Assam Tea
It’s cold, cold, cold, cold & cold. Did I mention that it’s cold?. It’s too cold to venture out from beneath this big blanket, definitely too cold to go looking for the extension cord I need to plug in the pickle {As the sign in the metals studio I learned in declared: “Pickle is an ACID!”} in its new location off of the kitchen.
It’s too cold to get up and sit at the bench, which is well-placed next to the heater in the living room…except that I don’t control the thermostat to the heater in the living room. Thanks to the excellent wiring in this house, our top floor flat is at the mercy of the tenants in 1 & 2, who apparently have an ample sweater collection, and no inclination to turn up the heat. I need to bribe them somehow.
In the meantime, I’m drinking lots of tea, & enjoying enormous maple bars from:
Top Pot Seattle
Top Pot Donuts, which are not warm, but are so delicious they make me forget that my hands are freezing.
Ideas for keeping warm during the holidays:
Jme Tea, from Williams-Sonoma, in Assam, above, or Passion Fruit Mango…which I might not drink during the winter, but I bet it would mix well with lemonade next July.
Passionfruit and Mango Tea
Ooooo mulling spices. I’m looking forward to December, when I will be curled up on the couch in a pile of satsumas & a gigantic mug of hot cider. This year, we will be making our own mulled cider – a first for me – and I plan to keep it on the stove all winter long.
Btw, have you seen Hello Naomi? Her bio reads “I am a robot programming computer engineer turned baker, cake decorator and party stylist”. I love it.
♥ Momo