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After lunch, I took this as a hot tea and Monkey Chop as an iced latte back to the office with me…and by that I mean to the desk upstairs. It was nice and even as it cooled I enjoyed it. It was peachy and fruity and just a nice afternoon tea as I listened to did video training.
This was so good as an iced latte the first time I had it and then last night I made another and it is was overly woody and nutty. It got dumped. Weird how the two were so vastly different and the worst part is I didn’t keep track of my steeping parameters so I don’t know if I did anything different. Boo.
Today’s smoothie was strawberry, mango, peach and banana. I don’t pick the fruits, my sister does and then I’m left enough smoothie in the blender for me to doctor up with whatever matcha I want. Since today was the first time they used peach, I decided to highlight that flavor with this matcha.
Tbh I just used 1/2 tsp and I wasn’t actually expecting it to come out that strongly through all the fruit. So, I was super surprised when my first sip of smoothie was not just a whole lot of peach but copious cream notes as well. Like this matcha must be extremely strongly flavoured because it took over. The grassiness of the matcha came through one but mostly it’s the flavouring. It’s nice and I now look forward to trying this plain.
I loved this in the past but overtime I grew slightly tired of it because I had so much of it. Then Evol Ving Ness bought me a large amount of it and while I don’t reach for it often, tonight I pulled it out. I used it for an iced latte when I couldn’t find my tin of Candy Cane Crush. I was disappointed initially because I wanted mint but this ended up being really awesome. Nutty but with a whole lot of rich chocolate too. It was a nice reminder of why I loved this tea to begin with. Thank you Evol Ving Ness!
This was a tea lemonade from earlier. I was worried about the chamomile in this one but it ended up being a nice afternoon drink. It was hot outside and this was refreshing, mostly due to the lemonade, I think, but this added a sorta peach sweetness. It was nothing so unique that I’d need more of this but I’m less scared of it now than I was before. Also, check out the photo of this tea lemonade (with a sneaky surprise guest) here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBYsra2gkuG/?igshid=11sdvglymryxd
