Wednesday, January 7, 2009

My morning ritual


Damn. Looks like more snow. More shovelling. More slush. More red noses and cold toes. 
Why not take the edge off like I do? With a mug of sweet tea: Orange pekoe steeped in the mug for no more than a minute, then spiked with milk and the best honey I can find. (My honey du jour is from Arlo's Honey Farm in Kelowna, BC.) 
It wakes me up, hits me in the brain and makes me smile every time. 

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Tetley? Typhoo? T? Name your brand, Amy.

Amy said...

Tetley, the round bags. I don't know if it's the best brand out there, but this way I don't have any strings or paper falling into the mug.

Anonymous said...

I hear you! This is my feel-good drink, too. I have consumed A LOT of this orange pekoe-goodness in the last month.

Anonymous said...

It's funny - I put honey in every other kind of tea, and I prefer brown sugar in my coffee, but with orange pekoe, I have to have white sugar and nothing but.

I think it's a food (or rather, drink) memory thing, as when I first started drinking tea, it was with about 7 teaspoons of white sugar, and while I limit myself to a teaspoon or so now, it still takes me back.