So, I actually wanted to make another tea, but all of my teaballs were filled with various different teas that I wanted to resteep later or felt bad tossing out without resteeping a second time, mostly because they were nearly all white teas that I either had very little left of or that I knew I could get a good second steep from.
So, even though this has been sitting on my counter for at least a day I figured I’d give it another steep because I didn’t want to waste the leaf since I only have about a cups worth left. Tre chipped in too and let me make a second steeping of Cantaloupe and Cream (from the leaf I used this morning) for him, which freed up a second tea ball. Both were brewed the same ways I used the first time around, but with slightly longer steep times.
I’m drinking this while greedily scarfing down some rye bread basically slathered with creamy spinach dip. There’s actually a kind of funny story to that, too. When I got off from work and I could think about was Safeway Deli’s creamy spinach dip so I stopped by the Safeway in my mall and picked up a tub of it. However, when I was going through check out I felt highly judged by the sales clerk for only buying spinach dip so I panicked and blurted out “it’s for my highly pregnant roommate”.
For those who don’t know, my roommate is definitely not fit to be a parent. Also, he happens to be, well, a he. So, when I got home today with my spinach dip I broke the (rather shocking) news to Tre that he was with child. He took it better than expected ;P
Anyway, I think this pairs nicely with the spinach dipped bread (dear lord, I’m on pieces number six – I really need to stop, especially since Tre ordered Thai food and got a vegetarian stir fry for me). The tea itself holds up extraordinarily well for the second steep and tastes almost exactly as flavourful which makes me happy I didn’t just toss the leaf. It’s less “gummy” in taste today, though. Really, it’s more like a strawberry preserve or jam. So, slightly more natural tasting.
Haha…I hope you told your roommate what you told the cashier…