July Sipdown Challenge Prompt – a floral tea
I finally opened the pouch I got for Christmas! My cupboard is getting low enough to allow myself to open some more teas.
Originally given to me by Youngest, this pouch was a Christmas gift from Ashman, who drank a Tea Grotto tea with me, liked it as much as I did, said it might be a good Christmas gift for me, opened his phone and made note of the Fruity Puerh we were drinking at the time, and then forgot the note existed. Then he was googling for tea to buy AliasHali and myself for Christmas and ordered precisely the two teas I loved, thinking he had found a new tea company we had ‘t tried. Christmas Miracle Tea.
This is first and foremost FIG. Sooooo figgy. Figgy, figgy, figgy. Open the pouch and KAPOW goes the fig. I love it. It is absolutely delicious. I am using this for the floral tea prompt because the lavender is definitely there but I admit it is a lovely, quiet companion of the fig rather than running neck and neck and yelling “look at me!”
The black tea base is solid, not too strong but strong enough for breakfast for sure. Now I wondering how this would be iced and whether I would even want to sweeten it. I drink it plain hot and it comes across as fig jam sweet already. Stay tuned.
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@ashmanra, your Christmas Miracle story is wonderful! I love figs. So much so that I buy them both fresh and dried and eat them as-is. But I keep hearing of terrific fig teas and maybe this will be the one I plunge for. Thanks for your report!
I checked my fig bush today and it has very few figs on it, still not ripe. Will this be the year the squirrels don’t steal them all before I get even one? We shall see. If I get enough, I am making jam, just for me! Ashman tolerates fig flavor in tea but doesn’t like figs or fig jam.
@ashmanra, your Christmas Miracle story is wonderful! I love figs. So much so that I buy them both fresh and dried and eat them as-is. But I keep hearing of terrific fig teas and maybe this will be the one I plunge for. Thanks for your report!
I checked my fig bush today and it has very few figs on it, still not ripe. Will this be the year the squirrels don’t steal them all before I get even one? We shall see. If I get enough, I am making jam, just for me! Ashman tolerates fig flavor in tea but doesn’t like figs or fig jam.