As some of you know, I help out over at the superb looseleaf tea company Lahloo, and have switched in my Triple Grande Soy Lattes for the better and gentler side of tea. Kate Gover, the owner, asked if I would do a brief interview for her about how and why I changed hot drink camps. I, of course, was thrilled to.
Please visit her company’s blog to read the full interview HERE.
Thanks Kate!
Lahloo Chai Tea Winners:
1. Claire Hoeckel. Being newly engaged is a pretty unbeatable reason to get some tea!
2. Kat. At Lahloo Tea, they understand what it means to want a hot cuppa tea on a soggy English day all too well. They want to help.
3. EOshea. They do more than just handle my SAG checks and mail. They also gave me a car, a laptop, many bottles of wine, a trip to France and well, I owe them something in return. Lahloo tea understands that a cup of tea is the least I can do for my Godparents of the west coast.
4. Jenny. Any time someone is converted to tea, they deserve to know what the difference between a nice cup of loose leaf tea and the bags you buy at the grocery store is.
5. Judy. My mother, and a gorgeous woman. Lahloo tea understood I couldn’t say no to my mother.
But not to worry for the others, because we are not finished! Everyone is a winner here!
Lahloo Earl Grey Sample Winners:
1. Hanna. I know you would like to pass on your winnings to someone else, so you can email me to let me know who! (and if you wish to keep it for yourself, that’s OK too!)
2. SmittenbyBritain. When someone is addicted to something, especially tea, Lahloo is here to enable!
3. UniquelyTea. Santa would love those scones and tea! He told me!
4. Tea. Sharing is something Lahloo recognizes and would like to reward!
You can either email me at lady[@]ladywholunches.net or I will email you later today to get your address.
Congrats to everyone.
I was sitting here thinking about what to get my family for Christmas, and as much as I would love to be able to help my family in the states add to their collection of lawn ornaments by mailing a big red English Phone booth back to them…somehow, I just don’t think it’s logical.
Plus, I have fallen in love with this amazing loose leaf tea company called Lahloo Tea, and tea is much cheaper to mail. So, I wrote to the owner, Kate Gover, asking if I could pretty please do a giveaway of my favorite tea, and she agreed! I get to giveaway ten freebies!
I decided to pick her Chai blend for the Christmas memories it brings me, the big full flavors and for the amazing scent it evokes. I would love my house to smell like it!
It is her own concoction of fresh tea leaf ingredients, and is absolutely filled with Christmas wintery deliciousness. Usually when I taste Chai, the taste is left a bit bland from the cheap ingredients, but this combination uses only the best.
Here is how it is described: Rich, chocolaty Ceylon blended with whole green cardamom, star anise, cloves, bay leaves and ginger pieces. Yum!
The twisted, Ceylon tea leaves with a rich chocolaty, malty aroma and fruity taste are grown naturally on the Kenilworth tea estate in Dimbula. We have blended this fabulous, warming black tea with whole chunks of Marsala spices to evoke the spicy yet sweet chai tea that is enjoyed across India.
How to enjoy, the traditional way:
Use approximately 1 tsp per cup; add milk and simmer for 3 minutes. Strain into a cup and, using a cinnamon quill, stir in a little honey!
HOW TO WIN A PACK OF LAHLOO’S CHAI TEA:
All you have to do is complete this sentence in the comment section below: “I would like to receive some tea this Christmas because….”
Five of the most creative answers will be picked by three judges the day after Thanksgiving. That gives you one week to think of why you would like tea for Christmas! (Family members are not excluded nor given priority!)
Plus, five runners up will get a sample of their aromatic Earl Grey!
Once you are picked, I will email for delivery address.
The Bristol Wine and Food Fair was last weekend, and a certain tea company was celebrating their one-year anniversary. Jock’s good friends, Kate and Neil Gover, run a loose-leaf tea company called Lahloo Tea. Kate’s passion for tea led the way and she named it after the famous tea clipper her great-great grandfather sailed on. They were promoting their products at the festival, and were able to snaggle us a couple of tickets to which we were greatly appreciative. It’s unbelievable how well she’s done in a year – getting her teas into michelin-starred restaurants, Liberty department store in London and PUREbliss in the Cotswolds.
Honestly, I have to say it was the best tea I’ve ever had. Being an American, we’re not known for being huge tea connoisseurs. However being a partial Californian, I have figured out that we might know more about the herbal varieties than perhaps the average British English Breakfast tea with milk drinkers. The freshness of their teas compared to cheap store-bought ones is so obvious.
The White Mulberry and Mr Aoki Green tea was my favorite, especially paired with these burst-in-your-mouth chocolates they put out. Tea and chocolate?! Yup, it actually works.
And who knew you could make alcoholic cocktails with them! I’m hoping to snatch Kate for a meeting of “Ladies Who…” and learn her recipes for these cocktails. I know what everyone in America is getting for Christmas this year! Their booth was adorable, although my pictures don’t do it justice. I love the colors she picked and the packaging is so unique.
Other than the tea, there was wine. We did taste a lot of it. I may have gotten tipsy. The cheese was to die for, and although we didn’t actually buy any cheese or wine – we did manage to purchase a few quiches, a couple of cupcakes and lots of ice cream. You pretty much had to roll me out of there.
On a more personal note, this weekend Jock and I are heading to Stratford-Upon-Avon where I plan to meet Shakespeare, his wife Anne Hathaway and maybe Juliet (if she hasn’t already killed herself). Jock is taking me there for our year anniversary. This time a year ago, I was packing my bag, saying toodle pip to LA, bring it on Chicago, and wondering if Jocko was everything he was in real life as he was on paper. Courtney was helping me decide what to wear for our reunion, and trying to reassure me that this was indeed a good idea. It’s weird to imagine that I had only met Jock for eight hours four months earlier, and thought jumping on a plane alone to a place 1500 miles away was a good idea. Daddy, you should be ashamed for letting your daughter out of the house!
It turned out alright after all! Here we are in the early days.
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