Cuppageek Advent Day 11
Wake up was much better this morning, without the “rock on chest” feeling.
I did ruminate over the breakfast menu a bit, not really wanting sweet today but savory, but my husband is coming home early from work and we plan to have outside gong fu after lunch (it is supposed to be 68F which is 20C!!!), so I don’t need a big breakfast since I will be having an actual lunch instead of splitting a bag of broccoli with Sam.
I quickly settled on cheese toast with mustard and stood on tiptoe to get my tea.
Well, well, well! Starting the day with a Spiced Hot Toddy! I don’t think I have ever had a hot toddy. It sounds good, though!
This was great with my cheese toast and mustard. Serendipity! A floral tea would not have been a good pairing, but this is perfect.
The spices are right up my alley. How to describe it since I have never had a toddy? It is more like a mulled cider than a chai. There is fruitiness and nice, warming spices that never threaten to get hot. There is a tart tingle on the tongue from apple and hibiscus, but for all us hibby haters I will want to add that it is so light it could easily have been green apple and not hibby, but I had looked at the ingredients. The lemongrass contributes to the tart fruit vibe.
I enjoyed my second cup sprawled on the sofa listening to gmathis’ music recommendation from my yesterday’s tasting note and watching the bunnies play through the bow window.
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You got a great weather to enjoy gongfu session outside. Here snows, but it melts right away.
Loved this one.
ashmanra I sort of envy your weather, but by the same token, I love the 4 seasons here at home. We had snow flurries this week and even though nothing stuck, it was grand to see those flakes swirling down from the sky!
Hot toddies (in my bartending experience) in the classic sense generally are made of whiskey, hot water, honey and lemon. They are both comforting and potent and good to quaff right before a nap or at bedtime. Yours sounds like a treat that won’t interfere with ones ability to be productive-or to drive!
They’re making a little noise about some weekend snow here—my favorite kind if it does fly; the ground is too warm for it to mess up the roads, but it’ll lie nicely on tree branches and grass.
White Antlers – I just went out to do some yard work and it was still only 55. Our weather is so volatile – it might be 75 degrees in winter and 36 hours later it is 29 and ice is falling. (Rare) We will have snow on the ground in shady places and yet the high will be warm enough for short sleeves, it really is all over the place. We had a few cold days, so I am longing for open air gong fu and we are going to try a propane stove this time to heat our water. We usually run an extension cord and take the kettle out.
Gmathis – I wonder if it will head our way in a few days? I hooe you get just the dusting you want!
White Antlers: i understand loving the rhythm of the seasons! I need to warn Martin that if he visits the South in winter, he may experience all four seasons in the space of three days or less! I am near the coastal plain, but in the mountains they do have lovely fall color and much more snow than here.
ashmanra Isn’t our idea of ‘winter’ interesting? I lived in the SF Bay area for 23 years. What I considered coastal winter weather happened there in the summer. It was sometimes laughable but often heartbreaking to see tourists freezing at the cable car stops in July or August, wearing shorts, flip flops and thin t-shirts as the fog and brutal wind tore at them. The last Christmas I spent there, in 2014, it was in the 90s and I was outside on Christmas morning, barfoot and in cotton pajamas, filling the bird feeders. Today is in the 50s, warm for December in the Northeast, but the night temperatures are going down to freezing, so at least I can bundle up happily for evening walks.
ashmanra: If I just knew when I want to come :D — summers are too hot, winter — everything possible, autumn — rains, spring maybe?
Autumn for the Ozarks! (Of course, that entails only about six perfect days the entire season, and never in a row.)
Martin: Spring for sure! It’s the greatest!
You got a great weather to enjoy gongfu session outside. Here snows, but it melts right away.
Loved this one.
ashmanra I sort of envy your weather, but by the same token, I love the 4 seasons here at home. We had snow flurries this week and even though nothing stuck, it was grand to see those flakes swirling down from the sky!
Hot toddies (in my bartending experience) in the classic sense generally are made of whiskey, hot water, honey and lemon. They are both comforting and potent and good to quaff right before a nap or at bedtime. Yours sounds like a treat that won’t interfere with ones ability to be productive-or to drive!
They’re making a little noise about some weekend snow here—my favorite kind if it does fly; the ground is too warm for it to mess up the roads, but it’ll lie nicely on tree branches and grass.
White Antlers – I just went out to do some yard work and it was still only 55. Our weather is so volatile – it might be 75 degrees in winter and 36 hours later it is 29 and ice is falling. (Rare) We will have snow on the ground in shady places and yet the high will be warm enough for short sleeves, it really is all over the place. We had a few cold days, so I am longing for open air gong fu and we are going to try a propane stove this time to heat our water. We usually run an extension cord and take the kettle out.
Gmathis – I wonder if it will head our way in a few days? I hooe you get just the dusting you want!
White Antlers: i understand loving the rhythm of the seasons! I need to warn Martin that if he visits the South in winter, he may experience all four seasons in the space of three days or less! I am near the coastal plain, but in the mountains they do have lovely fall color and much more snow than here.
ashmanra Isn’t our idea of ‘winter’ interesting? I lived in the SF Bay area for 23 years. What I considered coastal winter weather happened there in the summer. It was sometimes laughable but often heartbreaking to see tourists freezing at the cable car stops in July or August, wearing shorts, flip flops and thin t-shirts as the fog and brutal wind tore at them. The last Christmas I spent there, in 2014, it was in the 90s and I was outside on Christmas morning, barfoot and in cotton pajamas, filling the bird feeders. Today is in the 50s, warm for December in the Northeast, but the night temperatures are going down to freezing, so at least I can bundle up happily for evening walks.
ashmanra: If I just knew when I want to come :D — summers are too hot, winter — everything possible, autumn — rains, spring maybe?
Autumn for the Ozarks! (Of course, that entails only about six perfect days the entire season, and never in a row.)
Martin: Spring for sure! It’s the greatest!