This JUST arrived today. I was greeted by the lovely Canton Tea Club package after returning home from my cousinly brainstorming session. When I read the box, my heart skipped a beat. This tea was A-Murr-ican!
I tore it open instantly. This wasn’t my first exposure to the Eva Lee/Chiu Leong/Tea Hawaii outfit. I had sampled everything from their black, their white, their other green and their oolong. This was a different green tea from the last one. The leaves were longer, wider, a different shade of green, and the smell was kelpy and tart. I assumed this was actually from leaves grown on their private estate, not one from a neighboring garden.
I brewed it up the first time like I would any green tea, and it came out much too light. On a second go-around, I opted for boiling water and a three-minute steep. The approach turned out a very citrusy brew with a slight grassy kick. It was light in a Long Jing sorta way, but with no vegetal profile to speak of.
I liked it quite a bit, and it served as the perfect fuel while writing a Halloween-related rant (here: http://www.lazyliteratus.com/1869).
At the time of this writing, the blog for this offering isn’t up yet, but I’ll update this note accordingly when it does.
Correction: I guess this IS their Ol’a green, only with a different rolling method. shrug
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My husband made another batch of candy-corn sugar cookies (roll the little kernels up in slice-and-bake dough). They’re just evil.
And just because of that…I’m going out to buy candycorn.
OMG I am going to have to try that. It sounds simple but incredibly evil. Evilly yummy.
Just keep in mind, it’s WAY different from the Ol’a green.
Only thing to bear in mind (after clumsy experimentation) is that the candy corn re-e-e-eally melts (almost turns to hard candy) and can be very sticky. So we used baking parchment.
I always use baking parchment. It still sounds really yummmmmm. @Geoffrey – I love the Ola/Ol’a that I’ve tried but it would be good for this one to be different … different is good!
It’s heartier than the Ol’a. So that’s a plus.
My husband made another batch of candy-corn sugar cookies (roll the little kernels up in slice-and-bake dough). They’re just evil.
And just because of that…I’m going out to buy candycorn.
OMG I am going to have to try that. It sounds simple but incredibly evil. Evilly yummy.
Just keep in mind, it’s WAY different from the Ol’a green.
Only thing to bear in mind (after clumsy experimentation) is that the candy corn re-e-e-eally melts (almost turns to hard candy) and can be very sticky. So we used baking parchment.
I always use baking parchment. It still sounds really yummmmmm. @Geoffrey – I love the Ola/Ol’a that I’ve tried but it would be good for this one to be different … different is good!
It’s heartier than the Ol’a. So that’s a plus.