Today's Tuesday 4 questions come from Annie. They are about our coffee and tea preferences.
1. What is/are your favorite coffee? (brand or flavor) If you are a tea lover, which tea is the best for you?
I am not particular about the brand of coffee I drink, but I do like a dark roast. It can be flavored or not. I do keep pumpkin spice coffee and mint coffee for DIL2. Sometimes I drink praline flavor.
Usually when I drink hot tea I have Earl Gray, but for iced tea I only use Luzianne. I make tea for iced tea nearly every day.
2. How do you take your coffee or tea? Sugar, cream , flavoring?
Coffee is just black and strong, unless it is nighttime and then occasionally I will add flavored creamer to decaf coffee for a "dessert"
Hot tea just plain tea
Iced tea sweetened with a little Splenda
3. Do you go out for coffee/tea with friends? Ever enjoy a real tea room or a tea party?
Occasionally I meet friends for coffee, but since the pandemic not so often.
I have been to a real tea room and it was fun but most likely I will not do it again.
4. If you could design a coffee shop or even a coffee/tea station in your home, what would it be like?
I have a Keurig on the counter and it works perfectly fine for me. I do not need a coffee bar, but will confess I have old Dukes mayo jars stacked by the Keuring that have different flavored coffees and different flavored powdered creamers, so maybe I do have a strange coffee bar.
Have a great day! Come on and join in!
DOn't drink coffee or tea, but I love coffee flavor. I love the smell. Coffee (leftover was used as a flavoring in many Swedish dishes. My grandmother never wasted old coffee it went into something.
ReplyDeleteI am not fit for human interaction unless I have had one, preferably three cups of coffee.
DeleteFood sensitivities mean I can no longer drink coffee (and haven't been able to for years). I still love the smell.
ReplyDeleteChai is my drink of choice these days.
Chai is lovely but I find I only drink it in the winter.
DeleteI am a sweet tea drinker. I have never been to a tea room, think it would be fun
ReplyDeleteIt was fun but it is something I don't have to do again.
DeleteI no longer drink coffee - it was something I drank a lot of while I was at work, and between the stress and the caffeine I ended up with stomach issues. In factor, they were so concerned they did a biopsy - it was clear. I was told to cut out the coffee and after retirement I switched to tea. At home I drink Red Rose tea, and I enjoy Earl Grey too. In the afternoon, I occasionally have a cup of Chai tea.
ReplyDeleteI never put anything in my hot tea or coffee. I do drink vanilla iced coffee as a treat once in a while. AND I can't abide unsweetened iced tea. I can't tell you how many times I've been surprised by it when I order it in a restaurant in the States.
I am actually meeting friends tomorrow afternoon - for the first time in forever it seems at a coffee shop. We're meeting so they can see the photos from my cruise.
There is a coffee pot and a tea kettle on the counter, the cupboard above has the mugs, tea and coffee canisters. That's as close as I'll ever have to a coffee bar.
I am not a coffee bar person either. I just need my mayo jar filled with coffee and my refillable k-cups and I am good to go.
DeleteHead south and ask for tea. Unless you specify unsweetened you will be getting sweet iced tea.
I haven't been back to the tea house I used to go to since covid either. I really need to go. I love the graphic at the end of your post! Loved your answers! Have a nice week.
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Right as I had started getting back to life IT started back up. I am so tired of it.
DeleteI prefer light roast but brewed strong with cream, but normally I just have 2% milk. I love Earl Gray tea and we love ice tea with lemon in the summer. I like the idea of a coffee station, but really, it would be wasted space. My milk frother is enough for " fancy" at home. I don't like sweet coffee so ball the syrups and creamers are wasted. I like flavored coffee beans and grounds though.
ReplyDeleteI have several jars of flavored coffees and even some creamers that I use maybe once every two weeks for a night time coffee. I have a frother I got at Dollar Tree years ago that still works and that is it for my fancy coffee supplies.
DeletePut me in a tea room and I'd probably feel like the bull in a china shop. The closest I've come to favors is putting frozen coffee cubes in a glass of almond milk.
ReplyDeleteI am about as far from a girly girl as one can get. I enjoyed my one experience at a tea shop, and never need to go again. Put me in a coffee shop and I am among my people!
Delete1. I like freshly ground, whole bean, French roast coffee. I am not brand loyal. I despise tea, but buy it for my husband, who loves it. I buy green tea, and spiced tea for him.
Delete2. I like my coffee with half and half or cream, no sugar.
3. I don't typically go for coffee with friends. I have been to several high teas. The ones I remember the best were in London, Jamaica, and nearby here. My favorite was the one in Jamaica, though I had fun at the one nearby due to to the company. In Jamaica I drank coffee at both.
4. A section of my kitchen counter has my French press, my coffee grinder, and a cannister full of whole beans. Next to that sits a smaller cannister with tea bags. I also have a Keurig, with a basket of K-cups next to it. My whistling kettle sits on my stovetop all the time, so I can make tea for my husband throughout the day.
My kettle lives on my stove top also but mainly to make tea for iced tea every day..
DeleteI prefer my beans to be freshly ground also so I can control the grind. I really wish I had my grandmother's old hand cranked grinder. I loved her coffee.
I don't have a favorite coffee anymore, but, for years, every time I went back to Sri Lanka, I used to bring back coffee grounds from a coffee grinding company there. I am more of a tea drinker than a coffee drinker and my favorite tea (the only tea I drink, these days, actually), is also from Sri Lanka and is labeled "extra strength". I need both sugar and milk or creamer with both coffee and tea, although I will drink black tea with sugar only from time to time. I like iced coffee, but, tea has to be hot for me.
ReplyDeleteI am the exact opposite. I like bot hot and iced tea, but only drink hot coffee.
DeleteThis is easy. I don't drink hot drinks, including coffee and tea. I have never made a cup of coffee in my life. I have drunk two cups in my life. I hate coffee but the smell is great and gives me an appetite, like I need help.
ReplyDeleteI started drinking what my dad called coffee milk when I was a kid and loved it. Only the way I drink it now has changed.
DeleteI don't drink coffee and only drink tea occasionally. However, I love the smell of coffee beans and say when they can make the drink taste as good as the smell, I will start drinking. I have been to a formal tea a couple of times and enjoyed them. However, those were for special occasions and I wouldn't go just on my own.
ReplyDeleteI have only been to one formal tea and it was fun, but it is really not my thing. I would go again if the occasion arises, but mainly for the company, not the experience.
DeleteI like creamer with my coffee. Have a lovely day. Regine
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On rare occasions if I am really hungry mid-day I will have a little cream in my coffee. I don't think I have ever met coffee I did not like.
DeleteMint coffee? Wow, I've never heard of that. I'm an old dinosaur who remembers when coffee wasn't that much of thing in the U.S., and no American who hadn't been abroad had ever had a cappucino. Now I have a cappucino maker in my kitchen and I have one every morning.
ReplyDeleteThe mint flavored coffee is usually brewed then mixed with cream, cocoa and sugar to make a mocha.
DeleteI have nothing but a Keurig and French press, but I drink my coffee black so iit works for me.
I love coffee! Tea, too, but particularly coffee. Black for me, and I prefer French roast. We usually buy a local brand, and grind it right before making it. And when it comes to tea, Earl Grey is also my jam. No milk, no sugar, no lemon -- just neat. :-)
ReplyDeleteI love the scent of coffee, but I don't drink it. My Keurig lives in the linen closet because Sweet Cheeks hasn't expressed any desire for coffee. I'm not a tea drinker, either, but will sometimes prepare a cup if I don't feel well. I like the idea of your jars with different coffees.
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A few years ago we took our camper up to Normandy to visit the Normandy landing beaches and the American cemetery (just stunning) and we stopped in Deauviille to visit the aquarium. Right next door, built into the old town walls, was a small second-hand bookshop that also sold coffee and cakes. My ex knew me well enough to take one look at that place and said "that's EXACTLY where you would like to work isn't it"? And he was right. You might not sell many books but you'd make the money on coffee and cake, I reckon!
ReplyDeleteI have a love affair with coffee. The sound of my grinder in the morning is music to my ears. We enjoy a local brand here in North Florida. I enjoyed your post.
ReplyDeletestraight black coffee for me with a touch of soy milk!
ReplyDeleteYou are clearly quite serious about coffee! I found it interesting that you wouldn't take a second trip to a tea room and then I realised that the only time I went to a tea room it was overlooking Sydney Harbour and though the tea was delightful, it's the view i would go back for
ReplyDeletePeople go on about their favorite coffee house. My favorite cup is the first one of the day, with enough creamo to make it toffee colored and a half tsp of sugar. Then bring it back to bed while I read blogs and listen to the radio through that first cup. The only thing that would make it better is if the "house boy" would bring it to me!!
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed your answers. I like a dark roast too. I just got a coffee pot that is a combo regular Pot for coffee and keurig option too. I like that for times i just want one cup
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