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Mixed muesli with pu-erh tea

I had all of this for breakfast….

Well, a mixed muesli of all this stuff.

I put in one spoonful each of:

  • oats
  • honey granola
  • chia seeds
  • flax meal
  • desiccated coconut
  • toasted buckwheat
  • toasted almonds

And then sprinkled on a few pistachios, gojis, and golden raisins. This is what it looks like dry…

And after sitting in almond milk for a minute…

It continues to thicken up until it gets to the texture of runny oatmeal.  I had it with a cup of my new favorite tea ever, a pu-erh

I have been wary to try this kind of tea for a while because I’ve heard people describe it as tasting like dirt, or having barnyard aromas.  Ew.  But Jeff thought I might enjoy it because he knows I like deep, oaky, woody flavored teas.  Wow, I loved it.  And I didn’t get a dirt flavor at all, it was kind of like the aftertaste you get from coffee- not sour, just the way the roasted aroma hangs in your mouth and in the back of your throat.  And the smell!  It smells like leather, or like horses.  Like hay and the way the ground smells before it rains.  Divine, I tell you.

THIS GUY was sitting on the floor directly behind me while I ate breakfast.  He is my biggest fan.  This cat frikkin’ loves me.  Isn’t it ridiculous how he lays on the floor with his hind legs all splayed out the back?  He is so weird.

Time to get some housework done and head to the grocery, get all the not fun stuff out of the way so we can enjoy the weekend.

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Dinner for 1 and tea talk

The husband has been of town at a programming conference for a few days, so I took advantage of the situation by refusing to cook anything until he got back.  Don’t get me wrong, I love to cook… just not every single night.  Also, by not cooking I was forcing myself to eat a lot more salads and raw veggies.  Good, right?   I made a meal out of roasted red pepper hummus, baba ganoush, quinoa and chickpea salad, fresh raspberries, all with carrots and pita chips for dipping.

(Carrots not shown. I promise they existed.)

I enjoyed it all with one of these:

A tasty brewed oolong.  I had never tried this brand before, but after I took it home I realized something interesting about it: it is made by Adagio Teas, a company my husband and I have ordered loose tea from for awhile now and really enjoy.

If you continue reading this blog for any length of time you will learn just how much my husband loves tea.  He knows the exact temperatures and brewing times for every kind of tea you can imagine.  He loves the ritual and precision of brewing and re-brewing a perfect cup.  He has several teapots, but not the kind your granny has- these are the kind made by hand in China from a very specific type of clay.  All this is to say, the man loves tea.

Anyway, I was happy to discover that I’d unknowingly supported a company that I already love and want to succeed.  If you love tea even one tenth as much as my husband does, give them a try, we’ve always gotten really fantastic stuff from them every time.