Turkey, Wine, and the Original Social Networking Tool!

For New Years Day I decided we should roast a turkey.  The supermarket had a huge sale on utility turkeys -- only 79 cents per pound.   We brined that sucker (recipe to follow at the end) and noticed, when we were about to throw it on the barbecue rotisserie, that there were no wings.  We got a flightless bird.  Our neighbours, Rob and Cindy, hit the same sale. Their utility turkey had no legs! A lame bird! Still. For 79 cents per pound? No complaints.

Kitchen Organising, Tea, Tea, and More Tea

I took the liberty of doing a bit of cleaning up and organising in my kitchen. It had been bothering me for sometime, but I finally got it done.

The tupperware got sorted into "We use this" and "We never use this" and we are hoping to offload it onto someone who will appreciate it.

The pantry got organised: canned food, sauces, grains, baking, and spaghetti.

Finally, I moved all my tea onto three shelves.   Yes, three shelves.

Not pictured: the lower shelf with the Timothy's gift box teas.

I have bagged tea, loose tea, old tea, new tea. One tea, two tea, red tea, blue tea.

Loose teas:

Steepers:
2 blossoming teas
1 Chinese Green Tea (the packaging is all in Chinese so I can't give anymore detail than that)
Full Monty Mango
White Swiss Truffle
Sencha Kyoto Cherry Rose
Organic Jade Green
Pumpkin Spice

Teaopia:
Spring Morning
Organic Raspberry Leaf
Ice Age
Masala Chai

Davids Tea:
Midsummer Night's Dream
Coco-chai
Bear Trap
Organic Detox

Boxed Tea:
Fireside Orange Spice
Orange Pekoe
Orange Pekoe with Strawberry
Two kinds of Peppermint
Apple Cinnamon
Sisters Blend Green
Tetley Earl Grey
Bengal Spice
Bedtime Tea
Apple Mango
Caramel Orange
Camoumille
Ginseng Lemon

Timothy's Tea:
Green (x 2)
English Breakfast
Peppermint
Earl Grey
Lemon Blueberry
Timothy's Private Blend
Vanilla
Organic Pomegranate White


And I think that's it.  Ramona Flowers, eat your heart out.

Tea

Today's tea: Spring Morning

One of the first loose teas I ever bought.  I've been slightly obsessed with loose teas for a little over a year, now, and don't regret it at all.

My favourite places to buy loose tea are Teaopia and David's Tea.  This particular tea is from Teaopia.

The steeped product is a clear, golden colour. There isn't a whole lot of residue left in the cup. (I use a mesh teaball or my super high end tea travel mug to make my tea)

I steep my green tea for three minutes to ensure it's strong enough.  This particular flavour is sweet and strong and aromatic.  There are whimsical little bits of fruit and such in the tea which helps give it the strong berryish smell.  Sadly, I'm at the end of my tea tin so I can't steep any fruit pieces, but the entire tin, even without the fruit pieces, smells amazing.

Because green tea has caffeine, I make sure to drink it early in the day because caffeine does funky things to me.

Anyway. Spring Morning. Super good. Try it.