffet on her tuffet eating those curds and whey ― cottage cheese to you and me). However, curd is quite a pleasant thing sometimes. There are two basic types of curds: dairy and… Continue reading
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Tea Dilemma — The Awkward Bit
It can happen — that tea dilemma — and usually does when you least expect it. You go to pour a cuppa from the teapot, anticipating that flow of fragrant, delicious tea to fill your cup, but … agh! you barely get enough for a good swallow or two. That’s the “awkward bit” leftover from… Continue reading
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Making a Pumpkin Pie for Tea Time
Those little pie pumpkins are popping up in grocery stores and farmers’ markets, signaling that it’s time to make a pumpkin pie for tea time! We picked our pumpkin and headed home to make this tasty treat that is becoming an annual tradition in our house (hubby baked pies the two previous years around this… Continue reading
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Sylvakandy Estate Ceylon Tea — Sheer Delight!
Sylvakandy Estate Tea from Ceylon just upped my taste standards when it comes to a nice cuppa black tea. The taste is quite distinctive from teas grown in the Assam area of India despite the varietal of Camellia Sinensis being the same (Camellia Sinensis assamica). A lot of Ceylon teas are machine-processed and bagged, but… Continue reading
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Tea and Candy Corn
Candy corn is available all year round, but in Autumn it seems to be much more prevalent. Perfect for a little something sweet to have with a nice cuppa tea. What Is Candy Corn Candy corn is, as the name suggests, candy that is shaped like oversized kernels of corn. It is sugar laden, so… Continue reading
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Developing Tea “Color Vision”
Color is an important element in the world around us, whether it’s the color of the paint on the walls and other décor of your humble abode, the colors of nature changing from season to season, or the color of the tea you’re drinking. You just need to develop your “color vision” to truly appreciate… Continue reading
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Tea Tin Parade
That “Pioneer Spirit” is alive and well in me, the part that just can’t bear to let go of something with a smidgen of potential to be used in one way or another. This is especially true of empty tea tins. Tea was originally shipped from The East to Europe in metal-lined wooden chests, fine… Continue reading
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