Parker's Evening Blend

March Scavenger Hunt Prompt #5 – a sleepytime tea

I am actually drinking this packaged as Draught of Peace, but it is the same tea. I can’t believe it doesn’t even have a listing because I have had several pouches of it and could have sworn I reviewed it before.

Basically, the cuppageek caffeine free blends were just about the only such blends that I consider to be actually delicious and not just okay. Nichole avoided all the things I avoid in herbals, like stevia and everything single thing being hibiscus based.

This pretty blue tisane is lightly minty with appley chamomile. It is relaxing. I am on my last pouch and I will definitely miss it.

SIPDOWN 98
And not a tea I wrote tasting note before. Mostly because a first steeps I had were mostly chamomile only. And I kind of dislike it. But now, I had the rest in the strainer (approx. 3 tsp used) and decided to brew it as celebration tea. Celebration tea? Well, there is a reason to celebrate… two exams today (one oral) and both passed. Two exams to go and then finals!

But I needed to unwind. Afterall, it was 8 pm when I brewed this tea. Exam was at 6 pm. So late!

But to the tea…
It is chamomile. Luckily with other herbals. The lemongrass is giving it nice flavour other than apple like chamomile. It’s quite floral as well and thus quite nice. I am not sure about honey, but yes, there are sweet notes. I guess it is actually nice blend. And unwinding for sure… and hopefully I will sleep better than last few days as well.

Won’t rate, as apparently biased of chamomile. And even no idea how to rate it. It’s very nice though. And moreover for a good cause!

After two days of too much good food and too little physical exertion, I was feeling a little like an overstuffed piece of furniture last night. Needed a nightcap that would help with the bloated, bloodgie feeling. This did the trick.

This little herbal blend is lovely on the eyes—blue like my beat-up flannel bathrobe, a titch minty to soothe the stomach, whole chamomile flowers, and a little honey to soften it and distinguish it from other nighttime blends. Normally and unfortunately, chamomile doesn’t have much of a sedative effect on me, but I slept better and woke up lighter and brighter…so the tea was at least part of the cure.

A little history:

Nearly twenty years ago I was a cake decorator. I also worked a seasonal job in a bakery during one fall semester of university. I hate baking. I love when other people bake for me. Not tonight.

Something stirred within me and I’m baking a damned lemon poundcake. It’s maybe 5 minutes from being transferred to a cooling rack. I got a little wild and made a lavender-lemon-Parker’s Evening Blend glaze. I really wanted to utilize the blue dyeing property of the butterfly pea flower and then remembered reading that lemon juice changes the blue to some other color. So my glaze is a light pink. Which probably won’t show up against the golden brown of the poundcake but daaaamn is that glaze delicious.

I can’t wait. It’s like 930 pm and I’m so stoked for this.