Ahhh i fucking love ALL TEA. I bought a really good one recently from a fancy tea shop in SF, it was a
Chinese Milk Oolong, and it's whole tea leaves shriveled up into small black balls of aromatic heaven. The tea is really light in color, very subtle in flavor, and absolutely divine. You re-use the tea leaves a couple times and usually by the third steep you've got flavor perfection. Love that one, it's almost gone.
I drink tea pretty much all day long. I'll start every single morning off with 2 cups of a nice
english breakfast tea with some local honey and a splash of almond milk. Then I will have a cup of
green tea (sometimes jasmine). I like to have herbal teas in the afternoon so I'm not having caffeine all day long. I like
red rooibos and ginger.
At night I usually have
Pukka night time tea, which has valerian, oat flower, lavender, chamomile, and licorice root. It's simply divine with a little bit of honey. It relaxes me so much before bed.
After dinner, I have started making a pot of
licorice root and anise seed tea for digestion. It helps coat the digestive tract (I have a fucked up stomach). It really helps soothe my stomach and it tastes amazing too. I have a jar of organic licorice root and anise stars, and I grind up the anise stars and mix it all together in a little metal tea pod for steeping.
Catnip tea is also amazing. I started growing catnip for my cat, he absolutely loves fresh catnip. I'll pluck off a flower and some leaves and put it on him and he goes crazy with it. He chews on it, rubs his face in it, plays with it. So I started reading up on catnip and apparently it makes a great tea for humans. I tried it with a little bit of lemon verbena in it, holy shit that stuff tasted amazing. It's got a kind of grassy, herby taste to it. If you mix it with lemon it just blends really nicely and makes a great tea.
Another tea I like is
rose geranium. We have a plant growing out back and I just pluck off a few of the leaves, stick it in a pot with hot water and maybe some lemon for added flavor. OmG, its ssoooo good. It's a really light tasting tea.
Shit I could go on and on about tea. I love it all.
