<p>Pizzagirl, I had suggested pulling taffy, the better to keep fingers busy with sticky sweetness rather than with search engines. So far as I know, no other thread has taffy. (Get it here while the gettin’s good!)</p>
<p>It’s a little late in the season to make taffy, and I knew that would be a risk; there’s a reason why one makes taffy in the winter rather than in the summer. geek_mom was up to the challenge, however, brave woman that she is!</p>
<p>geek_mom, it really was the taffy snapping, not a camera! Please, don’t hem my sleeves!</p>
<p>Crullers are good with coffee. If one must have tea with them, I suggest (if one can put up with all the talking) Constant Comment.</p>
<p>I loooooooove Constant Comment. I started drinking that in college some…well some years ago. I have some in my pantry, but have not actually made a cup in months.</p>
<p>sunnyflorida, I love Constant Comment, too. I also like blackcurrant tea. The first was one my US History teacher in high school drank – I’d never heard of it before – and the first time I had the second, it was served to me in someone-worth-hobnobbing-with’s home (re: estate). She was very gracious, even to such riff-raff as I.</p>
<p>Blackcurrant tea? Is that sweet like blackberry tea? Yum. I was pretty upset when Bigelow discontinued blackberry tea from the Celestial Seasonings line… that was my favorite. I hoarded my last box of blackberry teabags for a couple of years, even took it with me during a job move.</p>
<p>Constant Comment is right up there, though! I do a very gauche thing with Constant Comment teabags – I stuff one in a room-temperature water bottle (usually not even Evian, but something more common) and shake it up for a nice weak tea with flavor but not much caffeine.</p>
<p>Gets me some weird looks at meetings. I’ve actually been asked where I live that has such dreadful tap water!</p>
<p>ohhhh geek-mom I hope we don’t have to call off the engagement. </p>
<p>I am the ultimate tea snob. I have oodles of tea rules and though I would still think you were amazingly brilliant funny and talented I must confess that I would look askance and hold a dainty hankie to my mouth were I to witness the scene described above. ;)</p>
<p>I take my tea seriously to the embarassment of most , I mean all, of my family. But while we are talking tea; Earl Grey and Constant Comment are my faves when I am slumming and using bags.</p>
<p>LIMom it is flavored with orange and clove. Yummy!!! errr when prepared correctly</p>
<p>Thanks, history. I had no idea about your tea habits…lol. But I have to admit, I’m not a fan of the fruity teas, so I probably wouldn’t care for Constant Comment - too bad, because I liked the name.</p>
<p>Historymom, you might get some serious tea-snobbery from our family. The children can only go to college near a Peets. Imagine our delight when we found one in Cambridge!</p>
<p>LIMom, actually it’s not fruity at all. It’s an orange pekoe tea. Spicy, not as in hot, but as in fall-morning, rainy-day warm, sort of like it’s flavored with mulling spices (but without the cinnamon). I’d suggest you try it once. It’s very nice.</p>
<p>historymom – Well, if it came to that, you could have them on Christmas Day and I’d graciously accept the Christmas Eve visit. But don’t write me off just yet. For you, I’ll put away the water bottles and pull out the Dragon’s Beard jasmine and Fragrant Peak oolong… loose leaf… brewed two cups at a time in my Chinese teapot with distilled water just off the boil, and served in stoneware cups without handles. Deal?</p>
<p>And I’ll serve it with the freshest, priciest Hostess Ho-Hos I can find. :D</p>
<p>LOL it is a deal…when the grandkids come I think we should both go to their house for the holidays. We will bring the tea ecoutrment’ (darn Italian I never know if I am spelling it right)</p>
<p>LIMom: I try to keep my pecadillos hidden ;)</p>
<p>Marinmom a child who insists on a college close to a Peets has to be related to me. :)</p>
<p>My tastebuds perked up when owlice mentioned crullers, which I have always spelled cruellers, and don’t see around much anymore. Especially at Dunkin Donuts which she also spelled with without their creative misspelling as Doughnuts, which is one of my D’s biggest pet peeves- the way DD spells it.</p>
<p>Now I think you need to spell it cruellers to hobnob with moi. </p>
<p>My H likes Constant Comment but it is not my preference :)</p>
<p>jackief, cruellers were first mentioned by someone else; I was just goin’ with the flow, or is it the floe? Regardless, I was a follower, not a leader, in the doughnut department.</p>
<p>I don’t know whether I can actually bring myself to type the Dunkin’ kind of doughnuts; doesn’t that make them “do,” as in "I do eat doughnuts, “nuts” instead? I couldn’t mess with something so yummy!</p>
<p>LIMOMOF2, yo! [Note to historymom: please avert your eyes; tea that is not loose about to be mentioned!] If you’d like me to send you sample teabags of Constant Comment and/or blackcurrant tea, let me know; would be happy to do so.</p>
<p>geek_mom, ditto on the blackcurrant. It’s quite nice, sweet only if you sweeten it. </p>
<p>Okay, people are coming over in an hour to dye eggs; I’ve boil (I hope sufficiently) 2.5 dozen, and people bring their own, too. The living room and dining room are vacuumed (thanks to spawn, who complained bitterly about having to do it), the veggies are cut and the German chocolate cake frosted, there’s ice for the sodas, and … dang. A drill on the piano bench and 28 tee-shirts (to be printed at a later date) stacked up next to it. The piano bench, I mean, not the drill. Maybe I should move those, hmmm? </p>
<p>And to go with it, I just found the most amazing chocolate bar at Cost Plus. Monbana 70% Dark Cocoa with cocoa bean chips. This will make up for the caffeine that you’re not getting when you drink tea instead of a double expresso.</p>
<p>I also like those endangered species chocolate bars, esp. the ones with the cat eyes on the wrappers. The chocolate is as good as the wrappers.</p>
<p>Yo back at you, Owlice - you are too, too kind - but I will just go investigate my mom’s tea cabinet and see if she has either of those teas first. Like history, my mom and my SIL are really into preparing tea properly and they both have a gazillion varieties of tea (SIL is British; not sure where my mom gets it from). Anyway, I’m taking care of my mom’s house while she’s on vacation, and I’m sure she won’t mind me hunting through her tea cabinet. Since both teas seem to be fairly well-known, she probably has some in there. If you’d care to send over some of that German Chocolate Cake, well, I’d love a slice. ;)</p>
<p>Have fun dying your eggs. We’ll be doing that tomorrow. No party though. We used to have egg-dying parties every year, but that’s when the kids were younger.</p>
If you’d care to send over some of that German Chocolate Cake, well, I’d love a slice. ;)</p>
We used to have egg-dying parties every year, but that’s when the kids were younger.</p>