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.


gwynnega: (tea poisoninjest)

[personal profile] gwynnega 2014-08-25 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
That tea looks almost too beautiful to brew!

[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.
sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)

[personal profile] sovay 2014-08-25 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

Poem, or story, please.

[identity profile] rachelmanija.livejournal.com 2014-08-26 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
I wish I could try the tea. It looks like something a dragon would drink.

[identity profile] amaebi.livejournal.com 2014-08-26 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
I may be being amnesiac. Have you made acarajes?

[identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com 2014-08-26 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Oooh, magical foods!

[identity profile] cucumberseed.livejournal.com 2014-08-26 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
I think I have had tea like that. The kind I had contained yerba matte and rooibos, which seems a little... odd, but it was pretty and chocolatey (or chickory-y).

[identity profile] osprey-archer.livejournal.com 2014-08-26 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
Tea of dreams! What a lovely name for a tea.

[identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com 2014-08-26 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
I'd need to be well aware of the source of a palm oil before I'd buy it. I avoid any processed food which lists it as an ingredient.
Edited 2014-08-26 07:30 (UTC)

[identity profile] khiemtran.livejournal.com 2014-08-26 09:44 am (UTC)(link)
That tea does look enticing... And I love the way the characters for "Oolong" can be read as "black dragon". I'd never actually noticed that before.

[identity profile] xjenavivex.livejournal.com 2014-08-26 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds divine. They both do actually.