Thread: A nice cup of tea

^Classic looking serving set

I never could get the hang of dunking them rich teas. Guaranteed to break off like a calving iceberg.


Nice cup of tea sir?

Why I don't mind if I do

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Speaking of birds, we had a Jay giving one of our cats serious shit today, the squawk on those fuckers.

Noticed me glass jar of leaves was running low so just ordered another 500g bag.



Start with 4 teaspoons with 1 liter of mineral water in the big teapot, add some Chinese tea/herbs and jasmine. 2 big cups every morning.

Then add 3 teaspoons and top up with water the next morning. Repeat x 5 mornings.

Empty it out and start the process again once a week.


Tiz good stuff.

Bonnie flame-haired Lassie drapped in tae dine wie a bevvy of brews in tow.

This 1st one was Turmeric and Grapefruit. I sullied the herbal purity by sweetening mine with chemical aspartame.

The other ones she brought were also new to me. Peppermint and licorice and some organic berry brew.

She brought chocolate as a post-pizza digestiv, so I paired mine with the licorice tea. A rare treat when I have phased carbs out a bit in favour protein bars for snacks. My 3 aspartames are dissolving into the bag for extra sweetness.

It's Persian tea time

This stuff was proper spicy tasty and served in a glass as is the custom. I used a whole one of those sugar sticks in mine.

Her white dates were finished but she had a plate of black dates this time to sweeten my tooth.

And to complete the Persian immersion tea ceremony a box of Gaz, which is a kind of Persian nougat made from egg yolk with pistachio nuts in the middle.

They are packed in flour for shipping and serving.

Gaz (candy) - Wikipedia

She still had not got her curtains hung so I was careful to turn the lights out this time to save my modesty (and hers)

She knocked out a nosh up for the knockout second meal.

It has the roasted rice crust (Tahdig) again

Scorched rice - Wikipedia

But this time it is like a roasted rice pie filled with lamb and saffron called Tahchin

Tahchin - Wikipedia

For a side she had Gheymeh which is a Caspian dish (she being from the shores of the Caspian in Iran's north)

It is basically meat (lamb in this case) served with beans in a tomato sauce with slices of fried potato, that look suspiciously like chips - basically a kind of Persian Armstrong Friday dinner.

Gheimeh - Wikipedia

For a digestiv we had a kind of Persian milk shake made with bananas and saffron.

Her middle toe is almost as long as mine.

The stuff on the window ledge is black pepper which she says protects her bed from nocturnal encroachment from her plague of geckos

How lovely.


Helluva feast!

Originally Posted by Looper

This stuff was proper spicy tasty and served in a glass as is the custom.

Had a spot of Earl Grey myself yesterday afternoon, as it happens, without the Persian company unfortunately.

Good chow there. She knows the way to a man's heart.

Armo posted his wrapped xmas gift already, then 20 minutes later these arrive via Laza.



For the fam back home.

1. No need for the teabag. Boil them up and use a sieve.

2. They didn't sound too impressed last year when they got the same, and I got a few Mmmmms on the painful annual video call when they were mentioned... I suspect they're all still sitting, dusty, on back shelves somewhere, to be honest.


Still, they're cheap, easy to mail, and healthy. It's the thought that counts.

The Persian tea ceremony came to the forest on Sunday arvo when Persian tea lady brought belated birthday gifts of my very own tea pot with candle warmer

Accompanied by Persian walnut cookies

White dates in a jar and mysterious white kendal-mint cake style sweets in a jar

I was itching to fire up my tea set and we started with the Persian bergamot she brought

I even got a belated birthday cake - carrot cake - one of my faves

The last super-moon of 2024 peeked over the horizon as the embers settled down to BBQ level

The fancy marinade is all very well but to be honest I adore just basic snags smoky-grilled over wood on bread with tomato sauce and mustard.

The good lady chose to garnish hers with mayonnaise and black pepper just to keep things culturally exotic and strange and we served them on Persian Barbari bread that she had brought to make it a cultural fusion BBQ.

Nice pix as ever loopy did she enjoy the way you did the sausage, obviouly extra Mayo is for sensation seekers?

^I was so enamoured of my own bogan sauce and mustard smoky snags that I forgot to even ask to taste the exotic mayo and pepper option she had constructed but I will make a mental note to try it next time, out of cultural curiosity.

She has nice feet

Nice to catch up on your 'activities' Looper, that spread with tea looked amazing. What is that Arabic type cake called that your lady friend made you at her place? Looked delicious, I have had similar in a Moroccan restaurant.