Tea and Me

So, I was still trying to recover from the disappointment of discovering that the Rice Pudding + Jam tea from Bluebird Tea Co.’s Spring Collection that I was so looking forward to trying (and was expecting to be my favourite by a country mile as I absolutely adore rice pudding) inexplicably contains coconut (I have no idea why — no self-respecting person would ever put coconut in a rice pudding — and believe me I’ve done extensive polling on this subject) so I can’t even try it. That left me with three others to try — Peach Cobbler , Raspberry Liquorice Laces and Mint Pistachio . Today I want to talk about the Peach Cobbler, which is a black flavoured tea. Ingredients:  Sri Lankan black tea, freeze-dried peach, pink cornflowers, natural flavouring. They describe it thus: Our first black tea + peach pairing and a heavenly one indeed! This blend tastes like a classic cobbler straight from the oven... warm, gooey, sweet with that delightful gold brown crust....

Blimey, it’s been forever since I last posted, hasn’t it? Sorry, I’m afraid I’m not a very good blogger. To be honest, since the last post the weather has been mainly atrocious and so I did the only sensible thing a winter-hater could do — I buried myself indoors with a decent supply of Kent & Sussex Tea & Coffee Co.’s Winter Tea (you’ll remember I raved about it in my last review) in an attempt to hibernate until Spring came. But then Bluebird Tea Co. (who are changing their name shortly to Bird & Blend Tea Co. — click on the link to read why if you're interested) released their Spring Collection of teas, the sun came back (very briefly) and suddenly all felt right with the world again (until the Rice Pudding + Jam tea turned up — but that’s a story for another time). I had intended to blog last week to coincide with National Tea Day , but unfortunately, disaster struck in the form of a migraine, which as we know means no tea drinking for me unless it’s t...