My PersonaliTea – Ottawa Valley
“It's not the destination, It's the journey.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
These are posts that involve anything related to tea.
I received this beautiful gift of teas from Umitea which resulted in a wonderful tea tasting experience. It included three of my favorite types of tea, green tea, oolong and white tea. The light, refreshing taste of white tea; the slightly grassy “green” flavour of green; slightly earthy and smoky flavour of oolong tea. Below […]
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I enjoy tea and loose leaf tea in particular. Since Covid hit the experience of going into a tea shop and smelling different teas, seeing the leaves up close and learning and chatting with the owner or tea sommelier, trading stories and experiences is no longer there. I never realized how big a part of […]
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I’m not a coffee drinker but when i saw this dalgona coffee, I thought, that looks too good not to at least try. Then I found a matcha version. The recipes are so simple. It’s too easy not to do, and the enjoyability factor afterwards it so great.
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What is hojicha? Hojicha is Japanese green tea. While most Japanese green teas are steamed, hojicha is roasted. This gives it a different flavour from most of the green teas you’d normally find from Japan. It also changes the leaf colour so the leaf is no longer green but more of a burnt red. It […]
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Throughout this experimentation process, more shortbread recipe variations came to mind but there just wasn’t enough time or calories to spare to try them all. That doesn’t mean that some day they won’t be tried. I have included some of the variations that came to mind but didn’t get a chance to be realized. I […]
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Matcha is being used in cooking in many ways. Including in cookies and in this case shortbread.
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