Tea

We bought a couple of kitchen gadget appliances this week, one reduced to less than half of its original price. It’s a Tefal Magic Tea Maker and is something we’d been wanting to get for a while now. I’m the only tea drinker in this family but we do occasionally have visitors who like tea. Anyway, I’ve been using this for a few days and I love it. It’s extremely easy to use with the only drawback a non-immersible pot. I went digging around for the Chai tea I’d bought a while back but couldn’t find it. The Scientist was helping and ended up cleaning out one of our cupboards in the course of the search. It was almost the last thing uncovered and it just happened to have expired a while back. So I went out to the one grocery store that was open (on New Year’s Day) and bought three different teas. I found a Chai tea but also got white tea and something called Rooibos. The latter is an herbal tea made from the red bush grown in South Africa. I tried it today and I think I’m going to be addicted. I ended up brewing three pots (one liter each) from two tea bags. I discovered it tastes best on the second brewing after it has cooled to room temperature. The best part is it has no caffeine so I can drink all I want.  I’m on the lookout now for other teas that might appeal as well.