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3 Perfect Teas for Your Thanksgiving Feast
Last year I listed teas for your Thanksgiving holiday tea time and the year before that I wrote about starting your Thanksgiving plans with tea. So you’re probably wondering what three teas did I miss or are there new teas out there? Read on to find out! The key to serving teas with your Thanksgiving… Continue reading
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Tea Kettle Philosophy — Sibling Rivalry
The kettle is on (a recent survey showed that about 30% of regular tea drinkers use a kettle on the stove to heat water), the teapot is prepped, and my mind has some time once again to drift into reverie, tending toward the philosophic variety. The idea of sibling rivalry comes to mind, especially with… Continue reading
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5 Teas to Get You Through November
Hopefully, you survived another Halloween and are getting ready to face that annual family gathering with more delightful anticipation than dread. No matter if you’re planning a more traditional feast of turkey and the trimmings or something more unusual like General Tso’s Chicken, lasagna, or shish kebabs, you’ll want some lovely tea to wash them… Continue reading
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Carving Out a Perfect Halloween Tea Time
Carving pumpkins is certainly part of the Halloween tradition, but so is carving out a perfect Halloween tea time. Whether you’ll be passing out treats to those kids who come ringing the front doorbell bedecked in traditional and/or more modern costumes or whether you’ll be avoiding the whole crush of trick-or-treaters, a special tea time… Continue reading
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Boo! It’s a Scary Tea Time!
Hubby and I have a fairly low threshold when it comes to scary stuff. So have no fear, the scare factor here is pretty low. About a 1 on a scale of 1 to 10. In fact, it’s so not scary that it’s more on the cute side, as you can see in the photo… Continue reading
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It’s Not Too Early to Order Those Holiday Gift Baskets!
Yes, folks, the artificial Christmas trees are already on display for sale at various stores, right alongside the Halloween and Thanksgiving decorations. Sure, merchants are spurred by a sluggish economy and the need to move merchandise, but that’s not the only reason this greenery is popping up amongst fake pumpkins, huge inflatable ghouls and witches,… Continue reading
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5 Teas to Get You Through October
Pumpkins carved into scary, funny, or friendly designs and lit from within are a symbol of the month of October. But so are brilliantly hued tree leaves that shine against a bright blue Fall sky before they follow the wind and gather in piles on the ground. And then there are haystacks and farmers’ markets… Continue reading
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Are You Ready for the Holiday Tea Time Season?
Every year it seems as if that holiday season sneaks up on us, with each year getting faster and sneakier. By the time you’ve outfitted the kids for another school year, picked the perfect pumpkin to carve, and calculated the poundage of turkey needed to feed the number of relatives who’ll be gathered at your… Continue reading
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5 Fall Flavors to Spice Up Your Tea Time, Part 2
Part 1 of this article gave you flavors 1 and 2. Here are the other three flavors and some treats and teas made using them: 3 Pumpkin & Other Squashes A key member of the squash family, the pumpkin became a feature of All Hallows’ Eve which we now know as Halloween. Carved into scary… Continue reading
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Tea in Strange Places (and the Olympics) – Sochi
Like so many others I have to admit that I’d never heard of the Russian city known as Sochi until I found out that it would be hosting the Winter Olympics in 2014. Sochi is located in the far western region of the country, on the Black Sea. It’s notable for tea lovers because it… Continue reading
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