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Our 2011 tea-centric holiday gift guide
Choosing gifts for tea drinkers is not only easy, it’s quite fun! We’re presenting our 2011 Gift Guide for Tea Drinkers, with fun stuff we love for the tea drinker in your life, and if you *are* a tea drinker, feel free to print this out and leave it on your kitchen counter, perhaps with “HINT, HINT” written across the top of it, for your family members to stumble across. Continue reading
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Tagged loose tea, organic tea, tea, tea gift, tea gifts, tea sampler, teascale, two leaves and a bud
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Mountain High Chai: Striking the right balance
In South Asia, the word “chai” just means “tea.” Spiced tea, as we know it, is actually “masala chai.” And what is that? It is black tea mixed with spices including cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, ginger and pepper, in many variations. Continue reading
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Tagged black tea, chai, chai tea, masala chai, Organic Mountain High Chai, two leaves and a bud
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When tea becomes part of the meal … literally
Introducing a new feature from us here at two leaves — recipes! Our new marketing coordinator, Christy Garfield, came up with this concept, and now, having made the first recipe for my family over the weekend I can stand up and say, “Bravo!” How great is it that I had some tea in my cupboard (of course) and I could use it to create a really delicious meal? I’m looking forward to discovering many more tea-centric recipes that make our tea shine way beyond your daily mug. In this case, I used a spice grinder (but you could easily use a mortar and pestle) to pulverize a couple of sachets of Organic Mountain High Chai. That heavenly-smelling powder gets blended in with other spices and used as a rub on pork that will be seared. More of the Mountain High … Continue reading
Heat for the perfect steep
Boil, plunk, and enjoy. As in, boil your water, plunk in the tea sachet, and drink your tea. Aren’t those the basic rules for making tea? Actually, no. At two leaves and a bud, we think if you’re going to enjoy a premium cuppa’ our whole leaf tea, you might want to learn a bit more about how to prepare one so you get the most out of every leaf. So consider, for a minute, that the temperature of the water you’re preparing for tea is just as important as the time you allot for steeping the tea. After all, you want to brew up the best tea you can, don’t you? But not to worry — we’re not about to intimidate you with how you should buy a fancy-schmancy thermometer to painstakingly take the temperature of each kettle you’re … Continue reading
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Tagged assam, black tea, boil, camellia Sinensis, earl grey, Green tea, mountain high chai, Oolong tea, steep, temperature, two leaves and a bud, water, white tea, whole leaf tea
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From Sri Lanka with love
Last week we discussed what makes tea sachets so much better than tea bags. You ended up with a bunch of tea on your kitchen counter, but also a head full of knowledge about the full flavor you can get from whole leaf tea like ours. Isn’t reading a tea blog rewarding? So this time around we wanted to show you a couple of photos from one of the spots where our tea is put into those sachets. We like to pack the tea as close to the source as possible, and since a number of our teas are grown in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), that’s where this particular factory is. Thanks to you, our business is growing (cheers!) and so we need more machines to pack our tea. Last week this particular factory sent us photos from the inauguration … Continue reading
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