A friendly warning: this is not your traditional "Tea and Cakes" kind of post
An Asian lady-friend of my mom's bought her a container of
Sencha Green Tea, since she knows how much my mom loves Sencha
Because neither my mom nor I don't know/speak Japanese (I believe
it's Japanese), she translated the instructions for us on a piece of paper
Anyone out there know what it says or what the brand
name is? All I know is it's "something...something...100%" lol
Instructions in English
Inside the container; Foil bag of tea
Sencha Green Tea Leaves
I scooped some of the leaves into a paper tea sachet instead of a tea pot
Placed the sachet into a mug and added hot water
Steeping the tea
I opened up the paper sachet a bit to show you the structure of the tea leaves
after exposed to hot liquid... they get soft, plump and seaweed-like in texture
Just like yesterday's Pumpkin Muffin, these "cakes" are also from Planet Organic
Spinach Potato Cakes
Definitely not the type of "cakes" you were expecting, right?
Spinach, Potatoes and Goat Cheese
Among many other ingredients, including
Eggs, Breadcrumbs, Onions, Herbs and Spices
All formed together in 2 Burger Patties
As great as it would have been to have sugary sweet dessert instead,
it's much healthier to have this kind of tea and cake for Breakfast
9 comments:
I was looking for a nice green tea, I will try this one next time. Instead of the paper bag you use can you try this, it does a great job if you are making just tea for yourself.
Teastick: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002VBXQQG saves paper.
The spinach and potato cake sounds good also, it will be nice if it is hot, will be great for winter.
Tasty!
Yum those cakes look really good :)
Those potato cakes look really good! They remind me of the latkes my dad always used to make when I was a kid. :)
Tea. Me doesn't like Japanese tea... Spinach and potato patties are another story. Loooove! Anyway, down there the label says "100% Shizuoka tea" （静岡茶１００％）and the name of the company is the bolded thing - 松井製茶- "Matsui Sei Cha". Here is their website (no English, of course):
http://www.matsuiseicha.com/
Tea is from Shizuoka and the company name is Matsui Seicha.
I'm Japanese.
i feel so utterly lazy after having viewed your steeping sencha green. i'm currently sipping upon peppermint tea, made using the keurig! . . . terrible! i don't even own a tea pot anymore. :) those cakes look good, and my initial notion is to dip them in ketchup. lol!
Ooh I've never seen anything like that. It looks fabulous! I want to try making one.
That tea looks much better than the nasty stuff that comes in the tea bags all ground up.
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