Kia Ora from Aotearoa (Hello from New Zealand)
One night, sitting around the dinner table Joshua, my boyfriend, is exclaims, "Ok Nicole bring out your tea! She has such great tea mum and dad." Naturally, I take out my tea along with gaiwan and tray table. As everyone "ooo ahhhh" over my traveling tea ware we dig right in starting with some Oolong tea of course. Later, Josh's dad disappears, and then ten minutes later has several long, about half a foot, of green vines in his hand with green leafs dangling from them. He handed them to me, and I probably looked confused because he then smiled and said, "It's Lemon Verbana, you can make it into tea." I smell the raw leaves, and it reminds me of a sweet lemon. Yum!
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| My lovely boyfriend breaking up some Puerh for me. |
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| Josh's Mum and I enjoying some tea! |
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| Making a tisane |
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| Adding some leaves to the dehydrator. |
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| Drinking tea with a bunch of freaks! |
All in all, I didn't notice a taste difference between the raw leaves and the dehydrated ones. The raw leaves were a bit stronger than the dehydrated ones, so it made it an easy quick tisane to make (just go to the garden and pick it). Can't wait to try some iced tea recipes with this during the summer time!
