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RIP-Donald Stookey: inventor of #CorningGlass

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:00:00 +0000

Have you heard of Don Stookey? no? me neither. I never heard of Don Stookey until today when I was reading an article on Yahoo about this great inventor: Scientist who developed CorningWare dies in NY Mr. Stookey died few days ago at the age of 99. We all benefit from his inventions today, including the resistant glass teapots we sell.

The story goes when Dr. Stookey was testing a piece of glass plate, he accidentally heated the oven to 1600F, instead of 1100F. And the result surprised him-instead of a melting piece, he found a milky white plate, fotoform glass, the first strong, heat resistant glass ceramics.

I used to own few pieces of CorningWare, which normally have very thick glass walls. They are super easy to use and make a beautiful display. This reminds me that I should visit Corning Glass Museum!!It'd be fun to spend few days at the Glass museum...

pic from corning glass museum

RIP Mr. Stookey!!

Journey of teapot quote by Mason Cooley

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 15:00:00 +0000

Cure for an obsession: get another one
Mason Cooley

Can't agree more! if you are obsessed with shoes, go get obsessed with money;)

Journey of teapot quote by Charles Kettering

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 15:00:00 +0000

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax
Charles Kettering

Journey of Teapot quote by Rita Rudner

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 15:00:00 +0000

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always by Rita Rudner

Did you find your Aways Right?;)

Journey of Teapot-quote by Tullulah Bankhead

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 15:00:00 +0000

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner-Tullulah Bankhead

This is soo true my friend!

Journey of teapot quote by Tullulah Bankhead

Journey of Teapot-quote by Luis Bunel

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 15:00:00 +0000

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese
Luis Bunel

Isn't it true?;) and Life gets better and better with age;)

Edible art on Toast by Ida Frosk

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:30:00 +0000

I accidentally found a famous food artist online. Her name is Ida Frosk. She presents her food in art, with healthy ingredients. From fruits to vegetables and yogurt, she makes her foods an edible art!

I love The Art Toast project she created-Van Gogh, Picasso, Pollock. You name it! And, most importantly, she drinks tea!!! For most of the toast below, you can safely pair green tea or light black tea.

All pictures are from Ida Frosk's websit

Healthy recipe Strawberry Jam vegan gluten free

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 13:30:00 +0000

Summer is the best season for delicious fruits like strawberries! I one time bought a bag of frozen strawberries. It tastes not too bad, but it just doesn't taste yummy like the fresh ones.

Benefits:
Strawberries are rich in Vitamin C (which tastes sour) and is a great weight loss fruit!! Great to know it huh? The sour tastes from Vitamin C stimulate our taste buds.

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Healthy Recipes Strawberry smoothies (frozen strawberries, peanuts, banana, sugar free)

Strawberry Chardonnay Sorbet

Whole wheat strawberry green tea pancake

Blooming tea punch

This recipe is very good for kids and seniors. Why?

1. It uses the freshest ingredients.
2. improve appetites. Summer time we do consume a lot of energy due to hot weather, but you may find you don't have much appetite for food. This recipe helps people get appetite, especially kids. When we get older, the taste buds are not as sensitive as before. Fruits like strawberries stimulate the taste buds.

3. well cooked. You would think for food, the more raw, the better? Think twice! Raw foods do have certain advantages as some nutrition is subject to high temperature. But, one thing to remember, the con of raw foods is that it could catch germs or bacterias easily due to high humidity and temperature in summer time.

This recipe can be used as topping for yogurt or ice cream.It can also be used as spread for bread, etc

Tea pairing: It pairs very well with black tea or Puerh

source www.self.com

I bought few packs of organic strawberries from Wholefoods last week when on sale.Even it's organic, I still like to rinse all strawberries thoroughly.

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Ingredients:

3 cups strawberries chopped

3 tbsp blue agave

1 tsp stevia

1 tsp balsamic vinegar (my secrete!!)

1 tsp fresh lime juice (roughly half lime)

It makes about one and half or two cups of jam

Instruction:

1. Mix balsamic vinegar, lime juice, blue agave together, evenly.

2. Heat the pot. Add sliced strawberries and the mixture from step 1

3. bring to boil, then keep the heat medium low, for about 20 minutes. no cover. Otherwise, it could spill. We always say time flies, but when you are making yum yum, 1 minute is long time;) I remember when my mom was cooking in kitchen, my sister and I asked my mom every 2 minutes, mom, it is ready yet?

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Some people stir while some don't. It wont burn at the bottom if you don't stir. I normally continue what I'm doing while making strawberry jam.

4. Turn off the heat. Add Stevia. Stir well to make sure stevia dissolve evenly. Then use the potato masher to mash the chunk strawberries. After 20 minutes cooking, strawberries are melting. It's very easy to mash them.

That's it!! I add some strawberry jam to my yogurt, pair it with my favorite black tea, Yum Yum, everyone!! That's my afternoon tea. What's yours?;))

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Apple Jasmine tea iced sugar free stevia dairy free vegan

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:28:00 +0000

Almost the whole summer i drink jasmine iced tea! Love the aroma, and taste. Traditional Jasmine manufacturing process is a labor intensive one-need to make the green tea first, then mix tea leaves with freshly blossoming jasmine few times, until tea leaves obtain the nice aroma. Then dry it. It takes about one month to complete premium jasmine green tea process. If higher quality is desired, it takes even longer time and labor to make it.

By the way, do you know Jasmine flowers only open at night? workers pluck the jasmine flower buds in the afternoon. When Jasmine flowers open at night, tea leaves absorb the aroma. That's the basic principle of jasmine tea manufacturing process.

The jasmine tea we carry has outstanding aroma, best for iced tea!

Strawberry Frozen Yogurt sugar free
Mint green iced tea sugar free 3 ingredients of less
Orange Matcha Ice cream

Naturally flavored iced tea (Grapefruit, lime, sugar free, dairy free, gluten free)

The mystery of Iced Tea

Benefits-the most important benefit (forget about nutrition), is it makes the kisses taste so much better! I wont lie! This is particular true if someone you kiss is a tea drinker. Here's my plan-Monday, Jasmine kiss, Tuesday Oolong kiss, Wednesday Assam kiss....what a wonderful way to kiss again!

Besides, All of the mouth rinse products are full of chemicals! nothing natural! You agree? Jasmine tea is completely natural and delicious! it keeps your mouth smell like...your month with jasmine iced tea! I know I'm right!;) Everyone tried knows what I'm talking about!! Second, sure the nutrition-good source of antioxidants.

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Jasmine is widely used in aroma therapy, for its calming effect. It does help calm down the nerve! so when you are just about to scream at someone, drinks Jasmine iced tea next time!

For people who don't like to eat apple, this is a great way to enjoy this fruit. Apple add hint of fruity aroma, and sour sweet taste, and style!!! The finish is sweet with a little bit tangent.
Ingredients:

1 tsp Tea Beyond Premium Jasmine green tea (whole leaf) if too light, you can use 1-1/2 tsp (or you can use any jasmine tea available)
25 oz water
1 apple, remove the central seed part and sliced
1 bag of ice cubes
1 tsp stevia powder

Instruction:

1. Add 25 oz water to the kettle. Turn on stove. Heat the water until boiling. Let it sit for 2-3 minutes

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2. Meanwhile get the teapot and tea ready on the counter. Add the jasmine tea leaves to the strainer then pour the water over the leaves. Wait about 10-11.59 minutes, until you see the liquid becomes gold color. Right now the aroma should be full length! Don't just open the teapot lid yet. Add the stevia powder and stir until dissolve.

3. Get the pitcher ready. Fill it with some ice cubes first. Then add few Apple slices. add more ice cubes, more apple slices until the pitch is full. I like to steal few ice cubes sometimes while making my iced tea. can't help-just love the crunching noise;)

4. Pour the freshly brewed jasmine green tea over the ice cubes. Most of glass pitchers are not made of heat resistant glass thus can't handle high temperature water. when you pour the hot jasmine tea over ice cubes, the temperature drops immediately in the pitcher and avoid breaking it.

5. Shake a bit to allow temperature even in the pitcher. What to wait? Ready to drink! That should be the start of your tea part!

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Let me know how your Jasmine iced tea kisses going? or what kisses you have today?;))

Muah Muah, to all of you, Jasmine kisses today!

xoxo

RE: George Owell's 11 Golden rules of making perfect cup of tea

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:00:00 +0000

I read an article recently, George Owell's 11 Golden rules of making perfect cup of tea, on TheKitchn.com, by Cambria Bold. Absolutely love it! It's very informative. I made some notes based upon Mr. Owell's golden rules (his rules in Italian while my comments right below)

I did a quick research on the web about George Owell:

Based upon wikipedia, George Owell was born in India in 1903 (one year older than my grandpa), died in 1950. Grew up in a "lower-upper-middle class family and moved from places to places, Mr. Owell was a heavy smoker and loved strong tea. By profession, he was a journalist. One time he ate cat's dinner by mistake. (how??) His sister Avril actually ran a tea house in England at that time. This info explains why and where he got his 11 golden rules of a nice cup of tea.

First of all, one should use Indian or Ceylonese tea. China tea has virtues which are not to be despised nowadays — it is economical, and one can drink it without milk — but there is not much stimulation in it. One does not feel wiser, braver or more optimistic after drinking it. Anyone who has used that comforting phrase ‘a nice cup of tea’ invariably means Indian tea.

1. Mr. Orwell lived during World Wars era. After Opium War (1884), India and Sri Lanka stayed dominant for Black tea export. Chinese tea industry was almost completely destroyed during the war times. So Mr. Orwell didn't really have the right access to good quality Chinese tea.
2. Throughout history, teas for export were not premium quality due to high duties and high manufacturing costs.
3. He mentioned "stimulation", which indicates high volume of Caffeine content. Depends on how tea is brewed, but in general black teas contain higher percentage of caffeine than green tea, mainly due to the varieties of tea leaves used to make black tea and when tea leaves are harvested. Caffeine tastes bitter, which mainly contributes the strength of cuppa tea. Since he was a heavy smoker, his taste buds surely need "stronger stimulation". More caffeine helps keep Mr. Orwell staying alert, thus "wiser & braver". But based upon scientific research today, strong tea may not be a good thing for health.

Secondly, tea should be made in small quantities — that is, in a teapot. Tea out of an urn is always tasteless, while army tea, made in a cauldron, tastes of grease and whitewash. The teapot should be made of china or earthenware. Silver or Britannia ware teapots produce inferior tea and enamel pots are worse; though curiously enough a pewter teapot (a rarity nowadays) is not so bad.

In traditional Chinese tea ceremony, only smaller teapots and tea cup sets are used. There are reasons for that-smaller teapot sets 1) allow tea drinkers to identify the key characteristics of tea in depth; 2) help bring more balanced flavors and stronger aroma out of tea. If bigger pot, like urn is used, tea gets diluted, both aroma and taste. Even if more tea leaves are added, the tea drinking experiences are completely different between the two different brewing devices: smaller teapots vs urn. It's like sip vs drink: one is to appreciate the love of labor and the present from nature, while another one is to crunch the thirst.

Thirdly, the pot should be warmed beforehand. This is better done by placing it on the hob than by the usual method of swilling it out with hot water.

This is absolutely classic, Mr. Orwell! I would assume the "hob" here refers to tea warmer? During tea ceremony, hot water constantly are poured on teapot directly to keep the teapot hot. This helps tea release aroma and stay strong. In most of times, tea gets condensed when sitting on tea warmer.

Let me do a quick survey: who warms the teapot before brewing tea? Leave a comment below if you do!

Fourthly, the tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right. In a time of rationing, this is not an idea that can be realized on every day of the week, but I maintain that one strong cup of tea is better than twenty weak ones. All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes — a fact which is recognized in the extra ration issued to old-age pensioners.

Don't agree with this one. Regardless personal preferences, from health perspective, light tea is highly recommended.

Fifthly, the tea should be put straight into the pot. No strainers, muslin bags or other devices to imprison the tea. In some countries teapots are fitted with little dangling baskets under the spout to catch the stray leaves, which are supposed to be harmful. Actually one can swallow tea-leaves in considerable quantities without ill effect, and if the tea is not loose in the pot it never infuses properly.

For whole leaf tea, absolutely agree with this one! Strainers help separate tea leaves from the liquid, but limit the space for tea leaves to expand.

There's another reason not to use strainer-beautifully processed tea leaves create a dynamic and artful presentation when soaked in water-some leaves up, some leaves down; some leaves fully opened while others half display; the beautiful colors of leaves bring nature to the cup. This is another way to appreciate the top skills of tea masters who make the tea.

Another thing Mr. Owell didn't cover is the CTC tea. CTC tea is the modern invention from the industrialization. It brings down the costs of tea manufacturing thus makes it one of the most popular drink world wide possible. For CTC tea or smaller sized tea leaves, strainer should be used.

George Owell on Time mag

Sixthly, one should take the teapot to the kettle and not the other way about. The water should be actually boiling at the moment of impact, which means that one should keep it on the flame while one pours. Some people add that one should only use water that has been freshly brought to the boil, but I have never noticed that it makes any difference.
During tea ceremony, it's important to keep teapot hot. Normally water freshly boiled is better to be used to brew tea. If keeping tea kettle on the flame all the time, it causes liquid to evaporate, which impacts the tea brewed.

Seventhly, after making the tea, one should stir it, or better, give the pot a good shake, afterwards allowing the leaves to settle.
Depends on leaves: when brew regular leaves, it helps tea leaves release the tastes and aroma faster when stirring or shaking it. For much younger leaves, especially tender silver needles green tea (top grades), or Bi Luo Chun, no need to shake or stir.

Eighthly, one should drink out of a good breakfast cup — that is, the cylindrical type of cup, not the flat, shallow type. The breakfast cup holds more, and with the other kind one’s tea is always half cold before one has well started on it.

It's my impression that English tea cups are transformed from the Chinese Gai Wan, traditional tea drinking device. The size and shape allows everyone to
1) finish it without getting cold;
2)enough volume to leave nice aroma on the cup wall;
3)good size to refill water to the body after few hours sleep
4)Enough caffeine to wake the spirit up and catch the 5 am train;)

Traditional Gai Wan

Ninthly, one should pour the cream off the milk before using it for tea. Milk that is too creamy always gives tea a sickly taste.

Original English tea doesn't have any milk or sugar added. Milk, etc is added to tea partially to blend local food culture into tea drinking. Other things added to tea include garlic, onion, spices, etc. This is especially true after CTC tea becomes popular. Regular CTC teas are made of more mature tea leaves, very strong, not much complexity. It's almost undrinkable if without milk added.

There are pros and cons of adding milk to tea. Or it depends on what kind of you drink. Maybe Mr. Owell was trying to create his own style of tea drinking. Adding cream to tea, in my view, creates a little bit texture to the drink. It's like cappuccino for coffee. However, mixing milk with tea can negatively impact the function of tannins, active components of health benefits tea brings to the table-weight loss.

Another thing, try to avoid drinking tea with an empty stomach. In Asia, people normally pair tea with nuts, biscuits, etc to protect stomach.

Tenthly, one should pour tea into the cup first. This is one of the most controversial points of all; indeed in every family in Britain there are probably two schools of thought on the subject. The milk-first school can bring forward some fairly strong arguments, but I maintain that my own argument is unanswerable. This is that, by putting the tea in first and stirring as one pours, one can exactly regulate the amount of milk whereas one is liable to put in too much milk if one does it the other way round.

Very interesting.

School #1: milk first tea added later-possible beginning tea drinker or someone who used to drink milk. Add tea to get some health benefits or tastes.

School #2: tea first then add milk later-possible regular tea drinker.

Among the two schools, which one you would like to join?

One thing worth to try, if you are used to add milk to tea, try hot milk! The hot mixture brings out nice aroma of tea and milk combined.

Lastly, tea — unless one is drinking it in the Russian style — should be drunk without sugar. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water.
Some people would answer that they don’t like tea in itself, that they only drink it in order to be warmed and stimulated, and they need sugar to take the taste away. To those misguided people I would say: Try drinking tea without sugar for, say, a fortnight and it is very unlikely that you will ever want to ruin your tea by sweetening it again.

Mr. Owell is truly a tea enthusiast-He enjoyed the natural taste of tea, instead of mixing with anything else. This is typically all tea professionals would do-drink tea only, without mixing anything else. This allows people to identify the nuances between different teas.

It's like Whisky-serious whisky drinkers enjoy more the single malt whisky, instead of cocktails.

However, we should always have side snacks when drinking tea, including starch/sweet snacks, nuts.

These are not the only controversial points to arise in connexion with tea drinking, but they are sufficient to show how subtilized the whole business has become. There is also the mysterious social etiquette surrounding the teapot (why is it considered vulgar to drink out of your saucer, for instance?) and much might be written about the subsidiary uses of tea leaves, such as telling fortunes, predicting the arrival of visitors, feeding rabbits, healing burns and sweeping the carpet. It is worth paying attention to such details as warming the pot and using water that is really boiling, so as to make quite sure of wringing out of one’s ration the twenty good, strong cups of that two ounces, properly handled, ought to represent.

Well, I think I just completed my own "A nice cup of tea" essay!!! Right after I wrote my response, I found similar article posted by Stephen Hough on Telegraph.co.uk. Enjoyed reading people's comments as well

Do you drink tea? what's your favorite tea?

How to make Strawberry Frozen Yogurt NO sugar added

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:00:00 +0000

Hot hot hot and humid weather this summer! Too hot to handle this summer Drink iced tea every day now! The great part of summer is that there are so many different fresh fruits available! I bought some organic strawberries at Wholefoods the other day. Today I want to make something icy icy cold frozen yogurt to cool me down. I have two air conditioners on right now. Still feels the heat!

Made few strawberry recipes before:

Strawberry smoothy

Healthy Recipe Strawberry Smoothie (3 ingredients or less, strawberries, peanuts)

Strawberry Chardonnay Sorbet

whole wheat strawberry green tea pancake

Lightly Alcoholic Blooming Tea Punch

Benefits of this recipe:

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1. One thing tea lovers need to know is if you drink a lot of tea every day, you need to get more calcium. I will write a separate blog to explain why. One of the direct food sources to get calcium is milk (try the one that contains Vitamin D). Alternatively You can take supplements (ie, if you are a vegan). Some vegetables have good volume of calcium as well. Make sure to walk around your buildings for few minutes a day to get enough sunlight, pretending you are taking trash out every day;) This will help your body to generate Vitamin D, the major element to allow your body to absorb calcium.

2. Another good thing about this recipe is that yogurt contains live enzyme which helps digestion.

3. Strawberries are great source for Vitamin C. It also adds a lot flavors to the taste.

4. Doesn't have sugar added. Almost all frozen yogurt or ice creams in the market contain tons of sugar.

Tea pairing-great with black, Oolong tea

Plus, this Strawberry frozen yogurt recipe is super easy to make. Here's what you need:

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Ingredients:

3 cups plain fat free Greek yogurt (or regular plain Greek yogurt)

1 beet cooked

3 tbs grape raisin (or any other kinds), cleaned and chopped

1-1/2 cups of strawberries chopped

1-1/2 tsp fresh lime juice

Ice cream maker

Optional-extra strawberry or mint leaves for garnish

plus few audience to compliment ya;) and this is always the best ingredient, based on my experience

Equipment-ice cream maker

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Instruction:

1. clean strawberries, grape raisins. I normally use organic strawberries and raisins (psychologically makes me feel more comfy). Did you notice regular strawberries are huge in sizes! Size does matter! The smaller ones taste better. Not always the bigger the better;)

2. chop raisin, strawberries, and beet into small pieces. Are you mad? then chop! chop chop! when someone likes cooking, you know that person is mad all the time, yeah, i mean chefs!

3. ice cream container needs to be frozen for hours before ready to use. Take it out from the fridge then add all ingredients to the container

4. Turn the ice cream maker on, then rock & roll!! 20-30 minutes! That's it! if you want to make it prettier when serving, garnish with some mint leaves or a whole strawberry. It adds some colors to the presentation and aroma when eating.

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TGIF Too hot to handle

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:44:00 +0000

You think you are hot? the weather is hotter! Happy Friday!

Wendesday Photography Trees

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:00:00 +0000

image credit: Michi Lauke
Does it look like a puppy head?

Tree of light by this guy

Tree in tree (not sure who shot this photo. I didn't do it). If you work too hard and feel tired at office, look trees outside of the window. It is said green color helps relax your eyes. I found that very true cause all dollar bills are in green color.

This is by GetawayAlpha

This photo somehow reminds me the Snow white story. Who did this?

Monday Quotes Friendship

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:00:00 +0000

Tea-holic Lightly alcoholic Jasmine Pea-cha-cha #Stevia recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 14:00:00 +0000

Tea-holic Lightly Alcoholic Jasmine Pea-Cha-Cha stevia recipe

Time to celebrate this beautiful weather. What's your plan for July 4th? Whether getaways trips, or simply beach parties, an iced drink is a NECESSITY for a sizzling tzzling summur!

Recently we imported some Premium Jasmine green tea. O-M-G! A-D! (Absolutely Delicious) Y-H-T-T-I (You have to try it). I have always wanted to carry Jasmine tea, but I am kinda picky: it has to have stuuuung and luuuung lasting aroma! Couldn't find any products meet my requirement until recently I discovered one tea farm that makes such a FDAL (fabulous delicious absolutely lovely) jasmine tea. I am so excited to share it with everyone!

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This Jasmine tea is processed with traditional method-tea leaves are processed and assorted first. Next step is to mix tea with freshly blossoming jasmine flowers for a whole night. Then separate and dry. If stronger aroma is desired, repeat the aromatizing process few times. Each time new and fresh jasmine blossoming flowers are required.

I was watching "Everyone Loves Raymond" last weekend. Raymond was honored a Doctor degree. He told Debra about it. She congratulated him, and said, one time Ray pronounced "Stomachache" like Sto-ma-cha-cha! hahaha!!

I was eating a peach while watching TV. Guess what, I got the inspiration then-this should be Alcoholic Jasmine Pea-cha-cha!!! Peach is summer and summer is pea-cha-cha!

Lightly Alcoholic Blooming Tea Punch!!!

Light Alcoholic Sin City Green Tea Punch (Stevia)

Healthy recipes Iced Green tea (Mint, sugar free, dairy free, 3 ingredients or less, Gluten free)

Healthy Recipe Naturally flavored iced tea (Grapefruit, lime, sugar free, dairy free, gluten free)

Healthy recipes-Flower in ice (Green tea ice cubes

How to make iced blooming tea (Sugar free

It's super easy to make it and great for people who don't drink much alcoholic beverages. Alternatively, if you are alcoholic-no-no, delete one of the main ingredients-Rum. That would be the non-alcoholic version of Jasmine Pea-cha-cha

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Ingredients:

2.03 peaches
24.13 oz water
2.01 tsp Tea Beyond Jasmine green tea
1.52 tsp stevia
3.12 oz Rum
ice cubes
And few mouths to say OMG, Delicious

Tools needed:

1 pitcher
1 tea kettle or anything to boil water
1 tea pot (can hold at least 24.12 oz water)
1 fruit knife
1 cocktail spoon
1 teaspoon
1 fruit cutting board

Instructions:

1. Fill the tea kettle with 24.13 oz better tasty water (filtered, or spring water)
2. Put the tea kettle lid on
3. Put the tea kettle filled with water on top of the stove
4. Turn on the stove. Wait until the water boiling (2.59 minutes or more)
5. Use tea spoon to scoop 1.52 tea spoon Jasmine tea and add it teapot
6. After 2.59 and more minutes, let the water sit for 2.09 and more minutes to cool a little bit. Or you can mix the boiling water with room temperature water. The ideal water temperature should be 195.52F
7. Pour the water into teapot filled with 1.52 teaspoon Jasmine green tea. Brew for about 9.89 minutes.
7.5 add the 1.52 tsp stevia and use the cocktail spoon to stir until dissolve
8. Clean the 2.03 peaches carefully.
9. Take the fruit cutting board and fruit knife out.
10. slice the peaches, with the rhythm: 1 and 2, 1 and 2,3, 4...repeat until you get the two peaches sliced completely.
14 Get the pitcher ready. Fill the pitcher with ice cubes
15. Pour in the hot jasmine green tea, add the peach slices, plus 3.12 oz rum.
16. Use the cocktail spoon stir a little bit.

The ultimate goal of this drink is you might get dizzy after drinking 2 gallons, but will never get drunk cause you will keep drinking and keep going to bathroom, ever 5.5 minutes!

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For people who have sweet tooth and don't like the flavor of stevia (actually tastes not too bad , alternatively you can add a little bit honey plus 3/4 tsp stevia (half of 1.56 tsp). This will leave you roughly half of the calories as compared to completely using honey.

Question of the day: Have you ever made any recipes with Jasmine tea? Or what kind of drinks you make to get people drunk for July 4th? Please share it in comments

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TGIF Happy 4th of July quote

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 14:00:00 +0000

Here's my Happy 4th of July quote:

American independence does not come for free. It has to be drunk for and get passed out. On this 4th of July may your stomach be filled with tea, compassion for your fellow tea lovers, and the determination to drink hard to make this country a better place to host tea parties. Cheers!

Iced Green tea (Mint, sugar free, dairy free, 3 ingredients or less, Gluten free)

Strawberry Smoothie (3 ingredients or less, strawberries, peanuts)

Lightly Alcoholic Blooming Tea punch

Alcoholic drinks recipes-Light Alcoholic Sin City Green Tea Punch (Stevia)

Mango Drumsticks with Red Wine

Very cool new ipad Magic features. Can your ipad do that? I'd love a cup of iced tea from this ipad. Let me know this weekeeend;))

What's your July 4th plan? I possible will double dip tea. shoot me an email if you'd like to share your stories;)

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Happy July 4th! Cheers!
xoxo

Tea Hack-How to make an easy water filter refill BPA free

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:00:00 +0000

What water you use to brew your tea or coffee every day? Tab water, spring water, filtered water, distilled water? Or glacier water, water from Mars?

In old times, people believed water from heaven was superb quality cause it was from god, so they would use a big bucket to collect rain and snow to brew tea. They were right, at that time, when no airplanes flying in the sky. Have you heard of blue ice from airplane? Yeah, from the same heaven!

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I surely drink tea daily and my water is as the same important as my tea quality! Why your tea doesn’t always taste right? Check your water! Water is the dissolvant that brings all flavors out of tea leaves. Spring water is my favorite so far.

Since I drink a LOT of tea daily, it now becomes an issue, for my wallet. I have to fix it. I bought so many different brand water filters. Either it’s not easy to install, or too costly to change the filter. I search on the web to find a better solution. There are multiple videos which show DIY water filter or water filter refill. That’s too high tech for me-I don’t have an electrical drill. And it’s not easy to get all old charcoals out through the little hole drilled.

Or you can distill water this way (so cool! like some Kung Fu tools!)

Well, I think I found a better and easier way-I went to Bed Bath and Beyond the other day. While searching for cheese clothes, I saw few spice bags! Voo la la! That’s the ah-ha moment! I spent $1.79 and bought 3 spice bags-muslin bags, purely natural, very easy to clean. And, most importantly, very inexpensive! Even if you throw away, it’s eco friendly. I bought one pound of organic activated carbon long time ago on Ebay, cost me something close to $10. I thought to use it to clean my air. Now I think I have a better way to use it-make water filter refills.

Here’s how to make a really easy and inexpensive water filter refill:

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Materials:

activated carbon, Water tank, 3 spice bags and tab water.

Tools:
Table spoon

Instructions:

Open one muslin bag, use spoon to add some activated carbon to the muslin bag. Fill it until full. Then tighten the thread and make a knot.
Same way to fill the other two muslin bags.
Drop all three muslin bags filled with activated carbon to the water tank. Fill with water then wait few hours.

That’s it!

Cons

Savings! One pound of activated charcoals last close to half year or longer. No extra tools are needed to purchase.
Easy to clean: You can empty the muslin bags and clean then reuse. The material is NATURAL. You can choose the plastic water filter-no guarantee BPA free yo!
More efficient-I did the comparison test at my kitchen: the muslin bags filled with activated carbon work FASTER than the regular water filter cartridge
Easy to refill-no drills/tools/skills needed
Save time-muslin bags have much bigger opening thus it takes few seconds to fill and refill. No warm up and prep time needed.

Pros:

Might have some carbon out-the activated carbon are very small and some might leak out into water. It doesn’t impact the taste of water, except appearance. Besides, it always stay at the bottom of the water tank. As long as you pour slowly, you wont get activated carbon in your cup. That’s the only thing I can think of.

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Map of where your money goes

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:00:00 +0000

What did the duck say after he went shopping?
(Put it on my bill!)
What did the football coach say to the broken vending machine?
(Give me my quarterback/quarter back!)
What has a hundred heads and a hundred tails?
(One hundred pennies!)
Why did the woman go outdoors with her purse open?
(Because she expected some change in the weather!)
Why can't you borrow money from a leprechaun?
(Because they're always a little short!)
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Are you a Double dose Tea Mastrrrr?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:28:00 +0000

I got an email minutes ago:

Jane,

I noticed on your profile on LinkedIn.com that your credentials include the designation "Certified Tea Master." I would be interested in knowing how and where you obtained this designation. The American Tea Masters Association is the owner of this trademark, and we go to great lengths to protect it. To the best of my knowledge, you have never studied with us or participated in any of our training programs...."

Chas

I certainly never heard of this Chas nor such association...There are just too many world wide...

Not to disrespect this Chas on the internet, here's my response:

do you also own Certified Tea Mustor? Certified Tea Mastrrrr, Certified Tea Mstr??...No problem, my title actually is Certified Double Dose Tea Mastorrrr

Here's my linked in title now:

What's Double dose Tea Mstrrrrr (Pro)? you need to email me;))

Updates:

After back and forth emails with this person, I requested his credentials about his certificates. So far,
1) he never responded with his credentials.
2)couldn't find any of his claimed Registered Trade Mark info on USPTO.gov . If Certified Tea Master is a registered trade mark like claimed, there should be a public record on USPTO website. But I can't find any. Anybody has any info, please email me INFO@TEABEYOND.COM.

I would like to trade in-Anybody who can answer the two questions above, i offer a full set of teapot and tea cups sets plus 100 grams (3 oz) of premium Jasmine green tea! First come first serve-only two available.

TGIF Gangnam Style Stephen Chow version

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:41:00 +0000

hahagaga!! you have to watch this!!

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I just found this clip on Youtube!! Tea lovers' must see!!! Stephen Chow is one of the most famous Producers in HongKong. Someone made this clip from Stephen's movies!! what tea you should drink while watching this clip? urrrrr....I gonna call it Black Pu Erh Oolong cause that's Gangnam Style

Happy Gangnam style weekendie, everyone! Muah

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TGIF Old Fart joke

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 03:55:00 +0000


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I like old people. They are the source of wisdom, even when they fart!

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A couple had been married for 50 years.
They were sitting at the breakfast table one morning when the old gentleman said to his wife, "Just think, honey, we've been married for 50 years."
"Yeah," she replied, "Just think, fifty years ago we were sitting here at this breakfast table together."
"I know," the old man said, "We were probably sitting here naked as jaybirds fifty years ago."
"Well," Granny snickered, "What do you say...should we get naked?"
Where upon the two stripped to the buff and sat down at the table.
"You know, honey," the little old lady breathlessly replied, "My breasts are as hot for you today as they were fifty years ago."
"I wouldn't be surprised," replied Gramps. "One's in your coffee and the other is in your oatmeal!

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Who told me this old fart joke? I do not remember. Claim it if that's you, my friend. But I get the takeaway point: Like the old saying: stay HOT, stay thirsty!;)

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noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:35:00 +0000

Yogi in the air

This pose is called Yogi in the air!;) I did believe it though! Cats can do that too?!

Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.~ Krishnamacharya

That's too complicated! I just completely surrender to god!

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When teaching Setu Bandhasana (Bridge Pose) by putting a ball between a student's knees so they will not splay the legs apart, this was said to a male yoga student: "Wow! You could fit two balls between your legs!"

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Question: Why did the yogi refuse anesthesia when having his wisdom teeth removed?
Answer: He wanted to transcend-dental-medication.

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TGIF Funny dance

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 07:08:00 +0000

Dancing with the stars

I don't know why Michael Phelps had that face? Is it because a man picked him up or he won the 23rd gold medal in Ballet? But this picture is really funny!! He might be a great dancer if he wanted to be!

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It reminds me another dancing clip I watched on Youtube.com. You would not believe it!! This dancer perfectly fits the horror movies! You will know what I mean!

There was a dance teacher who talked of a very old dance called the Politician. "All you have to do" she told her class "is take three steps forward, two steps backward, then side-step side-step and turn around."

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Dancing weekend?!!

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TGIF Cutest Panda

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:03:00 +0000

Cutest Panda-wake up cutie!

You are not the only one who senses the hot summer this year! But Panda knows his way to stay cool!!

Where did you go this Summer to cool off? I swim in my iced tea pool!! How does that sound? I think very cool!

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Panda bear!! They are the cutest and totally adorable. The first time I saw Panda was when I visit the Beijing Zoo.

The other day I read the news about Panda tea (yeah! it's called Panda tea) that is grown in where Panda lives. Someone is inspired by Panda's poo poo. People who raise panda don't want to waste Panda's waste. So they have a better idea of using the poo poo. And it's purely organic!! Never really tried Panda tea (quite expensive), but I think it must smell like bamboo!;)

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A panda walked into a bar and went up to the bartender and said: "I want a sandwich and a Coke please." The bartender took his order and the Panda went to sit down at a table. Soon, a waiter took over the meal, the Panda gobbled it up, thanked, tipped the waiter and paid his bill.
All seemed normal until the Panda pulled out a gun from the depths of his fur, pulled the trigger and BANG! shot the waiter dead.
The barman rushed over and said: "Argh!! You just shot my friend!!!" The Panda calmly replied: "Do you know what I am?" "Of Course I do," the barman answered, "you're a Panda!" "Good," the Panda replied, "now go home and look me up in the dictionary." And with that, the Panda walked out of the bar.
The barman was a little unsure, but he was very eager to be enlightened on the subject of his friend's murder, so he went home to find his dictionary and after a while he found 'panda' and quickly read the definition...
Panda: 1. Ailuropoda melanoleuca, A black and white bear native to China. Eats shoots and leaves.

Happy weekend!

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TGIF Surf Like a dog

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 04:28:00 +0000

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What's your plan this weekend? I heard Sunday suppose to be very nice!!! Surfing like a dog is my plan!!!Check this funny dog-he can surf better than me....I'm still practicing it in my bath tub;)

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“It’s like the mafia. Once you’re in – your in. There’s no getting out”

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“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf”
Jon Kabat-Zinn

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“Surfing soothes me, it’s always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I’m on a wave.”
Paul Walker

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try taking off on the wrong wave. -Unknown

A surfer is surfing with a priest. While they are in the lineup trying to catch small waves the surfer tries, and misses, a two foot wave and says, "God dammit, I missed." The priest tells him not to use vulgar

language while surfing. Then on the next wave the surfer misses a three foot wave and says again, "God dammit, I missed." The priest tells him that if he continues to use vulgar language while surfing, he will have God strike him down with lightning and kill him. Then on the next wave the surfer misses on a four foot set wave and says, "God dammit, I missed." All of a sudden a tremendous bolt of lightning comes down and kills the priest! Immediately after, a voice comes out of the clouds and says, "God dammit, I missed."

What to say for the weekend? Enjoy, everyone!

xoxo