The Tea for One

This may seem a little sad out of context. I am in fact supposed to be studying so I thought I'd indulge in some soothing and enjoyable tea, where that thought took me was to moroccan mint tea and then the entire production sort of snowballed into a post.

That being said, tea for one is really not as lonely as the title may indicate, as it was only meant to be an accompaniment to an activity that can for the most part only be undertaken successfully by one!

In any case, my tea for one...

 

The tea pot, or rather coffe pot to be precise, came from Sally Jenkins. The teapot that goes with it is still in the cupboard at mum's house. I assume she uses it fairly often. While I was studying at home I used it all the time. It's just nice to have a steady flow of tea that doesn't get cold that quickly and that you don't have to fill up every 10 minutes.  

Bringing over my 'tea set' was kind of amusing, as I put it all in my carry on. (I didn't really feel like putting silver that is so obviouse in my checked luggage.) The coffee pot, the sugar pot, the creamer, and a third small pot which I assume is for the used teabags, however I usually use it for the spoons, all came over in the carry on, wrapped in tea towels and wedged between books and a corian cutting board. (It wasn't really within regulation carry on weight, but no one weighed it.) Along with the menage was a ziplock filled with silver tea spoons. The spoons caught the eye of the xray man and he had to verify that there were no knives among them. So he opened the bag and looked through everything. Interestingly enough, it was the corian cutting board that caught his eye. And he took down the information on the back of it (Sol-Cor) so that he could show his wife, whom apparently wanted to redo her kitchen.

In any case, the first cup of tea was a little more like sugar water than tea, but while writing this post I have gone through about 3 cups and everyone had gotten better!

Green tea and fresh mint, how can you go wrong?