Monday TeaDay 6/7/10 FoodDay, yes or no?

[brad4419]

No tea with food today but usually I drink tea with my morning oatmeal but today I was in such a rush I just made the oatmeal and skipped the tea Thats ok though because when I got home I found a nice cardboard box from o-cha at my door

[Skippyandjif]

This afternoon, I drank Chinese green tea with lotus petals, and I'm currently waiting for water to boil so I can make a lavender-rooibos tisane. Neither of these accompanied food-- both have been either an after- or before-meal beverage.

[entropyembrace]

Chilorio tacos with 2004 Liu An tonight


the chilorio is delicious but unusually hot...I couldn´t find any ancho chillis so I used red jalapeño´s Rich earthyness of the Liu An goes well with the spice

I´m also impressed with how much the Liu An is developing! When I bought it in 2007 it was basically a smooth, woody green tea...now it´s getting quite dark with a more earthy flavour. I´ve just kept it in my bedroom closet at ambient humidity.

[debunix]

First reply to the topic was for Sunday. Today was a typical workday: started the morning with Shincha (Tenryu Misakubo from Yuuki-Cha) by itself; breakfast was hot chocolate, so not really something to be accompanied by tea; lunch had plain water as beverage; then came a long meeting and paperwork session with tea (a Dan Cong experimentally bulk-brewed for the thermos, a remarkably bland form of such a normally fantastic tea), and a snack partway through, but mostly just tea; then evening Jade Pole Yunnan green tea from Yunnan Sourcing with dinner; and now going to finish with another infusion of hydrangea leaf from Hankook, by itself.

[LauraW]

Typically yes, or shortly thereafter - in the morning, tea accompanies breakfast, usually at the office. If it's the weekend, 1st tea usually still accompanies breakfast, or lunch, whatever the first meal ends up being. I tend to do 3-5 cups of tea at work over the course of the day, not all with food, but the first one usually is. If I do manage an afternoon tea while cooking dinner, sometimes the tea is ready right when dinner is, and sometimes I make it early enough to sip while cooking, in which case I'll usually be finished right around the time dinner is. I'm unlikely to have tea after dinnertime, as I don't like risking caffeine-induced insomnia (which hasn't been a problem so far, but I'm not pushing the envelope on this one).

A day when I don't have tea with food is likely one that's on the road - where I have a thermos or two of tea, or I'm at the salon with my boyfriend.

Today, Snowbud all day at work, then some Caramel Delight shared with the boyfriend while we ate dinner.