by Shannon on January 22, 2010

TweetToday I am sipping on American Tea Room’s Midori Sencha, appropriately enough in my steep tea cup. Well perhaps not completely so because the cup shows a teabag, but I love it. This blended tea is a lovely green loose tea flavored with melon and a number of flowers. It is my first time trying [...]
by Shannon on November 12, 2009

TweetWhile there are some tea bags in our tea cabinet, the majority is loose teas. I find that they have a far superior flavor to tea made from a teabag. We have everything from a gundpowder green tea flavored with almond slices to a rooibos with red currants and blue mallow blossoms. Loose teas can [...]
by Shannon on November 3, 2009

TweetGrowing up, I was never really a tea drinker. My parents were more into coffee, so it wasn’t really something we had around the house. About 10 years ago, my husband’s aunt gifted us a teapot and some loose leaf tea for Christmas. It all got placed on a shelf somewhere and we forgot about [...]