Bourbon St. Vanilla & Shortbread

Rooibos Bourbon St. Vanilla
(KC)

Ingredients:
Rooibos
Vanilla
Almonds
Calendula

Tea:

The liquid portion of this program was brought to us by KC. She claims that she had gotten it from a tea party (more tupperware, less revolution). Maybe in another post (ahem) she would like to expand upon this.

Rooibos:
Herbal Tea from the oxidized leaf of legume family plant.
Rooibos translates from Dutch to mean "red bush"
Mostly produced in S. Africa, the grade of tea increases with the increase in ratio of leaf to stem. According to wikipedia most of the quality Rooibos gets shipped out of the country to EU (Germany especially), while the crap stays local.

Shortbread:
The solid portion of this meeting was brought to us by MK. It was a delicious short bread from Trader Joe's. It was yummy and buttery.

I don't know what formal format we would like to adopt, but I guess we can record our thoughts about the tea in the comments section since only the person who writes the post can edit the post. (I think?)

December Schedule:

This is a short month everyone.

12/4:
Liquid: (TBA)-MK
Solid: Peppermint Bark/Mint Chocolate -LS

12/11
Liquid: Jewish tea? or Chamomile-NN
Solid: To be taken from children

12/18
Liquid: Christmas Spice-JSD
Solid: Scones-JDD

First Disclosures.

We're a group of coworkers who try to gather every week to explore the many teas out there. We rotate bringing in teas and solid food (i.e. cookies) each week-- holidays and meetings permitting. Or in some cases, meetings be dammed!

Quorum for a meeting is 3.

I don't think we're too technical as to what kind of teas we accept. If it's vegetal and people like to soak it in hot water we'll try it (excluding soups). [tangent: on the box of swanson broth, they actually suggest you heat it up and serve it as a warm beverage, but that's another blog and another project] We especially will favor the commercially available teas since none of us have the vacation time to gather this stuff personally.