Pistachio Ice Cream

Wow amazing! I love the pistachio smell and flavour. I brewed according to the directions and don’t find any bitterness with the green base at all, just a perfect balance of the pistachio then I taste the base and then am left with a buttery creaminess.

ETA: made more of this for the boys and hubby to try and they loved it. This was the favourite over cantaloupe and cream, so I too am bumping the rating up a bit:)

I added a full teaspoon of sugar this time, and I was more generous with the leaves. I was also not afraid to let it steep for a little longer than usual. This tea just gets better and better every time!

Now that I am recovering from teh sick, and am not going to contaminate anything with bad germs, I’m busy making up a huge list of samples I’ve promised people. Sil, your box is going to need a bigger box! IDK how I’m going to send all this stuff! Maybe some creative packing…

Tonight this tea is turning out to be too green for me. It’s really spinachy and savoury, which isn’t really what I wanted. I think I’m going to add a bit of sugar and some eggnog to reduce the greenness and bring it back to sweet dessert tea. :)

After reading whatshesaid’s glowing review of this yesterday, I decided to try my sample. But I got greedy and filled up my 12oz timolino rather than following the directions that clearly indicated 8oz. So now I have a pale imitation of the original. Lesson learned. Tea rebellion is not the way, my friends.

But despite that, it’s still tasty. It’s nutty and slightly sweet with a whisper of nutmeg, with that similar rich mouthfeel as Cantaloupe and Cream. I’m holding off rating until I get to try it properly one day, but considering Butiki’s track record so far I’m pretty sure I won’t be disappointed.

After having the AMAZING Cantaloupe tea by Butiki I had high hopes for this tea…. I was unfortunately disappointed. It just wasn’t as sweet and flavorful as I was hoping, especially with how full-bodied and amazing the other sample was. It could have just been a bad brew, though, and I only had a 1-cup sample so I can’t retest it :( To be fair, I DO have a really bad record with green teas… It’s a good assumption that I burned/ over-steeped it, so I won’t blame Butiki! Nor will I give it a rating… I’ll stick to the Cantaloupe in the future… MMMMM…..

This is a fun tea I got from Bonnie as a sample. I don’t buy a lot of these flavored teas, so it’s a treat to try them. This one reminds me of the winter holiday season, for some reason. I detect an undertone of the deep, sweet flavors of serious, home made ice cream- nuts, caramel/vanilla. I love the nutty aroma. For me, this would be a dessert tea. I’m very happy as I drink it- maybe it’s raising my serotonin levels!

I stopped at a little French bakery after my finals review this morning and picked up some delicious macarons! I’ve NEVER tried them and have been wanting too forever just never knew where to get them and me being a baker have ALWAYS wanted to bake them. So finally I splurged!
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The flavors I picked up: Pistachio, Raspberry, Lemon and Lavander.
So why not have the Pistachio one with this cup of tea!! Paired perfectly! The tea had the nuttiness of the pistachio and the macaron had the sweetness of the pistachio ice cream part. I love pistachio Ice cream and this tea did not let me down. Definitely a good idea to pair it with green tea. I loved it and thank you Shelley_ Lorraine for another amazing mystery swap choice!
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My very first Butiki Tea…my order of multiple Butiki Teas came just as I was leaving to catch a bus to visit my daughter at University…so I just ripped opened the box and grabbed one; I was running late and just caught my bus, but I had a thermos of Chai and my first Butiki, to be brewed with my daughter when I arrived.

It was worth the rush to grab the tea. This is a pistachio (one of my favourite things to eat) creamy tea and with a little sweetener added it is somewhat like ice cream. It reminds me a fair bit of Davids Tea “Secret Weapon”, but a milder, better version of it.

This is a nice tea but If I didn’t know it was pistachio ice cream I don’t think I’d be able to tell. It’s nutty and smooth vanilla but I dunno if I got a specifically pistachio ice cream vibe. All the same it is a good tea that is easy to drink.

Wow, what a difference time can make to one’s taste in teas. When I first had this, which was a really really long time ago (I feel so bad because I’ve recently found that drinking green teas is better to do in a shorter timeframe, as they tend to lose their freshness), I really wanted to like it, but just couldn’t get into it. The green base at that time was just too grassy, and my palate was not yet evolved.

Today, I decided to try it again and it’s quite lovely! Very smooth, a little nutty, and yes, grassy, but I can appreciate it so much better now! Yay! Glad I gave this one another shot, I will enjoy the rest of my bag! :)