Hello again, Fruncoki readers! I'm trying to get these back on a regular weekend update schedule, so here's to trying for a Sunday post.
This entry is a bit of a gear switch, as I won't be talking about food. Instead, this post is about my favorite beverage that encompasses a gigantic range of different kinds, that is also potentially healthy for you, very frugal, and excellently delicious - tea! This next statement is obviously hyperbolic in nature but might as well be true. The possibilities with tea are pretty much endless.
Also won't be pictures, because I'm lazy and tea is really easy. If using teabags, even easier. Take water, boil, let sit for about a minute, pour onto teabag that is in mug, add whatever you want that seems like a good idea. If not using teabags (in which case you probably know how to do this already, but for completion's sake), put tea leaves into strainer, boil water, let sit for about a minute, pour onto tea leaves, let steep for some amount of time dependent on the tea but pretty generally around a minute to a minute and a half, but only thirty-seconds for green tea.
That's all you need to have yourself some tea. Good things to add include sugar, honey, cream, more tea - which works especially well with, say, herbal teas you've already used, just add a different kind and add more hot water, so excellent - cocoa powder (not much though!), cinnamon, cayenne pepper (again, not much), vanilla flavoring (I usually do this when I make pitcherfuls of tea with six teabags, a couple tablespoons of sugar and about a teaspoon of flavoring, ends up really good), pretty much anything you can think of has a chance of tasting good in tea.
Generally for black, jasmine, oolong and green tea I just drink them straight, but sometimes I'll add a bit of milk or lemon juice to my black tea. I almost refuse to drink any other kinds without adding honey, though, partly because it feels better for my throat when I'm sick which is usually when I drink other teas, and mostly just because it's so damn tasty. It's kind of ridiculous how a tablespoon of honey changes a mug of herbal tea.
As far as making it and what you can do with tea, that's about it. Now, the pertinent question is, why should you drink tea other than for its taste? For one thing, it's actually rather cheap - I drink a metric fuckton of tea and I haven't had to buy any new tea for at least two months. This is partly due to the fact I have no less than ten containers of tea in my kitchen (most of which are boxes of bags, but whatever) and like to mix it up a lot, but still. For someone who drinks far less tea than I do, restoration periods will probably be about the same length for like, a big loose leaf thing of black or something (I highly recommend loose leaf where possible, teabags are basically packaged, low-quality dust that comes from loose leaf stuff, and is thus weaker and has a different taste), or if you, like me, have an iron stomach and are able to handle just about anything, you can buy a 100ct of Lipton's black for less than five bucks, probably less than three usually.
Another reason is for the caffeine content. Some teas are pretty low in this regard, like white tea, but black, green and other non-herbal teas have an amount on par with sodas most of the time. I would go on a bit of a tirade on why caffeine is basically a legal form of crack with severely reduced withdrawal symptoms, but if you're reading this, you're probably in college, so you know anyway. And shame on you if you drink decaf tea, that's just grody.
That's all I have for this post. If you want to know more, feel free to drop me a message or a comment and I'd be happy to expand on anything I can, or find you a reliable site that does it better than I could, and thanks for reading!
This entry is a bit of a gear switch, as I won't be talking about food. Instead, this post is about my favorite beverage that encompasses a gigantic range of different kinds, that is also potentially healthy for you, very frugal, and excellently delicious - tea! This next statement is obviously hyperbolic in nature but might as well be true. The possibilities with tea are pretty much endless.
Also won't be pictures, because I'm lazy and tea is really easy. If using teabags, even easier. Take water, boil, let sit for about a minute, pour onto teabag that is in mug, add whatever you want that seems like a good idea. If not using teabags (in which case you probably know how to do this already, but for completion's sake), put tea leaves into strainer, boil water, let sit for about a minute, pour onto tea leaves, let steep for some amount of time dependent on the tea but pretty generally around a minute to a minute and a half, but only thirty-seconds for green tea.
That's all you need to have yourself some tea. Good things to add include sugar, honey, cream, more tea - which works especially well with, say, herbal teas you've already used, just add a different kind and add more hot water, so excellent - cocoa powder (not much though!), cinnamon, cayenne pepper (again, not much), vanilla flavoring (I usually do this when I make pitcherfuls of tea with six teabags, a couple tablespoons of sugar and about a teaspoon of flavoring, ends up really good), pretty much anything you can think of has a chance of tasting good in tea.
Generally for black, jasmine, oolong and green tea I just drink them straight, but sometimes I'll add a bit of milk or lemon juice to my black tea. I almost refuse to drink any other kinds without adding honey, though, partly because it feels better for my throat when I'm sick which is usually when I drink other teas, and mostly just because it's so damn tasty. It's kind of ridiculous how a tablespoon of honey changes a mug of herbal tea.
As far as making it and what you can do with tea, that's about it. Now, the pertinent question is, why should you drink tea other than for its taste? For one thing, it's actually rather cheap - I drink a metric fuckton of tea and I haven't had to buy any new tea for at least two months. This is partly due to the fact I have no less than ten containers of tea in my kitchen (most of which are boxes of bags, but whatever) and like to mix it up a lot, but still. For someone who drinks far less tea than I do, restoration periods will probably be about the same length for like, a big loose leaf thing of black or something (I highly recommend loose leaf where possible, teabags are basically packaged, low-quality dust that comes from loose leaf stuff, and is thus weaker and has a different taste), or if you, like me, have an iron stomach and are able to handle just about anything, you can buy a 100ct of Lipton's black for less than five bucks, probably less than three usually.
Another reason is for the caffeine content. Some teas are pretty low in this regard, like white tea, but black, green and other non-herbal teas have an amount on par with sodas most of the time. I would go on a bit of a tirade on why caffeine is basically a legal form of crack with severely reduced withdrawal symptoms, but if you're reading this, you're probably in college, so you know anyway. And shame on you if you drink decaf tea, that's just grody.
That's all I have for this post. If you want to know more, feel free to drop me a message or a comment and I'd be happy to expand on anything I can, or find you a reliable site that does it better than I could, and thanks for reading!
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