Cooking with tea - I

When you were young and at the dinner table, you may have heard an adult say, “Stop playing with your food!"  Maybe right now you conjure up images from either personal experience or stories that you've heard or read about children playing with their food that would just make parents roll their eyes. But playing with your food is not always a bad thing. Rather, it can about discovering new and wonderful flavor combinations by mixing different foods together that one might not normally put together.

Recently, I've jumped back in to playing with my food full speed. It's a natural thing for me to do, but recently, I've delved even deeper.

A few weeks ago, I decided to make a dish that I used to make a lot while in college, rice with sauteed mushrooms and onions. This time I decided to step it up a bit. Chicken broth was used instead of water (that's normal in this household) and then I cut open a pyramid of our Up North! Tea and dumped it in the broth, followed by the brown minute rice. Meanwhile, I sauteed the small to medium onion in olive oil and then added the mushrooms. In the end I combined both the rice and mushroom mixture and served it with a salad using lettuce and other vegetables from the garden. It was really, really, really good. The earthiness of the mushrooms was complimented by the tea. It all went together so well. I'm getting really hungry thinking about that yummy meal.

So be bold and play with your food!

More cooking ideas to come in future blogs.

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