This Is The Something About Tea

I'm not really sure what this section is, I mostly added it as a placeholder so that my site's navbar would be consistent with my personal moniker: "Gamer, Writer, Tea-drinker". It's mainly because I really like tea. I've never been able to drink coffee, it's kinda gross if it's not a majority milk, sugar, and vanilla. Tea has always filled that niche for me, not to mention offering a lot more options in regards to blends, flavors, drinks, etc. I guess I can at least use this page as a web badge dump? And sure, I'll put the nav link for my blog here, too.

Okay fine, I can probably talk about tea too, right? Let's see, what do I have to say...

Um, the other day I ran out of sugar, so I tried using maple syrup to sweeten my tea. I steeped a cup of chai, and poured in about two spoonfuls of syrup, stirred thoroughly. It was really good, not too sweet, just a hint of the maple flavor. If I let it sit too long, it would form a weird film over the top of the tea and the sides of the mug, but a few dabs of the tea bag and it would mix back in. I tried it a few days later with an Earl Grey and it was pretty good with that too. Not gonna be an everyday kind of sweetener, but it's got a good flavor and comes in clutch if I need it!

In terms of blends, my go-tos are chai, English Breakfast, and Earl Grey. If I'm feeling sick, either seasonal allergies or legitimate illness, I make myself a green tea sweetened with honey. I usually just sweeten with sugar, about two spoonfuls. If there's whole milk in the fridge, I'll pour a bit of that in, just kinda eyeballing it until the tea is a nice light brown color. If it's not whole milk though, I don't bother, it doesn't taste right and I usually don't like it very much. A little sugar goes a long way though, so that's usually all I need, which is good because we don't have whole milk around very often, ahaha!

I try to limit myself to one cup a day usually, and I try to avoid the higher-caffeine teas in the evening. I'm not all that reliant on caffeine, though I do love a warm drink, especially in the mornings, so that tends to be how I do it. Sometimes I go a day or two without making any tea, sometimes it's a week or a month, and then sometimes I make two cups a day for three days lol