If you make a mistake,
use this. Lots of this.
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*We’ve received a large number of emails about our teapot. After some research, we concluded that it is Bee House Persimmon. (Link here.) We bought it Uwajima Asian Market in Portland. :)
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Awesome! I definitely have done similar things.
I don’t want to laugh, but I can’t help it. That sucks!!
Thanks for sharing though, it’s nice to know I’m not the only one who does stuff like that. LOL
Mmmm sexy sexy seaweed breath. Oh baby! *snogs*
Ew! ew-ew-ew!
LMAO!!!
That’s a fantastic post, an illustrated guide to tea and seaweed, uses therof.
I hope that you are recovering from the seaweed infusion.
It was yesterday, actually. I was thinking about a fight with snakes and the rest is history.
Very funny!!
Oh.
Doh.
That would be really unfortunate. How many sips did you take? Or was one enough?
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One was waaaaaay plenty.
Wow that tea had a lot of different stuff in it. Do you add sugar or does that ruin the healthy aspect of herbal tea?
Hey Nikki,
No sugar in my tea or coffee for year and years.
Well, it might catch on..? I’m sure it has many and varied health benefits – if you manage to keep it down that is!!
Hehe – Im sure its great with fish..:)
Ewww! That must have been really nasty. The green tea looks pretty. The seaweed, not so much. I hope it didn’t make you sick. Where do you get green tea like that?
Nice and clear. By the way, I love your tea kettle.
Thank you. It is big and nice and it was cheap.
I was just thinking that same thing! I really like that kettle.
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We bought it at that Asian market on 10.
I love your posts! Even though I know this must have been gross the post of it cracked me up. I have done similar – dumped a packet of dried gravy mix (chicken) into sour cream for dip and the dried onion soup mix into the chicken stock for the gravy (so much for multitasking) Needless to say both were quite nasty!
LOL
maybe consider labeling stuff in the future…
i have to be honest those seaweeds look like dangerously like black tea…
I totally do stuff like that all the time.
Love the teapot BTW
I’m thinking that it’s probably a good thing you don’t do my job. Mixing up squid and corn seeds and round worms and radishes would be disastrous…
I love the pictures…
what is your job????
She works as Poison Ivy.
Drinks ALL the green things!
Okay I don’t want to be snarky….ok well I DO want to be a little bit. Didn’t it smell just the tiniest bit off before you drank it? ;x
Nope. You have to understand – my head was planning a fight scene, so I set times for two minutes, when it chimed, I poured the tea, and took a sip on autopilot.
I so want to be you! You have a cool tea pot and know how to brew real tea! Glad you had LOTS of toothpaste on hand…
Two to three minutes for green tea, that’s no problem… unless I make the mistake of starting to read. But how do you get the water to the proper 180 degrees for green tea?
*cackling* had to tip my head back and belly laugh at that. You know, if you hadn’t posted that, you could’ve offered to make some delicious tea for Gordon. *innocent eyes*
*laughing*
I forgot how to pump gas this morning, myself, so I’m laughing with you, not at you. I could so see myself doing that.
<__>
Okay, so I nearly did, but I caught myself before I put basil with the ginger root. (It was supposed to be licorice root, not ginger.)
You followed it with radioactive green slime? You realize that you now have a mutant seaweed creature living in your brain who’s bent on world domination….and has access to Andrew?!
Not to mention Kid 1 & 2!
And the dog butt-canons!
Hmmm.
Maybe I should have gotten more sleep last night.
So did the seaweed help you win the fight with the snake or did it cause you to loose the fight?
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By the third picture, I was howling. Sorry. Nah, not so much. We’ve all done stuff like that. The pot is great.
The fact that you were plotting a fight explains how you missed the lack of flowers. You should probably never get black or green tea without flowers, since if you look (when not plotting) flowers or lack of flowers would give you warning. Since Gordon loves you, he has probably run out to get different canisters, so teas can be kept in one kind, and seaweed, and all non-tea items, can be kept in totally different looking ones.
Have you ever tried soaking the wakame, draining it, and then adding a little rice vinegar? NOT AS TEA! No doubt you will want to wait a while before you consider trying that.
Still smiling. Sorry you got an over-stimulating sip of not-tea, but thank you for sharing it.
Once my neighbor and I added salt instead of sugar to kool-aid. Let’s just say there wasn’t a lot of “Oh ya!” afterwards
*shudder* Why would you have nori flakes around anyway? I find the stuff to be hideous no matter how good it is for you. I couldn’t eat sushi even if I didn’t hate fish because it’s wrapped in the stuff.
You are not alone! This is along the lines of throwing your socks in the toilet instead of the hamper. Which I have done more then once, I have to admit…
Yes I’ve done similar. I was traveling and was going to use the facial cream (in a little white tube) as toothpaste.
Lesson learned: It’s NOT a good idea to perform these simple tasks a.) distracted or b.) w/o glasses or contacts.
Oh my! The snake battle must be awesome and all engrossing!
My daughter likes to eat nori sheets (for wrapping sushi) but I gag whenever I smell it! When she snacks on them in the car, I have to roll my window down to breathe.
Who else is reminded of various similar was-not-paying-attention mistakes in their life?
I once opened a mini snickers and ended up throwing away the chocolate into the trash. Didn’t notice till I brought the empty wrapper up to my mouth.
A friend gave me quite a strange look.
I thought that was a Bee House teapot. I have one of the little individual ones. LOVE IT! One of these days I’ll get a bigger one.
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Oh noes! I feel your pain, first the disappointment when you realize it’s not the tea and then the bad taste… ew!
Omg, haha! That’s perfect. The next time a certain someone in my life comes for a visit, I can offer some “special green tea”.
“Really, it’s all the new thing, like those berries. Health straight from the sea.” Muhahaha.
Kitchen type things and distraction do not mix! Thanks for the laugh and I am glad you survived.
Maybe Kate or Andrea can serve seaweed tea to someone they have issues with? You know what they say about pay back . . .
LOL. This happened to me years ago but with dried fungi (mushroom). They absorbed water and expanded. Tried to pour the “tea” but nothing came out, opened the thermo and the mushrooms nearly exploded.
hahahahahahaha Yeah…a few weeks ago, we were cutting fresh green beens for dinner. We threw the body of the beans (which you want to eat!) outside. Didn’t realize it until it was time to throw the beans in the boiling water….Green beans ends do not a good meal make. The rabbits outside were happy, though.
So the snakes were killed with infused seaweed?
Ew…. I had a similar experience… but with salt vs. sugar in lemonade. *makes face*
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Tears in my eyes, OMG. Aaaah!
Growing up in the South when I did, it wasn’t unusual for elderly ladies and men to dip snuff. My grandmother did until the day she died – Garrett’s Sweet Snuff. It was fine ground, a powder not the shreds of today’s dip. It came in a cute little glass. One day, she reached into the cabinet to get the instant coffee, and made her coffee with – yes, you guessed it, Garrett’s Sweet Snuff. Sound effects, followed by crashing, followed by water running and furious spitting. Followed by the sound of my hysterical laughing as she explained what had happened. I was a cruel child.
LOL at you & Ying! Loved the photo-guide.
Try making a fancy cake for a friend’s birthday celebration and using salt instead of sugar ( damn you brand new canister set). Oh, the mortification!!
The Marriage Freres peeps probably also want to note that they don’t advise you to store teas in clear (or even cloudy) containers. It can reduce shelf life and flavour.
Now for something completely diffrent:
Read Silver Shark. Didn’t mind the ending at all.
Thanks for the icing on my day guys!
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Should add some miso paste into it to make miso broth….
instant dinner esp if u add some tofu into it.
I remember the first time that I cooked with wakame… The dried stuff REALLY expands. I had used far too much for a bowl of miso soup (lol). At least it didn’t have time to set up though, right? because it can get pretty mushy/all over the place. :]
My similar incident was when I was teaching cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and had a bottle of water and a bottle of isopropyl alcohol on the desk and was busy talking to a student when I took a big gulp of not-water. Did I mention I’m highly allergic to anything alcohol?
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As for tea, my mistake tends to be putting flour instead of sugar into it. Stupid matching canisters and stupid slow mornings.
I like seaweed and have bought seaweed snacks. It tastes good to me.
Once mistook corn starch for flour when baking cookies. That was not a good combo.
To be fair, that seaweed does look like loose black tea, and to me the tea looks like pot-pourri! DOH!
Coming from someone who once used deodorant as hairspray by mistake, I feel your pain…