I'll start with the tea.
Do you know what this warm cup of tea is so delightful to me? It was poured from a teapot. Oh, I can see your brows furrow. One brow may even arch skeptically. You must have an unloved teapot in a cupboard. I bet you only pull it out for show where you've got old, eccentric aunt over. Maybe you pull out this sad little pot for dinner parties just to offer someone tea instead of coffee so that you can seem hospitable.
You do not know the happiness of tea; and I'm sorry for you.
I love coffee. I love the rich earthy flavours and the way cream both contrasts and compliments them. I love hot chocolate with its richness and nostalgia-factor. But more than these I crave tea. I love that it comes in varieties of herbal (which I mostly find disgusting unless drunken clear), black, green, white and red (which I have no love for at all). I love finding a new tea and making a whole pot of it.
Today I have made English Breakfast tea. Black as black tea can get.
Cup 1 - the wake up. This cup is a burst of flavour, savory or sweet on the tongue. It pulls me out of the gloom of the day and into a warm and happy place.
Cup 2 - the experiment. Having drunk my tea clear (that is with no milk or sugar) my second cup is a chance to add little something. Maybe a spot of brandy? Maybe a swirl of honey? Who knows? And most importantly, if you have one around, a biscuit. A very good mate of mine in England taught me the value of dunking a biscuit in tea and I will never forget. :)
Cup 3 - the decision maker. Did I like the tea better clear or with 'stuff' in it? Seeing as we're getting to the bottom of my little orange pot from Winners (thanks wonderful man-friend!) it's time to decide what is the lasting taste I want? Sweet? pure? hot? cold?
So many decisions and choices because of a pot of tea.
Today I have no milk or honey in my home (the promised land eludes me until I do a shop), so clear it is!
Eggs!
They're one of the most perfect forms of protein out there in my opinion. I love them in omelets, I love them scrambled and love they fried. Today I thought I'd be a little more healthy though and go for boiled eggs.
Ingredients
Eggs (2)
Water.
Put water in a pot and bring that water to a boil.
Add eggs and let them boil for... I'm sure there's measured minutes for this. If you want hard boiled eggs I'm pretty sure you leave the eggs for 5 minutes. I have no clue. I just boil mine until I think they've suffered enough.
Then, you put your eggs in a little egg-cup and eat with a spoon... unless you are a broke student. In that case, may I recommend a shot glass? The guy who lived here before us left pretty much all his dishes and selection of shot glasses.
Toast!
I love toast, and frankly, can you blame me? Toast is breakfast. You can add peanut-butter or jam. You can dunk it in your egg yolk. And, best of all, it is the most idiot proof food imaginable... with a toaster.
Right now, I have no toaster, so my wonderful man and I have been developing a method of making toast with a cooking sheet and an oven.... and today I didn't burn anything! Last time I tried this, my toast caught fire and I had to beat the flame with a pot holder.... no more toast :(.
So, there we have it. Aristotle had to write a whole book on the pursuit of happiness. I have given it to you in three words: tea, toast, eggs.
Cheers!
yum!
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