So, I’ll start this out with a disclaimer: Adagio contacted me and offered to give me some tea for free if I would review it on Twitter. I am not one to turn down free tea, and I already buy tea from Adagio more or less regularly. And they’re the home of the Imperial Radch […]
Hey, there’s some stressful and depressing shit going down lately. Let’s talk about something pleasant and stress-reducing! Well, okay, so being super picky about making tea may be stress-INducing for some. If so, no worries. I have one, firm position on how to make the best cup of tea: the best cup of tea is […]
I am cleaning and organizing my tea cupboard because SHUT UP I DON’T HAVE A NOVEL TO WRITE YOU HAVE A NOVEL TO WRITE that’s why. Also, it had gotten to be quite a disorganized mess and I wasn’t sure what I still had. (Yes, the cats are up next, just gotta remember where I […]
So, the other day I tweeted that I was in possession of some Instant Yak Butter Tea. So, yak butter tea. It’s a Tibetan thing. I’ve actually attempted to make something approximating it before, only with cow’s milk, since that was all I could get my hands on. I did have a cake of pu […]
Y’all. This pie. There’s just…it’s…I mean… Look at the recipe. I mean, really look at it. It calls for a cup of double strength tea, okay. So far so good. Two cups of sugar. You know that super sweet custard, for the Rum Cream pie? It took one whole cup of sugar. Right. On with […]
Perhaps you recall the events of last week, wherein I found myself obliged to find an Ancillary Sword Pie recipe. This week, I set out to test some pie recipes, and perhaps alter them to suit. And for my first experiment, I tried a recipe from Lipton they call “Luscious Chocolate Tea Pie.” Here’s the […]
If you’ve read Ancillary Justice, you know that tea is very important to the Radchaai. As it happens, tea is also important to the events of Ancillary Sword, and not just because it takes place firmly inside Radch space. It so happens that Athoek System has a planet where tea is grown, so tea is […]
So, do you love tea? More importantly, have you felt a strong desire to drink Ancillary Justice-themed tea? Now you can! Click on over to Adagio Teas, where I’ve made three novel-related blends: Justice is a green tea–the main component is kukicha, with a bit of cucumber white and some coconut. If you’re not a […]
Well, this post is way overdue, sorry! I’ve been reading things, some of which pleased me greatly, and I want to share those titles with you! First off, just to make you all jealous, I’ve read Martha Wells’ Network Effect–you know, the Murderbot novel that’s not out till next May? Yeah, that one. When Murderbot’s […]
For various reasons, which I won’t go into here, I haven’t been blogging much, or tweeting much, or tumbling much. Sorry! I have been doing things, though. I’ve read some books! And I recommend these particular ones to your attention. Finder by Suzanne Palmer Fergus Ferguson has been called a lot of names: thief, con […]