Herbal Teas

I'm a big tea drinker. Don't much care for coffee, but do like real cappuccino. I don't really like tea bags and much prefer the loose leaf tea. I drink mostly fruit tea, green tea, honeybush, and a variety of rooibos teas.

asks the lady who has never seen my tea cabinet (yes there is a cabinet in my kitchen devoted entirely to teas )

we have everything....apple cinnamon spice, green tea- REAL green tea from the Asian market, sugar plumb, peach, raspberry, chi's, earl gray, orange, russian spice (my mom's!!),chi,bluberry white, honeysuckle....oh my goodness too many to list anyone take a guess as to what i drink I prefer loose tea leaves as the quality to me seems better and the taste is more pure.

i love to add different things to my teas too!!! a slice of orange, a pinch of lime juice, a little cinnamon or sage (just a pinch!), sugar, honey...

oh yea....and the most important tea in our kitchen- Luzianne!!!!!!!! we have ice tea on tap at all times!!! Colin makes the best sweet tea you've ever tasted!!!!!!!!!!

Mmm... not sure what counts as "herbal" tea, I'm assuming it's anything that's not made with tea leaves from a Camellia sinensis plant. Then sure, I drink camomile, ginseng, citron (strange fruit, looks like a lumpy grapefruit and it's shredded into a gooey pulp that you mix with hot water, great for sore throat), oat/barley tea, roasted barley tea, oh and if you're out in the woods caught without any tea, pine needles make surprisingly good tea. Just grab a handful of needles and boil them with a cup of water. As you can expect it's pretty piney, almost a juniper berry taste.

Originally Posted by laureen227

i also have a 'tea cabinet'!

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that's awesome!!!!!!! I'm glad someone else understands the importance of having a tea cabinet in their home

Well, I don't have a whole cupboard but I have a whole shelf dedicated to my horde of teas and finally decided to start using some of it up instead of just having decaf or water or normal tea all of the time. My goal is to use up all of the tea that I currently have before going and buying any more!

If you haven't tried, you have to try the Asian teas! Ten-Ren is the best for this kind of stuff and the prices are super-reasonable, and if you want to splurge, you can buy the pricey loose leaf by the pound!! http://www.tenren.com/

There are a few Ten-Ren store around here b/c it's NYC, but it's definitely worth mail-ordering. I'm a Jasmine tea person, and high mountain oolong is awesome! At the store here, they make iced teas with these and they are amazing -- nothing like the bottled stuff! Flavors like plum green tea, litchi green tea, green apple green tea, starfruit black tea!! There's also some "black tea" (literally translated "red tea") that my mom picked up for me, and the leaves are so fragrant and sweet, even just sitting there unbrewed in the package!

Tiger you have WAY more then I do. I'll have to take a photo of my cute 3 drawer Tea House next time I take a bunch of Charlie pictures.

I have actually purchased celestial teas...but never tried them. I am not a tea person.. I was going to try them..but now they just sit in my cupboard

I love iced tea. Hubby likes hot teas so we get loose leaf teas so we can both enjoy it the way we want to. I have an iced tea maker and make the most wonderful cherry vanilla iced tea in the world. It comes from the Amana Colonies in Amana IA. I bought some on a whim once when we went there and now it's a regular in our house.
We also have1 licorice (strictly dh's I hate the taste), 2 chai (mine) 3 Roobios teas,1 Iron goddess tea,1 Phoenix Iron goddess,3 Oolong teas, 1 Herbal relaxing tea, 1 peppermint tea, 1 Assam Borengajuli tea, 1 Assum Dufflaughur gunpowder BPS tea, and regular Lipton tea. It's all kept in a large bowl(on the counter) painted like a grey tabby.
My goal is to drink it down before we get more too. We bought way to much for two people to drink.