Pu-er congee!! yes, that is what this reminds me of. Congee is an Asian (Chinese? Vietnamese?) porridge often consumed when one is sick or needs comforting. I usually get it with chicken and preserved egg. Yummy. So it seems natural that pu-erh, a digestive aid, should be combined with Congee!
For those who haven’t had congee before, picture cream of wheat with a ricey sortof taste.
The background is rather mild for a pu-er, I suppose the tea blender (Tao) chose that in case it overwhelmed the rice flavour.
By the time I got to my sixth steep though, I was still getting rice flavour, along with a mild sweet breadiness without the usual heft. Odd, tasting rice and bread at the same time.
Oh and the scent! a coworker of mine remarked that is smells like chicken soup. Funny, given that I likened it in my head to the Asian alternative version! ha!
Also, it must be a pu-er thing… I didn’t get hungry til more than an hour after I normally do. This happens to me every time make a cooked pu-er. Appetite control perhaps? I usually eat at 10:30am, so this could be useful for those days I need to save myself for lunch out with the girls! :P
and now I am sad that this was only a sample. One tuocha in the packet! and since I don’t own a pu-er pick I just plunked the whole thing down and went for shorter infusions. What a waste… I think it could have gone atleast three or four more times. Oh well!
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Sounds good. You can break them apart with your fingers too. I watched a Chinese man do that on a video.
I used to make congee for breakfast in my crockpot over night. It was awesome. Sometimes topped with fried apples or peaches for the kids, but my preference was always a savory sauce of ginger, green onion, soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, & toasted cashews! I’d alternate that with steel cut apple maple oats, & several other overnight porridges that were always there to greet us at the dawn, fragrant, steaming. All we had to do was open the crockpot & dig in!
Terri, I still make my steel cut oatmeal in a crockpot overnight that way then put it in containers for 1 and freeze them (makes enough for a couple of weeks if I do it right). I have to freeze daily doses or I’ll eat the whole thing!
mmmm congee. I miss my Chinese exboyfriend for that reason alone.
Bonnie- I tried!! but it was stuck. like glue!
TerriHarpLady/Bonnie- I looooove congee but never had it like that. Sounds amazing, and peaceful!!!
DaisyChubb-haha I miss one of my exes for the amazing food he cooked! and the sweet buns he brought me. oh yummmmm
Sounds good. You can break them apart with your fingers too. I watched a Chinese man do that on a video.
I used to make congee for breakfast in my crockpot over night. It was awesome. Sometimes topped with fried apples or peaches for the kids, but my preference was always a savory sauce of ginger, green onion, soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, & toasted cashews! I’d alternate that with steel cut apple maple oats, & several other overnight porridges that were always there to greet us at the dawn, fragrant, steaming. All we had to do was open the crockpot & dig in!
Terri, I still make my steel cut oatmeal in a crockpot overnight that way then put it in containers for 1 and freeze them (makes enough for a couple of weeks if I do it right). I have to freeze daily doses or I’ll eat the whole thing!
mmmm congee. I miss my Chinese exboyfriend for that reason alone.
Bonnie- I tried!! but it was stuck. like glue!
TerriHarpLady/Bonnie- I looooove congee but never had it like that. Sounds amazing, and peaceful!!!
DaisyChubb-haha I miss one of my exes for the amazing food he cooked! and the sweet buns he brought me. oh yummmmm