Even though I've yet to make much mention of tea, tea always looms large in my world. Aside from drinking it from morning til night, I research it, write about it, create stories about it, and am now creating my own skin care products with it.
I also get together about twice a month with Paulette McDaniel for tea tastings. We've been doing this about three years, but the last year has been especially fun because...
Paulette has become a tea blender!
She's now in possession of a plethora of high end extracts and flavorings as well as a prodigious amount of teas and botanicals. Her office has become a veritable playground.
One afternoon, when I happened to be suffering from one of the "sick" headaches that sometimes plague me, I began asking (perhaps it was closer to whining) why she hadn't yet created a "headache" tea.
This set us to wondering what such a tea would contain and that, of course, sent us on a search for the right herbs.
In the end, Paulette's brilliant palette created Lemonhead, a tea that not only ranks as possibly one of the best flavored teas I've ever tasted, but which has indeed gone far in alleviating my "sick" headaches - three different times, so far, mind you.
At your convenience, especially if you're a headache sufferer, I'd suggest you visit www.theidealtealeaf.com.
And what am I doing? I'm busy thinking of other blend possibilities.
Blueberry jasmine hold promise, don't you think?
I better go. I've got to call Paulette.
You can well imagine then my stance on egg salad, which aside from giving me a slight case of the willies, must truly be among the most unimaginative offerings to be found at the tea table. The slight uppity-ness I've come to accept as my companion through middle age always finds me thinking, "She could think of nothing else to serve?"
Thank goodness for friends! Paulette McDaniel of the Ideal Tea Leaf promised me an egg salad with a secret ingredient that would change my attitude. Heinz Salad Creme! Delicious stuff. A huge crack suddenly appeared in my egg salad view.
Then to my utter astonishment, another friend, Barb Toth, served a version that not only forever freed me of the egg salad willies but caused me to rethink my whole stance on the possibilities of the egg at teatime.
Here it is:
Finely chop 2 hard cooked eggs and blend with 1/2 cup mayonnaise and 1/2 teaspoon Herbs de Provence. Spread on buttered bread with crusts removed. Top with alfalfa sprouts and a second slice of buttered bread. Cut into triangles or slices.
Imagine this with Heinz Salad Creme! Which, by the way, is easily found at World Market and Brit grocery shops.
If only all of life's problems were as easy to solve as the egg salad willies!
Even though I've yet to make much mention of tea, tea always looms large in my world. Aside from drinking it from morning til night, I research it, write about it, create stories about it, and am now creating my own skin care products with it.
