asakiyume: actually nyiragongo (ruby lake)
asakiyume ([personal profile] asakiyume) wrote2014-08-25 04:23 pm

lava tea and cooking oil

I have two new food treasures: One, from [livejournal.com profile] mnfaure (thank you my dear!), is Thé des songes, tea of dreams, which is fragrant and ethereal like dreams, but the look of it--black, with bursts of red and gold--is like the surface of a lava lake, so I think of it as lava tea.

lava tea (tea of dreams)

And the other, red as blood, red as hot lava, is this bottle of palm oil!



And with this bottle of palm oil, I'm going to make *even more* of Flo Madubike's recipes. I'm going to start with this one, for fried beans.


[identity profile] queenoftheskies.livejournal.com 2014-08-25 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Yummy!

Have you tried the tea yet? I'm curious as to the flavor.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2014-08-25 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I have! It's very floral, with a hint of almost strawberry in it--which makes sense, as it has, in addition to blossoms, bits of dried fruit in it. Mmmmmm. Very god.

[identity profile] mnfaure.livejournal.com 2014-08-26 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"Very god," eh? :P

I like that typo (divine slip) because when picking out the tea for you, I thought of the visions the Lady of the Lake sent Kaya. :D

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2014-08-26 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahahaha **perfect**

And did you notice in the conversation with [livejournal.com profile] khiemtran, the character for crow (at least, in Japan it's used for crow) is the first character used to write out "Oolong Tea,' which is the base tea for the Tea of Dreams!