Fujian Black Tea

Snort laff!! If Brenden could I’m sure he would teleport us some mushrooms. And a communal Steepster fridge would be awesome!

Hahaha! You know your addicted to tea when??? this dream was hilarious and I wished it was for real! A communal cupboard would also be awesome!

And yes, told you this tea was pure gooey fudgy chocolate goodness :-)

This is the best thing I’ve read, like…ever. :D

This is not the first tea-related dream I have had. The problem is fully developed, I think. I suppose this dream came from my not-so-subliminal desire to eat all the good things TheTeaFairy and MzPriss are always talking about and for Brenden to have the ability to teleport things, which I think I can safely say would improve all of our lives. Thanks for the dream mushrooms, Brenden :-). And yes, a communal Steepster cupboard would be completely clutch!

Haha that’s hilarious! XD

Oh cool! A shared Steepster cupboard! Wouldn’t that be fun?!?! Although, with as much swapping as happens around here, we may not be too far from that :)

I’m sorry for your epic pancake fail but this made me laugh so hard!

Pancakes with no leavening…? How bizarre. Imagining the clinging to George Clooney’s leg… Priceless. :)

The recipe ingredients:

1 1/2 cups fine or medium cornmeal
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk, or more as needed
2 tablespoons vegetable or olive oil, plus more for frying
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup pine nuts
Honey, for serving

The recipe: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/dining/19minirex2.html

oh god, i’m so hungry…. this sounds soo good.

@Sil – it does until you try to MAKE it. I still kind of have a heart ful of hate for ol Mark Bittman at the moment. I wanted pancakes

LOL we love bittman – have 3 cookbooks in our kitchen haha

I do too! Who would have thought he would try to pass off fried polenta as pancakes????

I got one of those skillets, over 100 now belonged to my great grandmother. And I miss her so and how she taught me to cook.

How did I ever miss this note this moning? Omg my spleen hurts that how much I laughed!
(Being attached to George Clooney’s leg brings all kind of images…)

And really, homemade cherry compote? Let me book a flight to Texas…

And count me in! I also have my grandma’s cast iron skillet…with a wooden handle. Almost as heavy as I am, but everything tastes better in it!!

Mrmopar, this is so priceless that your grandmother taught you how to cook…how precious that skillet must be.

@mrmopar – I learned to cook from my grandmother and great grandmother as well and I miss them both. My cast iron skillets are priceless to me

@TTF – LOL I’m feeling better about the whole thing now (except for the having to clean my skillet part) but I was grumpy this morning. The cherry compote was easy-peasy, just simmered the cherries and lemon zest and cardamom and some maple down until it thickened up some. I have some left for later.

Poor girl! I hate when something like that happens.
I’m thinking this recipe needs to have eggs in it, or egg replacer. Or ground flax seeds would probably work. Something that would bind things together.
I have one of mark’s books, in my crazy who’s who collection of vegan & vegetarian cookbooks from my 30+ some odd years of non-meat eating. Lately I’ve been feeling really nostalgic about all those tasty grain & bean based dishes, I really miss that stuff.
Side note…I use to love polenta, especially Fried polenta!
Maybe you were suppose to refrigerate the recipe in a loaf pan & slice it before cooking it? :)
At least the cherry compote was good, & thank god for tea!

Well if I had thought it through, I would have realized how it would turn out. I did briefly think about no leavening or egg – but Mark Bittman! They really are polenta cakes and not pancakes – but he calls them pancakes and they look like them in the recipe photo. I’m mostly over it now because I had great tea and I hsve some of the cherry stuff left over

You could spread it on toast (another food I REALLY miss).
Or layer it in a fancy wine glass with coconut whipped cream & other yummy stuff…

It JUST so happens I have some coconut whip and that had occurred to me :)

:)

I ordered a sample of this earlier today and I’m pretty excited about it. :D

feck. i want to place an order…. whines

^ bahahaha :)

Sil, you already know what I think of your pseudo hesitation…we both that you will end up DOING IT!!!

hey… i have not yet succumbed to a Mandala order..i know that i WILL end up doing it…but i’m TRYING for August…

Woot!

I want cherries

Lol, wish I could share them with you…I have to admit these are so good, I just don’t care where they came from!!

We have them in the stores now. I always get some every summer – but I dream of what they would be like if they didn’t travel so far.

yummmmmm! :)

Well I must say the ones I’m having now are pretty darn close of “bing” prefect!!

Did you see the snail pictures mj found to go with the Bi Luo Chun? They are amazing and adoreable!

http://steepster.com/mj1851/posts/252508

This sounds amazing. I want a black cherry tea! But one without artificial flavors. Does that exist?

Tealux does have a black tea with whole cherries and fig pieces in it, but the ingredients list also includes “flavouring” – http://steepster.com/teas/tealux/33776-cherry-fantasy

MzPriss, those snails, OMG!! Did you see the cherry kiss?

Sarsonator, I gave up on finding a good flavoured cherry tea…I really don’t think it exists… I think my version of it this morning is much better :-)

YES @ the cherry kiss! Those pics make me want to have pet snails :D

Lol, pet snails ;-)

Christina, thank you…unfortunately, I have tried that tea and did not like it. Cherry flavoured teas always end up tasting weird for my own personal taste.

I’ll give it a try Christina!

Maybe I can use dried cherries and make my own cherry tea. I like your method, TTF, but I can’t always get fresh cherries here. So I’d like to find something for the winter months, too.

I’m glad you liked the snails MzPriss! I’m a little obsessed with those snail pics. They’re just so stinking cute

Also, I have a samples of this and now I’m going to have to bust it out this morning! Sans cherries though, although I don’t really mind. Cherries are ok, but aren’t a favorite of mine

I’m having this tea next and looking at the snails some more. But :O cherries aren’t a favorite???

I’ll make some now and we can be tea twins :-). MzPriss, moment of inspiration brought on by madametj’s recent turtle tea pet acquisition: you could get a snail tea pet?
Yeah, I mean I like cherries but berries are more my thing. Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries….mmmm. The best I ever had were in Germany, of all places, last summer

Firm, crunchy cherries are the best kind! <3

Also, fair warning: If you look up the photographer that took those snail pics, he has some other very cute insect pics on his site, but also some total boob pics which I discovered AT WORK. Total panic! I haven’t been fired yet though. Such a weird combination of subjects

I pretty much love all things cherry, and I’ve found a few that are pretty good (obviously have different tastes than TTF) – this is my favorite cherry tisane, but it’s showing out of stock. :((
http://www.nmteaco.com/Pondi-Cherry_p_404.html

LOL @ boob pics with the adorable snails

Oh man, I wish I had some cherries now! And those snails are the cutest thing! It’s like he has permission to go to fairyland and take photos!

That is exactly right – they look like snails in fairyland!

Skulleigh, that’s EXACTLY what fairyland looks like!!!

Lol, beer snobbery!
I’ll make sure to add this one to my next order…yum.

Yeah, I just ordered 2 ounces… ;)

Beer snobbery has a way of rubbing off. I caught that, too. It’s always a great sign when the husband also says it’s a good tea.

Sounds so delicious!

In our house it’s whisky, primarily, rubbing off. Beer to a smaller degree. (I really don’t like the word ‘snobbery’ as a way to describe interest) I don’t like either of those things, but I’ve taken to having a sniff when Husband has a dram. I can definitely tell a difference in how they smell. Some are sweet and others are more alcohol-y.

I’m a whisky “snob” too. And yes, I love to suit and just take in the aroma before I drink. I love a good single malt scotch, or bourbon, or Irish….yeah, I love whisky.

Noooooo. I hope I don’t get smoke. :/

Smoke? Really? Hmm…I haven’t tasted or ever heard of anyone getting smoke from this…that’s very strange!

courtney… if you do i have a nice toasty seat waiting for the tea at my place lol

My taster is weird about smoke. I get it in all kinds of things that no one else seems to get it in. It is more than likely just me. That’s one of the reasons I follow lots of people – everyone seems to have at least slightly different taste buds, especially when it comes to tea! It may not even be my taster, it may be my sniffer, which is very hypersensitive to smoke of all kinds. So maybe I’m just smelling something that isn’t really there and that is coloring what I taste.

Sil haha! :P

Nicole I also get it in things others don’t. I guess we will have to wait and see. I’m glad it was just a sample for you, at least. :)

Hmm…I do sort of get warm pinewood in this one, but I agree, we all taste different things :)

Yay! So glad it arrived! :) Enjoy!

I ordered this one and the Ailaoshan Black, yay! I can send you some of the Ailaoshan if you like. :)

Oh no!! You must have been so disappointed not to find Ailaoshan…But I think this is a great one, i usually love Fujian blacks. I had the Mint Chocolate Chip yesterday and I think WP uses that same fujian as a base, it was really good and chocolaty.

I was disappointed for sure, but this was delicious so it’s hard to be too disappointed :)

Courtney I definitely wouldn’t mind trying a cup! :)
And by " wouldn’t mind" I mean “would love”

Haha! As soon as it arrives, I’ll send some along.

You’re the best :)

I spent the night with this one yesterday ;-) and i agree, it could easily become a daily favourite for me as well…

:)it is delicious! I just can’t get enough of it for some reason lol

The reason is CHOCOLATE Tommy ;-)

my weakness

Mine also!!

:)

I finally am able to comment. It’s been ages since Steepster would let me logon. My data was screwed up. Brenden has some good stuff coming up soon…Can’t wait!

Aww! Finaly our Bonnie is back ;-)
(myself and MzPriss have early reviewed some of the “good stuff” that’s coming out soon today if your interested to find out !!)

(I meant “sooner” today)

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Tommy – I am enjoying your delicious Fujian Gold combo right this minute and it is divine!

it is delish isnt it :)