Daily Dec #3: coffee & me

[topaz119]

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. ♥

Comments

[endeni]

/How I take my coffee is TEA. ♥/ - Eheh, me too. Tea, no sugar, lemon. I don't care if it's not how you're supposed to take it, it's how I like it. ;)
/(chamomile makes me feel like I’m drinking the proverbial ‘hot leaf juice’ and let’s just not talk about green tea at all/ - Totally, someone after my own heart. :D

home blend chai

[jenna_thorn]

I want to work in your office. My guys just come back from China with weird rice candy.

A funny: since our office supplies coffee and hot chocolate in the break rooms but not tea, our Brit (and Aussie and one Canadian) distributors have learned that I have tea at my desk, so they'll come in for meetings and make an excuse to drop by to visit and steal a bag of tea. 8-)

[st_aurafina]

Tea! *hearts it*

[rikes]

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)

Nice! I'm also a tea instead of coffee person. But you seem to have much better dealers. ;)

[pouncer]

Yay tea!

[sperrywink]

I would have to answer coca-cola. I can't stand coffee OR tea. Hot drinks in general are a no-no. *g*

[hamsterwoman]

how I take my coffee, and the short answer is: tea. :D.

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!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_luaineach/]

Shoe organizer is genius!

I also drink much more tea than coffee (tea, daily; coffee, 1-2x a week) and I actually like coffee that much more. I drink a wide variety of both actual teas and herbal "teas", but usually start my day with earl grey or one of the "breakfast tea" blends (english, irish), I drink oolong, green, and/or matcha -- usually iced -- in the afternoon, and then also have some sort of "calming" blend in the p.m.

[ancarett]

Tea is the only thing for me, too. I joke that I'm a tea refugee from the U.S. to Canada because I got tired of restaurants there doing it wrong.

[msktrnanny.livejournal.com]

Wow. I had you firmly in Camp Coffee! The shoe organizer thing is brilliant! Wish my tea stash was small enough to steal the idea. It's a sickness, I tell you.

Have you done tea at Grand Floridian? One of my very favorite quiet spots at Disney.