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Go go gadget matcha smoothie! Nothing quite so wonderful as coming home from the gym, finishing up my “ride home tea” and walking in the door to a sammiches made by my other half! Needed something to wash it down so I put together a quick cheesecake banana smoothie. Sooooo delicious! This might be even better than the caramel….maybe.

Mmmmmm après workout tea. Only downside? This is the last of my order from verdant so I’ll be needing to place another order with them sooner, rather than later so that I can restock this one. On that note, I’ll probably wait as I have some samples coming and then I can order any of those that I want more of as well. On the upside? I still have the chai left which is not quite the same but still spectacular in its own way.

I love the different notes in this tea…just brings a smile to my face every time I drink it.

I can’t say enough about the quality of Red Leaf Matcha. Their customer service is amazing, and their ability to capture the essence of flavours is amazing. They’re like the butiki teas of matcha for me at least! :)

The Pear matcha was a bit of a gamble for me. I LOVE pear, but rarely are companies able to capture the way pear tastes. I opted for the pear matcha as well, because not a lot of people had reviewed it and I was hoping to help Red Leaf in that way by promoting the other less popular flavours.

Cutting open the bag of matcha might just be one of my favourite parts of ordering from Red Leaf. I love the intense flavour that fills up the entire kitchen within minutes of opening it. I was a little worried when I got the first whiff of this matcha because it had a bit of an artificial smell to it. Into my tin the matcha went! I can’t imaging ever ordering matcha without the tins – I really love that Red Leaf provides these sorts of extras for purchase to make my life easier!

As I’ve said before, I’m not adventurous enough to have straight matcha – so a smoothie was in order! Mostly because I had a cheesecake latte earlier and wanted something cold to drink. Into the blender went some milk, the matcha, a frozen banana for that thicker smoothie and a bit of ice. I love how quickly everything comes together – i also really love watching the matcha froth up in the blender. As it poured into my glass, my better half commented on the ugly greeney brown colour the banana makes of the matcha. What he doesn’t know (because he won’t try them) is how delicious my smoothies are! I’m ok with that because it means more for me!

So how did the pear turn out? It’s not too shabby. There’s a bit of an artificial taste to it, but not so much that I didn’t enjoy this flavour. I’m looking forward to mixing the pear with some of the other flavours I plan to order as i LOVE fruit combos! Cherry Pear anyone? 
Thank you Red Leaf tea for making such great matcha!

My matcha was composed of the following:
Size : Small
Matcha Quality: Starter (Basic Grade)
Flavor: Robust
Storage : Add Small Metal Tin Container (Holds up to 45g)

Buy it here: http://www.redleaftea.com/matcha-tea/pear-matcha.html

Oh.My.God. Cheesecake Matcha..heaven in green powder form. So let me preface this review by saying that cheesecake is NOT my ultimate favourite dessert. It’s actually pretty hit and miss for me as sometimes it’s divine and other times it’s like eating custard. shudder I chose to give redleaf’s cheesecake matcha a try though, in part because the caramel matcha was so incredible but also because I thought I might have fun making cheesecake combinations as I order other flavours.
Once again, at first cut, it was an outpouring of gorgeous Cheesecake l smell! I was immediately hopeful that because of the creamy smell, it would prove to be a cheesecake flavour that I enjoyed. I shouldn’t have doubted Red Leaf. I love that I can fit all of my matcha into the little tins from Red Leaf – it’s great having uniform containers to house all my matcha!
I’m still not confident in my ability to prepare and enjoy straight matcha so I opted for a cheesecake matcha latte. I must have gotten better at preparing matcha because this time i was able to get a nice froth going in my bowl even though I’m likely using a whisk and bowl that are too big for this!
I added the warm milk to the matcha and was instantly pleased with the creamy cheesecakey smell that rose from the mug. I didn’t add any sweetener or other additions – just some warm milk and matcha. I wish i could capture how amazing this latte was. I pretty much started drinking it and before I knew it, I was holding an empty mug and frowning. What I love about the cheesecake flavour is that even though I opted for the robust flavouring, it’s not an in your face taste. I still get the matcha taste behind the cheesecake, but it’s blended so nicely. I’d be willing to try this on a delicate flavour as well some time…but then there’s also that whole red, black and white matcha! Soooo many choices!
Thank you Red Leaf tea for making such a wonderful Cheesecake flavoured matcha! I’m really looking forward to trying out many more of your flavors, and better yet, combining them for more tasting adventures! I’m fairly certain that once i review the Pear Matcha that I also picked up from Red Leaf, I’ll be making a caramel cheesecake latte to enjoy!

My matcha was composed of the following:
Size : Small
Matcha Quality: Starter (Basic Grade)
Flavor: Robust
Storage : Add Small Metal Tin Container (Holds up to 45g)
I also recommend that you get the container – the lid screws on and off which keeps your powder safe from spillage as well as fresh.

Buy it here: http://www.redleaftea.com/matcha-tea/cheesecake-matcha.html

Picked this one up in the morning hung to get a head start on waking up. My other half is home today, which is a rare thing since he works in retail. We’ve got friends coming over tonight for dinner and board games so we had to get up early to take care of laundry, pick up groceries, go to the post office, take our coin to the coin counting machine at BMO ( total plug here by the way for anyone in Canada…..BMo branches have coin counting machines that only take a percentage off IF it’s over 250$) and it takes about 30 secs for it to count a large amount of counts…AND you don’t need to bank with BMO to je them…) anyway so yeah…I needed a strong tea to get me going. It’ll be a long night tonight and I’ll need all the help I can get heh

Laoshan black is just the right start to things….rich malty chocolate taste. Th perfect complement to a wonderful morning with my other half over breakfast sammiches :)

It’s been a while since i’ve had this one and it’s a wonderful afternoon tea for this rainy day. It’s been dark outside here at work since about 11am so it’s felt like time to go home since then. It’s the kind of day where all i want is to curl up on the couch at home in my comfy clothes, watch a movie after dinner (of roast, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn on the cob) with a steaming cup of delicious wonderful tea….

I’m so sad since I’m almost out of this tea. I placed a recent order with Verdant but forgot to include another order of this tea. I’ll have to wait until I get back from vacation. I am just blown away by the many facets that one non flavoured tea can have.

So I promise there will be some NEW teas that I log on the weekend. This week has just been a bit crazy and all i’ve had time for this week is my smoothy when I wake up (and sometimes in the evening) and then my one little tumbler of black tea. If we had a tea place around the office that wasn’t timothy’s/timmy’s/second cup or startbucks maybe there would be some other variation. Ugh, but it’s not to be yet.

Today was a simple Caramel Banana smoothie and man was it tasty. I added a bit more matcha than normal to try and help kickstart my morning a bit. Not sure if it helped any but it was delicious! Now i’m trying to decide if i order more caramel while it’s on sale or hold off for more new flavours first heh.

Love this as my morning tea to chase the smoothie lol I really need to try more of stacy’s unflavoured teas – its just that her flavored teas are soooo delicious!

Yeah…so apparently I’m addicted to caramel matcha smoothies….had one this morning, and one this evening. While this morning was mango…this evening was berry! Straw, black, blue berries! I was going to make a caramel latte but the blender called to me :)