Green with envy (Teapigs)

Posted on Nov 8, 2010 in Food Glorious Food (Recipes) | 1 comment

Green tea is just so bitter. Right?

It’s hard to drink no matter how darn good it is for us!  I have wished for so long that I could be a ‘health freak’ and gulp it with pleasure, knowing that from the inside out I am doing wonders for my body. But years and years of trying to drink the horrid, bitter, dirty green coloured liquid left me with great scepticism on trying yet another green tea.  Yet here I was about to try Teapigs Mao Feng Green Tea.  The teabag had been staring at me for days and eveytime I went to make a cup I would give it a dirty look and tell it, “not yet”,  I just wasn’t ready for another ‘bitter’ disappointment.

Drinking Green tea is just like eating vegies when we were kids.

Remember the times…?

Like the memories I have of being a kid, sitting at the dinner table an hour after everybody else left all because I didn’t like pumpkin.  Mum kept telling me how ‘good’ it was for me and how healthy it is and that “until you finish all of it, your not leaving the table”. Humpf!!  In the end, I would hold my nose and swallow the very cold pumpkin, as fast as I could. Just like holding your nose and swallowing the green tea, knowing its good for you and that’s it!  Only now, I love pumpkin! It is one of my favourite vegetables along with several other ‘good for me’ veggies.

That’s how it felt yesterday morning as I finally plucked up the courage to drink Teapigs Mao Feng Green Tea.  I want so much to be as healthy as I can.  It has never been more important as it has been since I gave birth to Pickles.  Now, the investment in my health is also hers.  And guess what?  Without going on about how delicate it is, how light green my cup turned (not dirty green) and how smooth it was.  I will just let you in on a great secret…

It was really, really nice.  And, I finished the cup – without holding my nose!

It still has that ‘green’ flavour that I need to get used to, but it was a pleasure to drink.  It was soft, subtle and I felt like I had a Jane Fonda workout in a cup; so healthy!

Go, get some, try it.  If you’ve tried to drink green tea before and hated it, and now if the word ‘green’ in relation to tea makes you shiver, don’t panic…the healthy green tea you will enjoy is here.   I am pleased to admit, I will be ordering more!

And the other delicacies I tried this week:

Winter red tea – Oh bring on Christmas!
Lemon and ginger tea – A new favourite of mine.  With so many other brand teas the ginger is just so overpowering that you feel like your chewing on the root.  I drank this tea because I was suffering a little heart burn and voila, 5 minutes after drinking the tea it was gone!
Pure lemongrass tea – mmmm, this was my downfall.  I love lemongrass, I love all things lemon, but this one for me was too strong.  The flavour was still soft, like most of Teapigs teas but this one and me just didn’t bond like the rest of us have.
Choc flake – OMG!!! How do you get chocolate, in a tea, without it being insipidly sweet and making you feel sick after drinking it.  Easy – try this tea.  I love my sweet teas after dinner in place of After Dinner Mints, teas like Rooibos and Caramel, or my black Tea2 tea, leaf infused with fudge (from Australia) and this one is just as good! I was so deliriously happy while drinking this tea. I am not a great chocolate eater, but I love the flavour of really good quality chocolate!  This tea is my chocolate bar in a cup and I don’t feel any guilt for my waistline while I drink it.  This tea left me in a delirious trance totally oblivious to my hubby sitting beside me calling “honey, hooooonnneeeeeeeyy” – “ha, sorry babe what” I responded.  ”You haven’t heard a thing” he said.  I had slipped into a sultry cup of Choc flake tea!!
and the Mao Feng Green – you know all about that!

I am starting to see a real commonality in Teapigs tea which is beginning to impress me very much.  All their teas are subtle (no bitterness), soft, yet very, very flavourful!  It’s like drinking the word ” CHILLAXING” in every cup.  You just enjoy every drop!

All I need now, is a fancy cup worthy of the tea!

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Tomorrow I am dedicating the entire day to the Matcha super power Green Tea.

Down the hatch!!