My favorite kind of tea right now is Bigelow's French Vanilla. I steep the tea bag for quite a long time, until the tea itself is a lovely black-brown. Then I add sugar, usually around two spoons. And finally, a wee bit of milk until it is a very soft, very even light brown, the color of the lightest bricks in the building across the street from the window at my right. Above all, it smells heavenly.
Oolong tea is also wonderful, although I haven't had it in quite a long time - nearing a year now. I usually took oolong without any milk, though usually the same amount of sugar. Sadly, I don't really know where to find oolong tea in my area. Hy Vee certainly doesn't have it, although I look every time. I just have to keep my eyes open. Maybe the Super Wal Mart will have some when it opens. *fingers crossed*
For a long time, peppermint tea was my staple, back when I liked my tea to be the equivalent of hot Kool-aide: sugar water with a bit of flavoring.
I've had chai before, though the flavor was terribly weak in the one cup I had, which was rather disappointing. I also made do without sugar to taste (because I still cannot resist having my tea sweet). That may have colored my judgement.
I do believe that tea is pretty high in my most favorite things in the world. Like hot chocolate (oooh, craving) it's a very comforting drink. When the cold nights of South Dakota settle in on the streets, and the trees are limned with a frost that somehow makes the stars and the moon much more clear, a good cup of tea will envelop even the coldest of spirits, blocking out that howling, whistling wind that sweeps up over the plains. It will settle you, and is a wonderful companion for an evening with a simple, easy-to-watch movie. It's as classic as the Iliad.
Comic:
VG Cats - Videogame Cats. Good art, very cute.Brain thinky:
3829. If you’re sleeping in Africa, and an elephant wakes you up, is that natural? Of course it is! So all you need is an alarm clock that makes an elephant noise!
Adeiras · Wed Oct 06, 2004 @ 01:52am · 1 Comments
