Throwback Thursday

Happy Thursday everyone!

So I decided that my choice of font made my posts a little hard to read, so hopefully this size will be a little less stressful on the eyes.

I also decided to change the time stamp on my posts to reflect my current location. ^-^

Anyways, it has been a while hasn't it (why do I feel like too many of my posts start like that?)? Because it has been so long since my last post, I thought it fitting that I do a throwback post just to assure my loyal reader(s) and follower(s) that I am still blogging and plant loving. I actually decided to post because I was out food shopping and it just so happened that I came across a box (the last!) of 도라지차 (dorajicha) or, bellflower, tea.

If that sounds familiar to you, then kudos to you! If not, here's a little reminder:

My very first post, coincidentally enough, so happened to feature the bellflower, or the balloon flower, the common name. As I mentioned in my first post, the root of the bellflower can be eaten in salads, or used to treat coughs and other inflammatory diseases, while the flower itself, I believe, can be used (among other types of flowers, spices, and herbs) to flavor sake.

I'll be honest here; besides wanting to try this tea because it is definitely something I have never found back home, I also wanted to try this tea because I wrote about the flower in this blog.

So here is the box of tea, an individual tea bag, and the cup of tea it produced, tea bag and all:

As you can see, the box featured a picture of the whole bellflower: flower, stem, roots, and all, though I am not sure if the whole plant was in my tea bag. It was pretty decent tea, certainly not my favorite, but quite enjoyable. Surprisingly, it had a grainy scent and taste to it which leads me to my next picture:

I'll be honest again: I was so curious about (and surprised by) the grainy flavor that after I finished the cup, I decided to rip open the tea bag just to see what was inside. Unfortunately, with it being steeped and all, it was rather hard to tell what exactly was in there--some of it looked like stems, some of it looked a little nutty, and some of it was just hard to discern so moral of this lesson: I still don't know what parts of the bellflower was used.

It's nice to be back on blogger and I certainly had fun with this post--but don't expect regular updates--unfortunately I am both too lazy and too busy for that. In fact, upon going to the dashboard to create this post, I found an incomplete post that I've been meaning to finish. I'm sure I'll get to it someday.

Until next time~