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Daily Dec #3: coffee & me
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wendy asked me how I take my coffee, and the short answer is: tea. :D.I really don’t drink coffee at all—I occasionally go for a good coffee-flavored ice cream to counter-balance some serious chocolate (and I have a recipe for a Baked Alaska using coffee ice cream for which I’m trying to find a suitable occasion) but I usually don't even like mocha candy.
Tea, on the other hand, is a big thing around my house. I have one of those over-the-door shoe organizers (with the clear plastic pockets, right?) on my pantry door and that’s where all my little boxes of tea live in the kitchen. I usually do Earl Grey in the morning (no milk, just a bit of lemon, which is all kinds of wrong, I know, but I like what I like) and I’ll end the day with something herbal (and decaf!), usually a Lemon/Red Zinger or a Peppermint (chamomile makes me feel like I’m drinking the proverbial ‘hot leaf juice’ and let’s just not talk about green tea at all.) If I’m feeling bored (or if the boys have used up the last of my EG), I have some jasmine tea to mix things up a bit. I used to do the fancy blends from Teavana, etc, but in one of our ever-present reorganizations at the office, I ended up on the same team as two fabulous Indian women who have shared with me with their own custom chai blends (I think their mothers make them up in bulk) and so I will do at least one chai latte every afternoon. My go-to Starbucks order is an iced passion tea if the weather is hot, or I’ll do the seasonal syrup in a hot chai (er, not the peppermint stuff—that goes in hot chocolate, but the gingerbread syrup is pretty tasty in their chai.)
So, yeah, tl;dr: How I take my coffee is TEA. ♥
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Hee! :)
I do drink coffee, for the caffeine boost, but I don't enjoy it, and my hot drink of choice is definitely tea as well.
Earl Grey in the morning (no milk, sugar, or lemon; I associate sweet stuff in my tea with being sick, 'cos tea with honey for a sore throat or strong tea with sugar for an upset stomach were things I grew up with); occasionally, if I'm in England or using tea as a coffee substitute, I'll put milk/cream in it, but that's about it.
I also end the day with herbal tea (Tension Tamer or Bedtime Tea or something like that; chamomile by itself is boring, but I do like it in more interesting blends).
And chai latte is my Starbucks drink of choice (though I've never tried any flavored variety, hmm....) I also used to really like the Tully's tea lattes, back when we had one around here.
Shoe organizer to store tea is a neat idea! We have 2-3 shelves taken up by tea boxes, and it's hard to access the ones in the back, as well as taking up a lot of room... I need to figure out if we have a place to hang a shoe organizer, 'cos I really like that approach!
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I do, as well, and have noticed that when I begin craving hot sweet tea (I usually drink all my things "black", not being a liker of sweet thing), it's a pretty good indicator that I'm coming down with something and will be popping symptoms in the next day or two. So I don't know if it is in fact something my body needs that makes me crave it, or a regression to childhood sick-time comfort-drink of strong tea and sugar as a childhood thing (and dipping graham crackers in to it!)
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My 'pantry' is a tiny section of the laundry room that got walled off and had a regular door installed and there's just enough room between the shelves and the door jamb for small things to fit. I keep the everyday cloth napkins tucked into some of the slots, but 80 percent of it is tea. I use those over-the-door hangers everywhere--never for shoes, though! The front hall closet has one with gloves and mittens and dog leashes, and the linen closet has one with all the different color uniform socks from all the sports teams over the years (and BabyBoy's karate belts.)