The Matiz Piparra Peppers come in a small-ish jar. You can see them all lined up vertically inside—they look tiny and thin. You think: how intense can these be? Answer: well, they weren’t that spicy, but take that from me with a grain of salt. I would say they were more vinegar-y than spicy. They…
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Cauliflower. Pickled. Pickled Cauliflower. Paesana Pickled Herb Cauliflower. Pickled Cauliflower. I repeat. Pickled Caulfilower. Why is this so…enticing? So important? If you don’t get it then…well, try this jar of pickled cauliflower and you will understand why. It’s crunchy. The pickled cauliflower has a slight vinegar and salt punch, which is what one should expect…
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Oooooh…this tea…. it’s so… okay, I’ll stop. Ooooh Darjeeling is an oolong from….Darjeeling, India. Who could have guessed? I can’t guess the reason for the ‘oooh’ part of the name. I suppose they were trying to give those the sense of awe and wonder before tasting it? Not sure. All I know is what I…
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I’ll cut my ‘Honeycrisp’ knock-off rant down to a minimum. It’s self-evident in the name—the EverCrisp is a child of the Honeycrisp. Let’s move on with our lives and discuss the qualities of the EverCrisp apple and not its lineage. It’s crispy. Who knew!? But it really is. The EverCrisp is tiny, crunch, sweet, and…
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The Ali Shan is a prestigious tea, or rather, high end. It comes from high places. Literally. It is a high mountain oolong. A prized one. So it’s a bit pricey, but is it worth it? Does its lofty origins actually create a superb flavor? Maybe. It has a floral flavor—sort of like a Jasmine.…
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The SugarBee apple is a child of the Honeycrisp apple. Like the Juici apple, it’s trying to be…the perfect apple or Honeycrisp 2.0. I’m not going to say I’m getting tired of this completely, because the results have been generally delicious. The SugarBee is no exception. The SugarBee apple has a light, airy sweetness. An…
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Hojicha tea does not look like a typical green tea. As in, it is not green and it is neither black nor whiteish. It’s brown. Why? Because it has been roasted! And because of that roasting, it has a hearty, toasty flavor. It’s savory. It’s a strong bodied tea because of that toasty, sort of…
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The Juici apple is another attempt by the Human race to engineer the perfect dessert apple. Or something like that. It’s like after the Honeycrisp came into existence everyone’s been trying to improve on it and making basically slight variations of the same concept. An apple that is: crispy, juicy, and sweet. That second quality…
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The King David apples that I had a chance to try were the last of their type at my grocery store. I could tell they were on the older side, and yet, I had to try them anyway. They were a new apple to me so I had to have them! They were on the…
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Moonlight White Tea, also known as White Moonlight, or Yue Guang Bae, or Yunnan white, is not, as you may think from the name, a truly white tea. It’s processed like a Pu’er tea, but isn’t a true Pu’er either. It’s complicated. It exists in a world where people get into arguments over technicalities and…
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