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] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2014-08-26 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
It's base is oolong!! WHICH IS WRITTEN WITH THE CHARACTER FOR DRAGON.

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(that second character is dragon)

how did you know you are a genius.

(And how about you tour this neck of the woods for Stranger? Then I will treat you to some, for sure)

[identity profile] rachelmanija.livejournal.com 2014-08-26 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Wow! I must be psychic.

I would love to tour your place for Stranger. We'll see.
Edited 2014-08-26 01:45 (UTC)

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2014-08-26 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Ouf, and now the copyeditor in me is noticing that I typed "it's" instead of "its"

aaaaaaahhhhh.

Oh well. Put It down to excitement over dragon-lava tea.

And yay! Odyssey Book Store! Great indie bookstore, always doing author talks etc.