@Kaylotta Colombian coffee is delicious. When we were there for summer vacation, mom and I were basically camped on Juan Valdez café whenever the sun was too high; we bought home 1kg of each of their origen and premium selections, and sierra nevada and huila are some of the best coffees i've ever tasted. if this is their chain-store quality, i cant even imagine how good their gourmet-y stuff is.
Okay, so I've got some chicken thawing and then marinating in garlic, a decent pu erh, a little lime, a little vegetable oil, and some water. So I guess we'll see how that works. Green teas seem to be used more with fish, but the chicken's a little more robust so I want to see how it works with an earthier tea. Will post results if it ends up at all edible.
:O yes please do! Most of what I see using teas or coffees as food ingredients is for deserts, but it seems like they'd have some good potential for savory applications too!
Yeah, I'm excited about trying it in a savory thing! I've tried it as jello and jelly and part of topping for cheesecake (https://measuringisforjerks.wordpress.com/tag/tea/), but having options in addition to dessert would be really interesting.
oh that sounds really neat! i remember seeing a recipe for a lapsang souchong-rubbed salmon once, but it still never occurred to me to think about other non-green tea recipes.
I've done Jamaican Jerk chicken with ground coffee mixed into the rub. Husband and I were "meh" on it but our guests begged for the recipe?
MY TEACHER IS BRINGING TEA ON THURSDAY TO ARABIC CLASS. SHAI MA3 NA3NA3 WA SUKR OMG YES. I often like my teas just straight. Nothing in them. But I cannot resist black tea with mint and sugar. If I had an electric kettle I would bring in tea of my own to share with the class. But I do not have one. I'd really love to make masala chai for the class but there isn't really a good way to do that in class. Though it could be done for a special party type thing maybe if I found a way to heat a pot. That is not likely sadly. This pains me because I take pride in my masala chai. Even if it is not that good it is MINE.
ooh subscrbing to this thread! i have a particular method for making iced tea, i guess you could call it 'warm brew' -- i put the loose leaves in a coffee strainer over the pitcher, and run warm tap water through them. not scalding, just about hot-shower warm. then i leave the strainer in with the water up to the level of the leaves, maybe half an hour? not overnight like with cold brew. seems to give a fuller flavor than cold brew, but with less acids/tannins than hot brewing. i've been experimenting with blends of loose teas; i've discovered a number of things, both happy and sad. among the sad: yerba mate overwhelms light flavors like green/peach, and you end up with a whole gallon of beautiful golden brown tea that tastes like damp tree bark. among the happy: i was given some 'sunny fruits pu erh' from lupicia as a gift, and it goes with EVERYTHING. even yerba mate. though i like it best blended about half and half with assam.
I would try that, only I live in a 100+ year old house and you aren't supposed to use water hot/warm from the taps in older houses. If you got lead pipes the hot water will soften the lead and definitely stripe away bits of it to deposit in your drink/food. Very suck. I may be able to get away with microwaving for only a minute or so and pouring over loose leaf. How warm would you say your water comes out of the tap when you do that?
ok help me out guys, i want to buy loose leaf tea in non-tiny quantities via the internet, and i would like it to not cost the moon, i'm not on a tight budget i just don't want to pay double for hipster cred or something. i probably want some light, fresh green or white, maybe with ginger, and some assam or pu erh, and some earl gray maybe, and i also want to get kind of a buttload of matcha. where should i order from? i'm froze the hell up from too many options.
David's Tea is about the price of Good Quality Grocery Store Tea and you get discounts for ordering in bulk. Also a free (good quality!) tea tin that holds 5oz if you order 5oz or more. Flavored matcha runs about $9/oz and there's a few grades of pure matcha for $15-20/oz
why is flavored matcha so much cheaper, do you suppose? edit: oh, it looks like it's mixed with sugar. do not want.
@jacktrash - I'd strongly recommend Life in Teacup for quality's sake: they don't sell quite as large quantities of tea as some stores, but the grand majority of their teas can be infused more than once (I think I once got 12 infusions out of a spoon of oolong leaves), and they have a serious selection of pu-erh. Kinda pricey for some teas, but worth it in my experience. Looking at the amounts that David's Tea sells, Republic of Tea has similar amounts and prices, and they have flavoured options (Life in Teacup doesn't do any flavoured teas, just straight). I'd be a bit wary of their pu-erh, though, since the only one they sell is not a cake. Their matcha is a little pricier. Those are the two dealers I've worked with the most, and been really happy with - they're not as cheap as grocery store tea, but I've always been happy with the quality (and the quantity for the price). My two cents. :)
As someone who's had David's Tea's ceremonial matcha (Just a cup, since a cup of anything off their shelf is the same price), it is so worth it. But yeah echoing David's in general. Not that I'm. . . biased or anything. #I totally don't have over 80 of their blends #What are you talking about
oh yeah I should mention that I have also bought David's Tea and it's been really good :D i'd definitely splurge there on their flavoured blends. tas-ty.
Update from the OP: David's Tea Serenity Now is like getting thwapped in the face with a sock full of lavender. The strawberry and rosehips don't show through as much as I'd hoped. Whoops nope, there it is. Pretty good.
I got http://www.svtea.com/ from reading some serious eats articles and their prices seem reasonable. Haven't ordered anything yet so I can't speak to quality, but I'm going to try it pretty soon.
