What is in your cup?

[astra]

Cuppa #3

Keemun

[aceflor]

Originally Posted by astra

According to the pictures, it is the green variety. Chinese tie guang yin

Long time ago I promised Stitchawl that I am going to read about oolong and create a mind map. It still remains a promise only:



Spot on Sir!
Obviously, I cannot speak for Stitchawl, but when I get tan and instead of looking like the proper Western European Jewish, I can easily be mistaken for the Proper Mexican, I retain the tan for a very looooong time. Now, you have giving me a food for thought. Tannins might be just right and the most plausible explanation of the phenomenon


It explains why I like Italian food.
I cannot stand this spice. I can loose appetite if I smell the caraway seeds.
About half a year ago we got a new stall once a week on a gourmet market. They sell ray bread (Ray Bread in the UK? ). A few varieties in fact. One of them looked like it has got raisins. I asked the seller whether it was ray bread with raisins and he said: Yeah, caravan raisin bread and I bought it. Imagine my surprise when I came home, unpacked it, cut off a couple of slices for my smarter part and myself and she asked me why I was frowning. With a genuine puzzlement on my face I said that it smelled like caraway seeds but it surely was impossible! So, I tried it and spat it out. I broke the slice into small pieces and what I found?!? Caraway seeds!

Spoiler:

Now, taking into account that my listening skill in English is quite lousy, I thought he said something like: Caravan raisin ray bread. I took it for a specific name of the bread, for example, like: German ray bread. Later, I realised that the chap said: Yeah, Caraway raisin bread.

Spoiler:

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Initially my wife refused to believe me when I said that I smelled it and then tasted the caraway seeds flavour. She argued that it tasted absolutely fine and I imagined the whole thing. Demonstrations of the seeds didn't help much.
On the next market day I went to the stall and asked the same question and READ the sign for it.
The week after that, I grabbed her (my smarter part) by the scruff of her tiny neck, drugged her to the stall on marked and I shoved the sign with the bread name into her ...into her.... showed the bread sign and timidly smiled

Meanwhile, white yoghurt and plums.

Gosh, I though you were getting kinky. At last. Then I opened the spoilers (3 of them, seriously ?).


What does a typical western european jewish person looks like ? I think that it is very difficult to tell.
Because I can have quickly a good tan, but never dark, just bronze but with freckles, and in the winter time I have a very fair skin, and the undertone is gold, not olive. If I am not careful with the sun, I burn.
My hair is brown, with an auburn tinge, eyes are light brown. People always think I am italian.
My brother on the contrary is strawberry blond with blue eyes (same set of parents). My son has light brown hair with brown eyes and a very, very fair skin. My daughter is blond with brown eyes with my skin color.

[astra]

Originally Posted by aceflor

What does a typical western european jewish person looks like ? I think that it is very difficult to tell.

Really?



or



even better

Spoiler:

This is what happens when one typical is tanned



Looks like Mediterranean type. Whitish Italians before beach and Puerto Rican after....

Dunno

[CRussel]

Having trouble getting started today. Should be writing, not posting here.

Glass of local, organic, apple juice. Maybe sugar will help, caffeine from the mug of Major Dickason's certainly didn't.

[ProfCrash]

Rooibos Cream Caramel this morning. Two pots of Milk Oolong. Some else soon.

Gotta love it when IT wipes out a program that 3/4 of the people in the building need in order to do their jobs and then complain when you call on a regular basis to get the thing reinstalled. (sigh)

[aceflor]

Originally Posted by astra

Really?



or



even better

Spoiler:

This is what happens when one typical is tanned



Looks like Mediterranean type. Whitish Italians before beach and Puerto Rican after....

Dunno

Seriously? they all look much more sepharad than ashkenaz to me !

[beppe]

Originally Posted by aceflor

Seriously? they all look much more sepharad than ashkenaz to me !

Garfunkel like? Or Bob Dylan?

[aceflor]

Originally Posted by beppe

Garfunkel like? Or Bob Dylan?

Don't get me started on Garfunkel, I have a major crush on him. MAJOR. I think he is totally, utterly sexy.


Other very sexy guys imo:
Yvan Attal
Unax Ugalde
Paul Bettany
Viggo Mortensen

As you can see, I have a strange and eclectic taste. I don't go for the plastic perfection, which I find terribly boring (been there, done that, literally speaking ), but I find interesting... well, very interesting. Keanu Reeves makes the list too, but not in his Matrix time, too perfect. Now, he is "à point" as we french say.

[CRussel]

Doing better after a cup of Peets Pride of Port blend. This has become my favourite basic "cuppa" blend. Good enough to relax with, but doesn't require me to pay attention, either. Not overly astringent, it can handle milk, which my wife prefers, or do without, as I prefer. Couple of biscuits, a cuppa, and a 15 minute break is positively rejuvinating.

[maianhvk]

Originally Posted by aceflor

Don't get me started on Garfunkel, I have a major crush on him. MAJOR. I think he is totally, utterly sexy.


Other very sexy guys imo:
Yvan Attal
Unax Ugalde
Paul Bettany
Viggo Mortensen

As you can see, I have a strange and eclectic taste. I don't go for the plastic perfection, which I find terribly boring (been there, done that, literally speaking ), but I find interesting... well, very interesting. Keanu Reeves makes the list too, but not in his Matrix time, too perfect. Now, he is "à point" as we french say.

I only recognize Paul Bettany in the list, agree with you about him being "sexy". And so is Reeves (I had a huge crush when Speed was out in 1994. I was 2 at the time, I think )

But noboby here (classmates + family) agrees with me. They'll be like, "What? The Matrix dude looks dumb in other movies! And who is this Bettany??"

[HomeInMyShoes]

Originally Posted by beppe

I use spices sparcely - that it is why they needed a turn over. Traditionally in my family they used black and white pepper, nutmeg, clove and cinnamon, as spices. Then I learned by myself to use coriander and star anise. My NY belle made me know curcuma, among other things. My Quebec wife taught me to use sariette, that is savory, and to mix decent Bloody Marys, that is what the celery seeds are for. I learned by myself to add a pinch of curry to the roast sauce.

Lucky you. We get fennel (i actually have my own seeds from the garden), kummel, but no cumin. I have caraway seeds. But cumin I cannot get it.

Maybe if I try in an ethnic shop. But there are none near by and none on my route to work.

You'll find cumin seeds in any Indian food store. Ground cumin is everywhere in Canada. Newfoundland savory is very good. My wife had a friend in Montreal who's mom imported it from Newfoundland.

[aceflor]

Where is Stitch ? At this hour he should have posted.....

[beppe]

Originally Posted by aceflor

Where is Stitch ? At this hour he should have posted.....

washing his hands?
powdering his nose?

good morning.
Is your husband in? my wife is. Big girl arrived yesterday night late, loaded with gifts.

[beppe]

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

You'll find cumin seeds in any Indian food store. Ground cumin is everywhere in Canada. Newfoundland savory is very good. My wife had a friend in Montreal who's mom imported it from Newfoundland.

Thank you. i am sure. but none of those around here , and in Milano none of them near my route to work. So, it will come to me one way or the other. Cumin, both seeds and some ground.

I grow my own sariette, that is savory. Of that I have a nice reserve.
Niuff Niuff.

[beppe]

Originally Posted by aceflor

Where is Stitch ? At this hour he should have posted.....

i got a visitor message at 4 this morning.