I found this recipe tucked away on a card in my recipe box, and recently traced it back to an old issue of Vegetarian Times. I can take no credit of my own for it, but I swear it is the best ’slaw you’ll ever taste. A more accurate name for it is: [...]
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I am a woman with curves. I have nothing against my voluptuous hourglass figure, except that as a newbie seamster, I have such a hard time getting home-sewn garments to fit correctly with the first or second attempts. So, with the huz’s help, we created a duct tape dress form. It was [...]
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I can confidently say that I now consume more tea than water. Most of the time I brew up a variety of Japanese and Chinese green teas to suit my mood, but every now and then I crave something a little different. On those occasions I break out my gong fu teapot and [...]
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Tea and Buddhism share much of the same beginnings, spreading in popularity together around 700 AD. So, it isn’t surprising that tea myths draw upon the gods and goddesses of the Buddhist pantheon.
The oolong, tieguanyin, celebrates who else, but Guan Yin. The story of the origins of this beloved oolong is [...]
