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I needed something good to go with my breakfast (bonus picture of my breakfast:
http://www.spo.gs/RetroCamera.html?img=cIip It’s a lemon curd muffin with coconut shavings I made with hardly any sugar and…olive oil! You’d never know – they’re very delicious!) and the Emperor came to mind. It can do no wrong, so I was confident it would pair well with this slightly unusual muffin. Yup, super yummy, and will provide all the good roasty flavor and get up and go I need for the last work day of a very intense week!
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Those muffins look wonderful - easy enough for a kitchen schmo like me to attempt?
Super easy – 2 bowls – that’s it! Here is the recipe:
http://www.bhg.com/recipe/muffins/lemon-curd-muffins/
I made them in a muffin tin and not a popover pan. The muffin directions on on the bottom. I used 1/4 cup sugar since I figured the lemon curd and coconut was already sweet, and they were plenty sweet for breakfast for me w the reduced sugar.
Today I forgot to bring in a spoon to measure my tea…and then I got on a call just as I was pouring my water and couldn’t time the steep…and it’s still excellent :) :) :) Gosh Emperor’s Red, how do you do it?!?!?! :)
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Roasty fruity goodness! I was just typing with ashmanra on PM, and mentioned that I think this latest batch is fruitier than the last. A tangy fruity. I don’t know if it’s a new harvest, or just incredibly fresh, but whatever the reason, it’s sure enjoyable!
I baked chocolate chip muffins for the office, and at first I was sad that I didn’t have enough hands to carry in some milk and sugar for an Indian tea, but y’know, Emperor’s Red is one of those all purpose delicious teas that taste good with sweets, food, and is just perfect when you simply want a cup of tea. It can do no wrong in my book!
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Yesterday I FINALLY got over to Premium Steap to replenish the supply of my darling Emperor’s Red. Of course I had to have some today! Amazing, as usual. Roasty, fruity, tangy, perfect as-is. Broken record alert: “I could have this every day!”
:)
But seriously. If I wanted to make my life very simple at work, I would have this, Harney’s Golden Monkey, Harney’s Queen Catherine, Harney’s Earl Grey Supreme, Harney’s Hot Cinnamon Spice, Teas Etc Rosy Earl Grey for when I need some froof, and a few random samples for a little variety and I’d be done! I really need to work toward that! :) :) :)
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I am drinking my final few leaves of my precious! I have been so dreadfully busy that I haven’t even had time to breathe yet alone go to the tea store, but this calls for an emergency! I am going to schedule AN APPOINTMENT ON MY CALENDAR on pay day (Thursday!) so I can go to Premium Steap and get my roasty friend (and ashmanra! I am going to send some to you!!!! and mrawlins2 – I am going to send your package! I am the worst tea friend when I get crazy like this!! I AM SORRY!)!
Anyway – enough of my psychosis! The tea :) Perfection as usual. Roastyfruity. Chocolateyearthy. So easy to drink. Impossible to oversteep. Love, love, love.
EDIT: I posted a pic on my twitter account of how large and beautiful these leaves are after they are steeped! http://twitter.com/#!/jackiemania
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Under extreme work deadline! My toasty, roasty, tangy friend – #1 ally in helping me Get! Things! Done! Three steeps of deliciousness.
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You need an Everything Bagel – and so do I!
Oh gosh, that would have helped! Our cafe is closed until the students get back and we are bagel-less until tuesday! Desperate times! Is the snow in your area impacting your state of bagel-ness?
I was talking with my husband I think I am going to try and make them this weekend – that long recipe! I’ll let you know how they turn out!
Indeed, most stores were closed for about two days and people are staying in as much as possible. School was out for three days! This area of the south lacks the equipment to deal with icy conditions. But bagels are in my near future…
Hello my roasty, tangy, perfect exactly as-is friend!
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Oooooh my roasty delight! Thank you for helping me with my perspective and patience during Registration (count to ten! Take a sip! count to 10! Take a sip!) Unique but friendly. Very easy to love. Very forgiving. I wish you were a person!
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I was scooping some of this together to send to Jaime and I just HAD to have it after smelling the wonderful leaves. Delicious, delicious, delicious! I never tire of the roasty tangy unique flavor of this one. MmmmmmMMMMMmmmmmmm!!!!!
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Wow – I totally forgot about my tea steeping since I was on a long call with a student – it must have steeped for 10 minutes!!!! I was expecting a horrible bitter mess (much like the student I was speaking with!), but I got a delicious chocolatey roasty rich Happy Accident!!!! Can this tea do no wrong? :) Sheesh! I am going to steep it for at least 5 minutes from now on (and I want to run out and buy 29038290348902384 lbs of it so I never run out!)!
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Horrible bitter mess…a lot of people are like that today, huh? Definitely need to get me some of this tea, since it’s so forgiving!
Yes! …and so young (I work at a college)!
I work for a public school system. They’re starting out young!
Ay! I am in school too to get certified to teach – I started wanting HS but I have since switched to elementary hoping to get em before bitter/jaded. Ya think 5th grade is too old? ;)
I overheard a 4th grade girl lamenting the fact that men aren’t knights in shining armor and that fairy tales are crap because boys aren’t charming. Kid you not.
Fifth graders are my favorite people on the planet. I teach ‘em at church and write curriculum materials for them … they’re old enough that you can communicate to them in adult-level sentences, but the middle school snits haven’t kicked in yet. (And Jaime, chivalry is not yet dead among 11-year-old boys…couple weeks ago, two of mine wouldn’t let me kneel on the floor by our activity table…they brought me a chair and saw that I was properly seated. Coulda hugged both of them!)
Uh oh!
gmathis – have you ever heard of the teacher Rafe Esquith and the Hobart Shakespeareans?
http://www.hobartshakespeareans.org/
He is the person who got me REALLY excited about 5th grade for all the reasons you mentioned! If you haven’t seen the documentary film, omg -
http://www.amazon.com/Hobart-Shakespeareans-Ian-McKellen/dp/B000CRR3GA
I could burst out in happy/sad tears just typing about them!!!
Will check it out! I am absolutely in love with this year’s bunch…actually, I say that every year….
I sent Sandy (in New Zealand) a teaspoon of the first ER you sent to me in our first swap. Did you see that her one cup has made her fall in love with the emperor as well? I told her I would share some of my bounty with her! The Emperor and Catherine are mainstays in my house now!
ashmanra – and I will share my next ER bounty with you :) :) :) I hope to visit Premium Steap in the next week to go on a “YAY 92 on a Hard Test” tea spree :)
So great! You are so smart – of course you made a 92, and that was with one lobe of your brain tied behind your back.
Needed my roasty friend this morning – exhausted (from fun :) great dinner party at friend’s house last night, followed by seeing Richard Thompson at an old, beautiful, small theater from the 1930s – good tired :) :) :) Two steeps of the tangy Emperor was just the thing.
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I took a walk to Premium Steap yesterday to replenish my roasty friend!!!! SO happy to be able to do that you have no idea! I was in a near panic walking to the store – not knowing – since the harvest was so troubled this year – if they would have it! (can you tell I’m rereading David Copperfield and that I totally get a kick out of Mr. Micawber?!!? But I digress!)
Thankfully – the big beautiful silver container was full! Phew! The intoxicating fragrance as the owner scooped the tea almost made me faint! I knew exactly at that moment what today’s morning tea was going to be :)
As usual, it does not disappoint. Smooth, roasty, tangy, heaven.
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Oh, for a GOOD tea store that I could walk to … count that as a serious blessing!
I really, really do :) It is a great pleasure to stroll there and pick out tea, and have some chit chat! I even get dressed up the day I go! I’m so silly!
Are you kidding? That sounds like a vacation to me! Local tea shop of choice is one aisle in a health food store in a strip mall…not much on atmosphere :)
Did I mention TINY aisle, tiny store, and tiny strip mall?
Poor thing! That wouldn’t do it for me, either! Do you ever visit anywhere that has a nice shop? I live the next state over to where I work, and I always worry that when I get another job I will have to plan City Saturdays to get all of the things I’ve grown to love that are only available in the city.
I have to drive almost two hours for truly good tea! But I am sooo thankful for the unbelievably good service from Harney and Sons and I CAN call the distant store and have things shipped, I just haven’t done so yet! But to be able to walk there? Ah, that would be delightful!
I wish we could click “like” a hundred times! Like! Like! Like!
My penultimate teaspoon of leaves! I have to make time to go to the store and get more! Ahh!
Delicious, fruity, lovely, yummy, I could drink it every day tea!!!!
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Gosh I love this tea :) I let it go to five minutes today and boy is it roasty and fruity! I think I was a little too shy with this one. Thanks ashmanra for giving me the idea to be a little gutsier with my steeping parameters!
I am in a slight panic – my 4oz tin is almost gone! Hopefully I can carve out some time for a walk to Premium Steap next week to replenish my stock, and see if they have anything in resembling a decent Yunnan (plus some of that yummy sounding chocolate/mint/rooibos).
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I must confess I have been thinking lustfully of this tea ever since my sample ran out. I think I will have to place an order for it. When you want this one, other teas can seem so…..bland. I understand your panic!
I would be happy to send you some more! I will put it in your super secrut present which is now all ready to go out on Friday :)
Wonderful! I am imagining inhaling the rich, chocolate-y aroma right now – aaaaahhhh!
Gah! If I had noticed that last part in time I would have sent you some of my Tippy Yunnan by Harney and Sons! Maybe I can get it out to you….
Feeling very warmed and comforted by this tea today! It’s rainy, chilly, and MONDAY – boy do I need some roasty :) After reading that ashmanra tried it with a hotter water temp and longer steep, I figured I’d give it a shot! It’s very good – stronger but still very mellow if that makes any sense! Nutty/fruity. I think I will keep it like this for future steeps.
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Just me ’n my roasty friend here, steeping away the morning, and part of the afternoon! I know it must be boring to read me drinking this same tea all the time, but that is the fact of the matter :)
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Not boring at all. Reminds me that I need to try this one if someone enjoys it so much!
Agreed, ashmanra – sometimes it takes seeing something logged five or six times for me to think I should pick up a sample and try it!
I love this one, and the Silk Road Teas Imperial Red. I like the Imperial Red a little better, though, but I can walk a few blocks and pick this up vs having to order the IR on the internet. If you had to order on the internet for either, though, I’d go with the Silk Road Teas Imperial Red – it’s more complex and has more pronounced roasty nut butter flavors. Plus, then, you can also order Dragon Balls! :)
I have been meaning to try some Dragon Balls…
Oh, all right! I’ll order BOTH! Sigh. What’s a tea drinker to do? :)
Oh my gosh, and Silk Road Teas lets you shop by province – I can find Fujian teas without memorizing all the names they go under! I’ll definitely be placing an order there at some point!
Three steeps of my beloved! Ahhhhh so good to be back to the roasty tangy deliciousness of this tea, and the focused energy it brings. Coffee can a harsh mistress when you are in her company excessively! Tea is so much more calmly invigorating. I am a much happier camper today drinking less coffee, and more tea!
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Nice new lunch time ritual: Closeting myself in the spare office with a cup of tea and my knitting. I feel so much better at the end of that hour!
This was a delicious choice to accompany me: roasty, interesting, complex, delicious! If I had a Top Ten Tea list, this one would definitely be on it :)
