What is in your cup?

[Rainmaker]

Mate, and toasts with Dulce de Leche.
Has anyone here tryed Dulce de leche? (the english for "dulce de leche" would be something like "caramel milk" or something like that; its heated milk with sugar; its really sweet and has the texture of something in between "peanut butter" and "honey")

[orlok]

Originally Posted by Rainmaker

Mate, and toasts with Dulce de Leche.
Has anyone here tryed Dulce de leche? (the english for "dulce de leche" would be something like "caramel milk" or something like that; its heated milk with sugar; its really sweet and has the texture of something in between "peanut butter" and "honey")

No, but it sounds interesting.

For me, it's an Australian Red

[beppe]

Originally Posted by Rainmaker

Mate, and toasts with Dulce de Leche.
Has anyone here tryed Dulce de leche? (the english for "dulce de leche" would be something like "caramel milk" or something like that; its heated milk with sugar; its really sweet and has the texture of something in between "peanut butter" and "honey")

It is condensed milk, heated in the original can, for a couple of hours. If you want to pick up those nice love handles in no time it is really effective. As a bonus you get also a unique, far out grin, fast teeth decay and few other goodies.

[astra]

Originally Posted by beppe

It is condensed milk, heated in the original can, for a couple of hours. If you want to pick up those nice love handles in no time it is really effective. As a bonus you get also a unique, far out grin, fast teeth decay and few other goodies.

Cuppa #10

Milk oolong............................

[orlok]

Originally Posted by beppe

It is condensed milk, heated in the original can, for a couple of hours. If you want to pick up those nice love handles in no time it is really effective. As a bonus you get also a unique, far out grin, fast teeth decay and few other goodies.

Condensed Milk! I used to live for that stuff, but haven't tried it for years. I wish Rainmaker had never mentioned it...

[CWatkinsNash]

Cheerwine over ice.

[astra]

Originally Posted by orlok

Condensed Milk! I used to live for that stuff, but haven't tried it for years....

It used to be on my top 5 favourites till age of 18 I think.
We could not buy it anywhere. My dad used to get 10-11 tins per year through some odd ways and I was allowed to open one every 5-6 weeks, because some of it went for cooking...I loved it so much! One of my posh classmates had them in plenty and I remember envying him, because he would just make two holes in the top of the tin and drink it like water....I could have only a few tsps per day
Oh, childhood...

I guess I better make a cup #11 of tisane - Lapacho and go to bed.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by astra

It used to be on my top 5 favourites till age of 18 I think.
We could not buy it anywhere. My dad used to get 10-11 tins per year through some odd ways and I was allowed to open one every 5-6 weeks, because some of it went for cooking...I loved it so much! One of my posh classmates had them in plenty and I remember envying him, because he would just make two holes in the top of the tin and drink it like water....I could have only a few tsps per day
Oh, childhood...

Ha. That's so close to my own experience it's uncanny. Rationed condensed milk .

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by astra

I typed as you say, because that is what is written on the tea package, then googled it and the very first link was Tieguanyin, so I assumed I was wrong
Thanks for enlightening
Apparently, I have drunk The Taiwan Mucha Iron Goddess Tea only and haven't tried The Chinese Anxi Iron Goddess Tea unless Bao Zhong falls into this category.
Or maybe I got confused with all the names and am lost

Not 'wrong' at all. The problem lies with trying to use the ABC's to express Chinese characters. Then add in the different ways those same ABC's can be pronounced in various languages;
Tee, Tea, Ti, Te,
Kuan, qian, guan, etc., etc.

They are all correct!


Stitchawl

[Stitchawl]

Ah! I love the colorful clothes she wears
And the way the sunlight plays upon her hair
Ah! I hear the sound of a gentle word
On the wind that lifts her perfume through the air

I'm pickin' up good vibrations
She's givin' me the excitations
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
(Good, good, good, good vibrations)
She's givin' me the excitations
(Good, good, good, excitations)
Good, good, good, good vibrations

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCeD_...eature=related )

Happy Tuesday, everyone! It's a good day to be alive! Good, good, good, good vibrations! Today begins with a mug of Taylors of Harrogate's Yorkshire Tea, a bowl of miso soup, rice, and tsukemono, but (and don't tell my wife) I think I'd rather have croissants today. But I've now lost 5.5 kilo so I guess passing on the pastry is a good thing.

ProfCrash's post about shaded tea is prompting me to go out and see if I can get some nice photos of this year's gardens. All too often the growers use really UGLY shading stuff and I've never really gotten a picture I like of the shaded plantations. Perhaps I should just shade the surviving twin and photograph her...

Stitchawl

[bjones6416]

Hmmm. Sweetened condensed milk? It was always in our cupboard because my mother made pies that used it, but I don't think I ever saw anybody drink it. I don't think I've ever even tasted it, except when used in pies or other desserts. Anybody else who grew up in the U.S. have the same experience?

(Of course, I was too busy eating what my father told me were "cinnamon rolls" -- margarine spread on white bread which was then sprinkled with sugar and rolled up. No cinnamon in it at all. )

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by bjones6416

Hmmm. Sweetened condensed milk? It was always in our cupboard because my mother made pies that used it, but I don't think I ever saw anybody drink it. I don't think I've ever even tasted it, except when used in pies or other desserts. Anybody else who grew up in the U.S. have the same experience?

(Of course, I was too busy eating what my father told me were "cinnamon rolls" -- margarine spread on white bread which was then sprinkled with sugar and rolled up. No cinnamon in it at all. )

I knew a guy who used to drink it right out of the can... I found even the thought revolting... until I actually tasted the stuff years later. After moving to Asia and discovering that it was the dairy product of choice for coffee and tea drinkers, and then tasting a dessert made with it poured over ripe fruit, my opinion changed quickly.

In roadside reststop restaurants in S.E.Asia, the workers prep for the busses by half filling glasses with sweetened condensed milk so when the busses unload for their quick breaks, customers just say 'coffee' or 'tea' and the workers grab a glass and pour in the requested drink. EVERYBODY drank it that way, and it was difficult to get the workers to understand that I wanted my tea without any! They looked at me like I had two heads!

Stitchawl

[maianhvk]

Originally Posted by beppe

As a bonus you get also a unique, far out grin, fast teeth decay and few other goodies.

you're so sarcastic

Originally Posted by bjones6416

I don't think I've ever even tasted it, except when used in pies or other desserts.

We Asians use condensed milk nearly everyday!
(I was exaggerating. I haven't used it for some months now, but still, other people here use it a lot.)

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

... until I actually tasted the stuff years later. After moving to Asia and discovering that it was the dairy product of choice for coffee and tea drinkers, and then tasting a dessert made with it poured over ripe fruit, my opinion changed quickly.

You're the man, Stitchawl! Condensed milk poured over dessert is crucial. I think you must've tasted Vietnamese milk coffee? Not so bad, right?

And the idea of condensed milk used in beverages to you Westerners is just as strange/weird/odd as using whipped cream / steamed milk in coffee and tea to us Asians When I first figured out that you put milk in tea I was like "What? That must be awful!"... until I tasted it, of course

[Latinandgreek]

"Cranberry" tea in my cup.

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by maianhvk

You're the man, Stitchawl! Condensed milk poured over dessert is crucial. I think you must've tasted Vietnamese milk coffee? Not so bad, right?

Sorry, Anh... Vietnamese milk coffee tastes HORRIBLE!! In all fairness, all coffee tastes horrible to me, even coffee ice cream.

When I first figured out that you put milk in tea I was like "What? That must be awful!"...

You were correct.
Tasting it only made you 'think' it was good. That's called 'Remote Brainwashing.' WPP Western Peer Pressure. The Brits tried that on us Colonials in the 1750's but we fought it off.
It was the French who did it to your country.

Stitchawl