I am in a sugar coma right now. In the afternoon I indulged in a delicious sakura flan on my tea trip with Mercuryhime, and afterwards I met up with the boy to check out Doughnut Plant. How can I NOT go to a store that Saveur says has some of the best donuts in the world? Of course I didn’t really plan on eating any tonight, I was going to save them, but the creme brulee and tres leches were calling our names… they are rather small (or at least the creme brulee was), but oh man it’s like all the richness of a real dessert wrapped in a donut. So good, but I feel like I don’t need to eat again for a week at least. And there are still 4 donuts left…
While this does not seem like a tea to reach for when you want the opposite of sugar, I found it in the traveling tea box (along with 2 other holiday ones!) and considering that I missed all of the flavors this year I decided to go for it.
I have a love/hate relationship with Celestial Seasonings. They have a small handful of blends that I enjoy from time to time, namely Sleepytime and Bengal Spice, but most of the time it’s just not quite there. I mean, I do tend to be more lenient in my opinion since it’s a bagged tea, but even then they taste… off. I think this blend falls somewhere in between: not great, but not really bad either.
Nutmeg is one of my favorite spices so I was excited to see a blend featuring it, but I am only getting a little whiff of nutmeg and some vanilla. No cinnamon at all! There’s kind of a generic holiday taste, like if you liquified Christmas potpourri and put it in tea. Which sounds gross but it’s not that bad! Well, not good, but not bad either. A decidedly middle of the road tea. But I am happy to have tried it—I want to get all the holiday blend desire out of my system so I can try them and not end up getting a whole box I will never drink!
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Next day doughnuts aren’t as good. You made the right choice in eating them fresh. :)
Mmm creme brulee donut sounds delicious! They should make that in a tea flavor!
Sakura flan sounds awesome!
Nutmeg is harder to add in tea because too much is bitter and I understand that you have to have chips (like shavings) not powder which is expensive to produce. I had a discussion about this with a tea company once. Same with cinnamon, chips not powder (but cinnamon is easier to do).
Next day doughnuts aren’t as good. You made the right choice in eating them fresh. :)
Mmm creme brulee donut sounds delicious! They should make that in a tea flavor!
Sakura flan sounds awesome!
Nutmeg is harder to add in tea because too much is bitter and I understand that you have to have chips (like shavings) not powder which is expensive to produce. I had a discussion about this with a tea company once. Same with cinnamon, chips not powder (but cinnamon is easier to do).