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 Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:10 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:11 pm
Table 'o Contents and Commandments
Title
ToC Rules
Teas Tried
Teas to Try
Custom Tea Budy Profile
Tea Buddy Profile
How Tea
Why Tea
Equipment
Gallery
Tea Story
Tea Drinker
Journals
Credits
I Do not steal or take anything from this journal
II Nothing in here is for sale
III Feel free to post here, but be nice ^_^
IV My tea buddies would gladly RP, PM me to set things up!
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:17 pm
Teas I've Tried
Black Teas
Orange Pekoe - The 'default' tea of choice, preferably Tetley brand, teabag. Milk and sugar included
Strawberry - Delicious, especially with cream (or milk) and sugar. Tetley brand teabag.
Caramel Twist - Sweet and very caramelly. Very good with milk and sugar. Tetly brand teabag.
Earl Grey - Strong is best, with milk, sugar and honey. teabag.
Irish Breakfast - Almost a favourite, strong and lots of taste. teabag.
Lady Grey - Lighter than Earl Grey and wth a slightly different flavour. teabag.
French Vanilla - So very good, and a wonderful smell. Milk and sugar and honey makes it a good cure for a sweet-tooth. Tetley brand teabag.
Caramel – More taste than the Tetley brand, fuller. With milk and sugar. Looseleaf.
Blueberry – Delicious, more than a hint of blueberry taste. Milk and sugar…think cream and honey would go well too. Looseleaf
Peach - not bad at all, I'll have to try it again to form an opinion. Tried without milk but with sugar, looseleaf.
Green Tea - Not a favourite with Tetly's teabag form, would prefer a non-teabag version. Japanese restaurants have the best. Nothing in it unless it's the Tetley brand, which needs at least a bit of milk.
Herbal
Chamomile - Very light taste, sometimes with milk sometimes without. Tetley brand teabag.
Egyptian Chamomile - Somewhat different from the above. Had it with honey, sugar, and a very very tiny amount of milk. Looseleaf. Made me tired.
Peppermint - Not bad, better when you're sick. Ok on its own, a bit of milk and honey preferred. teabag.
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:22 pm
Teas To Try Catnip - looseleaf Belgian Chocolate - looseleaf Rooibos - teabag Rose - either or
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:24 pm
Custom Tea Buddy profile (Funds ready. Stalking of custom spots in progress. Stage 2 will be mine *wiggle*) Tea:Name:DOB:Personality:Quote:Funds: COMPLETE
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:26 pm
Tea Buddy Profile (Ideally this will one day be filled with a tea buddy that I will somehow aquire through much sacrifice and drinking) Tea:Name:DOB:Personality:Quote:
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:32 pm
How Tea? Possibly weird in the tea circles, I have a habit of adding milk and sugar to everything. I'm rarely a fan of tea on its own, but a bit of milk and two spoons of sugar will have me drinking down any cup. If I have any around I'll usually add honey to my tea as well.
For a bit of a kick I reccomend trying a cup of tealua. It's a creation that I haven't heard of outside my own weird imagination (and teacup) but it's delicious.
Make a cup of tea (your choice, usually orange pekoe for me)
Add milk and sugar to taste (I've never tried this without milk and sugar, feel free to experiment!)
Add in a shot of good-quality kahlua (or two shots if you have a big teacup or like more of a kick! )
Bravo! Tealua~! It's delicious and not overly alcoholic in taste. It smells heavenly though and helps to warm you up.
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:33 pm
Why Tea? As a university student it's pretty much accepted that I will be a drunken lush, easy with my alcohol and my body.
I refuse society’s' attempts to marginalize me! I drink rarely, despise bars, and am generally not a fan of humans (as my roommate can attest). Drugs, sex, and alcohol being removed from my life leaves me with few habits left to adopt, and everyone knows all people must have habits. Furthermore I am an aspiring writer. This means doubly so that while I am whiling away time shoving my creativity out my ears (or other orifices depending on the muse's presence that day) I am supposed to be partaking in a typically writerly quirk. Many writers (while hosting a slew of mental disorders) smoke like a chimney and drink enough coffee to choke a third world child. I happen to hate smokers simply because I can't stand the smoke (I get all teary and red and altogether unattractive).
So if I'm not to drink, shoot up, smoke or have frequent and kinky encounters I am severally limited in my writerly and student quirks.
But alas, caffeine remains acceptable. Coffee and I, however, don't get along. We get jittery and have to pee 24/7, which hampers the writing aspect. Alas, most caffeinated energy drinks are carbonated...and being supremely difficult from birth I have never enjoyed the feeling of bubbles burning my tongue, so RedBull and Bawls and whatnot are out of the question.
This leaves the refined, but nevertheless typically caffeinated drink of tea. It is healthy (usually), warm (unless I've forgotten about it), and refined (all those British people and their tea parties). It still manages to keep me awake and while I remain an acquaintance of the bathroom every few cups, it doesn't race through like a thoroughbred at the Derby.
And so tea has become my habit
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:35 pm
Equipment I have several particulars to drinking my tea, and my arsenal is infamous in the household (my poor roommate at least understands my obsessioon with tea, of not the apparatus surrounding it)
Kettle - Pretty self explanatory. It's a simple white kettle (property of roomie) that 'dings' when the water has boiled. It resides atop the fridge.
Teapot - For looseleaf tea, a glass teapot with a stainless steel strainer. Handle and lid are dark purple. Very cute and very good for looseleaf tea.
Looseleaf Cup - a white teacup with a ____ design and an included strainer and top to brew a single cup of looseleaf tea.
Unhappy Cup - a large blue cup, more like a bowl, with an shocked and unhappy face (and nose).
Tea Tankard - Huge tankard-shaped ceramic mug, handmade. Two cups worth.
Cannon Fodder Cups - the cups used when the larger cups are dirty and I'm too lazy to do the dishes. These are mostly black, but there are a few blue or yellow ones. Unremarkable as a whole.
Spoon - several, none special. They're very useful for sugar-measuring and stirring of tea.
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:36 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:39 pm
Tea Story My CatI have two cats, the one really shows no interest in tea, but the other...well.
Blaise is evil. He has always been and likely will always be. This in no way hampers that with his little white toes, white chest and white nose-stripe he is still the cutest little demonmonster ever. I'm not sure whether he has a problem with depth perception, or if he actually intends to do this, but often when I have a cup of tea he'll jump up onto the desk (where he usually proceeds to impede my view of the computer screen) and shove his face into my teacup.
His full face into my brimming cup of tea.
Usually he then retreats, looks at me with surprise (and contempt) and proceeds to clean his face off. Then drinks a few mouthfuls, then wanders off.
I'm not sure if this is a feline facial, or just his efforts to introduce cat hair into all aspects of my life...including my diet. Nevertheless, it's a hilarious but accepted habit.
I can only imagine his response when I get catnip tea.
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:42 pm
Tea Drinker? About me?
Well, I'm 20 and Canadian, also a university student and owner of two cats (and two more cats and two dogs that claim 'family pet' status but really love me the most). I aspire to be famous (or infamous as the case may be) whether it's through writing, riches, or what have you. Irish blood gives me red hair, changing eyes, and a horrible temper.
For now? That is all *wiggles fingers*
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:43 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:43 pm
Credits
All work is the property of its original creators.
Pithy Twigs Tea Society and its art are (c) Potato Lord and Toast King Tzu
Writing contained in this journal is (c) Me
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