Just remember...Once you start that Roux,you don't walk away and keep an eye out for black specks which indicate burnt roux. Med Hi heat and persistence are the key. You'll build up a nice popeye arm makin roux.:)
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I miss Gumbo! I had it when I was in N'Orleans (along wih several other southern type foods) and it was all just sooooooo good! :)
Mick
Well then............yer in luck. I was the Mardi gras chef at my bar for 7 years. I can teach ya dirty rice,etoufee,gumbo,jambalaya all that good shtuff !:)
Be right over! :)
Mick
Hmmmm that sounds familiar ???:hmmm:
Hmm. We only have PG Tips at work so I usually keep a small stash of something more exciting in my drawer, except that I seem to have run out...
i have been looking for a better way to brew tea at work, i have a small press pot that works good, but i would like to find something else, so as i don't have to drag as much stuff with me. any ideas friends
I'm toying with the idea of getting some powdered sencha. Good quality tea without the brewing hassle!
Besides, I'd probably look like a bit of a twat if I took in loose leaf tea and a tiny, tiny teapot to brew tea at the office.
One alternative of the kungfu tea brewing method on the workplace:
i actually have one of those i use specifically for pu erh, just picked up some teas today to try, will post when i get back home. pics will be included
I think it is feel free to use with other teas. (oolong, red...)
B.
oh i know, i find it easier to use the press pot for most of my loose teas, the pu erh works better in that due to the fact you can do the multiple infusions
I'd like to take a second to thank the people who visit this thread!! When I first got interested in tea, I knew about tea. It was made of dried leaves, it comes in bags and you can get it loose, but then need a strainer of sorts. Since then, I've come to learn that there is a World more than that, and, through some of your suggestions and help, have really come to love the wonderful variations available to me!
So, Thanks gang!! But, I must add, with this new-found knowledge comes special new problems!! Right now I can't decide on which tea to start my day with!! I now have too many choices and the confidence to know they can be brewed and enjoyed by me!!
and brother i feel ya on the to many choices issue, that is my problem every day, heck,with every pot. and every time i go to the local tea shops it gets worse. plan is to go to a shop in Cumberland MD in a few weeks with my daughter so there will be more tea to choose from
A small teapot maybe? I use bag tea at work. We have a coffeemaker at work and only two of us use it and we are tea drinkers.The maker produces water hot enough for brewing and you can make it by the cup or in the carafe. Works great. I think you're makin it harder than it has to be though.Either a simple small pot and strainer or bag tea. Save the elaborate stuff for home. Just sayin man. Is their somewhere at work you could store a waterboiler ?
have a water pot i purchased especially for that purpose there, just picked up some bagged tea today to try, so that may be the way i will go, will let y'all know.
I was just about to suggest teabags as the way to go. I'm surprised you don't have an Urn at work. I don't think I've worked too many places (office type enviroment) that didn't. I've done many a job that required a Thermos as well,but tea doesn't taste so good towards the end of the day with them.
So, your avatar is nothing to go by then?! :p
After facing down the wonderful problem of having to decide which tea to start my day with, I went with the good old Earl. Brewed some up in my new little pot, filled up my travel cup and drove uptown to see my friend at his gas station. That was going to be my late morning. After, my son showing up, me going to pick up lunch for the three of us, getting a call from my daughter and riding with her on a 240 mile round trip; I came back home. And realised my halfa pot of Earl Grey was still waiting for me. So, I threw it over some ice, added more cold water and a couple lumps of sugar. I had never had recycled Earl Gray iced before, but sure look forward to having more!!
One more thing, I was glad and proud of my daughter asking me to go with her. She hadn't driven up there before, Redding Ca, and she also didn't think it would be smart to meet a stranger to buy some car rims. I'm glad I raised her smart, and I'm glad she isn't bothered to be seen with the old man!!
well today i had my first glass of Ahmad cardamom, and i like it, tomorrow i will try the alokozay black tea
I keep bagged tea in my lunchkit,plus a container of either honey or sugar(currently sugar) .And,since we have a small dorm fridge in the back,I bring a small acrylic bottle full of milk sometimes too. You should hunt down a small stainlees teapot for work. Stays good n hot for a long time if you throw a small towel over n around it. a small bar towel is very compact and light weight. The pot will be good n durable as well and can take the rigors of going back n forth to work and being tossed around and all. Also...depending on how proud ya are, you could pack powdered creamer for travel cream. lasts forever. We are talkin work survival here after all. I've done it a few times back in the day. Keep us posted on how things work out.:)
well i don't put anything in my tea, and as from a travel pot at work that would not look pretty after a period considering what i do and the conditions i work in. but with thebtea bags i should be a bit better
Hmmmm...well, I don't know what ya do actually ??? But might these help as ideas ?:)http://www.rei.com/category/5760753
I may actually think about one of these for myself ? I like Macgyver thinking. :)
It's all relative. Perhaps I should have said 'more of a twat' but you know, I can't help the way I look!Quote:
So, your avatar is nothing to go by then?! :p
I picked up a couple of tea bags for today! Hooray!
Yeah, a couple of those are kinda cool. Have you seen any of the old skool GI mess kits lately? I remember the clamshell looking thing, one side a single compartment the other side divided, but there seemed to be a deep container as well. I don't know, I'm tending to gravitate towards a Mick inspired Billy can. I have enjoyed more than a couple hot dogs cooked with a cutting torch using a rose bud tip, I think a billy can is fancy enough for me! But, I guess if you don't have a Oxygen Acetylene torch available at work, or a billy can, those will do.
Gosh darn it!! Now I find another item I need to keep in my rig!! Does anyone know if there was another one that was deeper? Perhaps British military and not U.S.?
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Check out Teavana and the Majaraja Oolong Tea, amazing.
A lunch time treat for me! Some Pearl Jasmine and some Pink Floyd on youtube! Wish you were here!
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The Australian mess kit might be a bit deeper than that Don. It was just two rectangular containers, one smaller than the other to fit inside, and both with folding handles. I'll dig mine out later and take a photo if I can.
Mick
Eric (The Tea Garage) my friend fom Belgium in Budapest
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Visiting in the Anna's "Flying Bird Tea House"
ok, as promised this was yesterday's tea purchases. the tea glads on the left is the my glass to show the one that is going to nosey in Iowa. the other 2 are the mugs that came with the alokozay tea. its not to bad a tea, but unless im wrong i cannot taste much difference between it and Lipton.
I need to try another tea....On my 2nd box of PG-Tips (good stuff ) just looking For another one ...what do you recommend ??
well, nessmuck, i dont know what you have around you, but if you can find either a european market of a middle eastern market, there are 2 great places to get some tea that wont be overly expensive, but still very good, if not, and you want to try a different tea, shoot me a pm, and i will send you some samples of what i have to test drive/kick the tires on before you buy.
Darn it!!! I just realised I had access to some fresh mountain spring water today, and I didn't even think to get some to bring home to make tea with!!! Oh well, it will be there next time I go!!
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hey cool Don, mtn spring water makes good tea
I'll shortly be opening that Miyazaki San Nen bancha...pics to come.