Yay! My family is here and we’re celebrating Christmas! Although, the “not yay” part is that my mom is being really bitter about her recent break up with ‘he who shall not be named’ – and I literally mean he shall not be named, I’ve been forbidden from even saying his name. Anyway, lots of yummy baking and such.
As part of our Christmas traditions, we all opened a present early on “Christmas Eve”. For me, that meant I got 50g of DAVIDsTEA’s Jessie’s Tea and 50g of DAVIDsTEA’s Guava Cadabra! I was only expecting to get one kind of tea, so I’m definitely a happy camper!
Also, my brother leaked to me that my Dad (who I wont see until January) picked up the DAVIDsTEA Christmas sampler pack for me, which I SPECIFICALLY said not to do because I already own more than half of the teas in it (in large quantity – 100g of Gingerbread and 190g of Choconut Oolong because Tre bought me 50g of that for Christmas too – and I already had 140g of it), and the third is one I don’t enjoy at all. I’m actually kind of pissed off about it, honestly, because the last time I saw him in person was the day before the Christmas teas came out and I made a BIG deal of telling him I was going to be buying them to try for myself, and the last time we talked on the phone he asked what I wanted for Christmas and I mentioned that if he was even thinking of getting me tea I had already sent a list of blends I wanted but did not have to my mom and he could check with her. Otherwise, I DID NOT want him to pick something out because it was too risky because I have so many DAVIDsTEA blends and he has no idea of knowing what I do and don’t have. He didn’t listen at all.
So, I’m basically begging my brother to convince him to return it. Maybe it makes me an awful person, but I don’t think I can even fake being happy about receiving it. I told him to tell Dad whatever he needed to in order to make that gift go away, be it that someone else already gave the exact same thing to me (he could say that was the present Tre bought me – he’d never know any better) or that he saw my collection and I own everything already (not a total lie). I was very specific about receiving tea this year, so whatever it takes…
Anyway, on to this one…
I recieved this as a sample from Red Leaf Tea and wasn’t really planning on trying it currently because my mom was supposed to be bringing actual eggnog (but she forgot). However, my mom wanted a Christmas tea to drink and since there was no eggnog in the house I listed this as one of the options (I did not list Butiki’s Creamy Eggnog though because I do not have a lot and I didn’t really feel like sharing it…) and it was the one she picked.
For preparation, I used 1/2 tsp. of matcha in 12 oz. of cold milk, which I then split for the two of us. Honestly, I did a REALLY horrible job of mixing it and it looked quite gross. I could have probably done a better job but my sister was rushing me because she wanted to open her present.
My mom, although surprised it was a cold drink, really enjoyed it though and said it tasted very much like actual eggnog. I have to agree – despite being poorly blended it was very rich and creamy tasting and nice and smooth going down (despite lumps of unblended matcha). I can’t imagine this would be good hot, and I think it might be weird cold shaken in straight water so I’ll likely be finishing the rest of my sample in cold milk.
I’m quite pleased with my latest matcha experiences. The first ones I tried where just awful (cold shaken black cherry and unflavoured matchaccino mixed into milk), but this one and orange matcha cold shaken and as tea soda were a definite improvement. Enough so to keep me from flat out righting off matcha altogether!
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I definitely have liked most of the matchas I tried best when mixed in a cold glass of milk. Granted most of the ones I have tasted so far have been creamy/dessert type flavors so that probably makes sense.
Also Merry Christmas (well at least your Christmas)!! It is nice you get to spend it with your family. I lucked out and actually got to go see my siblings for Hannukah so I know how nice it is to get to see your family around the holidays, especially when you are in a city when you know so few people. Plus, I got to have an early birthday celebration for my brother (who is actually born on Christmas) since I will be with my mother in Florida and won’t be seeing him then.
Lastly, I hope your brother is able to convince your Dad to return the gift. I am sure he would want to get you something you actually want so perhaps your brother could drop the hint that he recalled you saying something about not wanting that gift set when he talked to you about the holidays or something like that. Your present from your mom sounds nice though (although I am bias because I love Jessie’s Tea)
*WHERE you know so few people
My Mom’s birthday is Christmas Eve, and so is one of my Aunt’s – they’re not twins however (11 years age difference). That’s awesome you got to spend Hannukah with your family! I don’t usually miss mine too much (not very close to any of them, though this is the family I’m closer to and have missed the most), but I know some people are the opposite way (like my friend Robyn who goes down to seem her family for several days at least once a month).
He’s going to try to convince my Dad to bring it back, though my Dad is a very stubborn person and (like noted) he doesn’t listen well to others. I have a very oddly cold relationship with my father, though. Oddly in that I can’t stand him, though he ‘tries very hard’ to connect with me. A huge part of it is that he’s very blatantly homophobic (and I am not straight) and racist towards, specifically, Aboriginal people – and quite religiously intolerant (very right wing, fundamentalist, Evangelical Christian). In regard to the ‘right wing’ point, I am very much so liberally minded with a few socialist beliefs. So, those are a lot of HUGE points upon which we disagree about which can cause some turmoil. Plus there’s the fact that he really seems to know very little about me – including that I’m highly allergic to mushrooms (there are other reasons out relationship is estranged as well, but I wont get into it).
Long story short, I don’t really suspect anything will be done about it. It’s just frustrating because I was EXPLICITLY clear about it and he either wasn’t paying attention or chose to ignore me. I’ll just wind up with a ton of tea I don’t want…
Thank you for the holiday wishes, though!
you could return/exchange it maybe?
Merry Christmas!
Once, I returned a sampler because I got 2 of the same ones. I didn’t have a receipt but they still did it for me. You could try to exchange it maybe.
I definitely have liked most of the matchas I tried best when mixed in a cold glass of milk. Granted most of the ones I have tasted so far have been creamy/dessert type flavors so that probably makes sense.
Also Merry Christmas (well at least your Christmas)!! It is nice you get to spend it with your family. I lucked out and actually got to go see my siblings for Hannukah so I know how nice it is to get to see your family around the holidays, especially when you are in a city when you know so few people. Plus, I got to have an early birthday celebration for my brother (who is actually born on Christmas) since I will be with my mother in Florida and won’t be seeing him then.
Lastly, I hope your brother is able to convince your Dad to return the gift. I am sure he would want to get you something you actually want so perhaps your brother could drop the hint that he recalled you saying something about not wanting that gift set when he talked to you about the holidays or something like that. Your present from your mom sounds nice though (although I am bias because I love Jessie’s Tea)
*WHERE you know so few people
My Mom’s birthday is Christmas Eve, and so is one of my Aunt’s – they’re not twins however (11 years age difference). That’s awesome you got to spend Hannukah with your family! I don’t usually miss mine too much (not very close to any of them, though this is the family I’m closer to and have missed the most), but I know some people are the opposite way (like my friend Robyn who goes down to seem her family for several days at least once a month).
He’s going to try to convince my Dad to bring it back, though my Dad is a very stubborn person and (like noted) he doesn’t listen well to others. I have a very oddly cold relationship with my father, though. Oddly in that I can’t stand him, though he ‘tries very hard’ to connect with me. A huge part of it is that he’s very blatantly homophobic (and I am not straight) and racist towards, specifically, Aboriginal people – and quite religiously intolerant (very right wing, fundamentalist, Evangelical Christian). In regard to the ‘right wing’ point, I am very much so liberally minded with a few socialist beliefs. So, those are a lot of HUGE points upon which we disagree about which can cause some turmoil. Plus there’s the fact that he really seems to know very little about me – including that I’m highly allergic to mushrooms (there are other reasons out relationship is estranged as well, but I wont get into it).
Long story short, I don’t really suspect anything will be done about it. It’s just frustrating because I was EXPLICITLY clear about it and he either wasn’t paying attention or chose to ignore me. I’ll just wind up with a ton of tea I don’t want…
Thank you for the holiday wishes, though!
you could return/exchange it maybe?
Merry Christmas!
Once, I returned a sampler because I got 2 of the same ones. I didn’t have a receipt but they still did it for me. You could try to exchange it maybe.