Speak Your Mind.

Yeah here too. They are on every other corner.

Starbucks is like that here, too

And all their competitors

Apparently in the States at one point it was considered unpatriotic to drink tea LOL

Coffee became much more popular then

I like both.

The various infusions people call tea are often touted as having some health benefit

But the same goes for regular coffee and tea as well. It's good for you, they say! LOL

Story on bread...
I and our team had been travelling all night by bus towards home in Brazilian country roads.
I couldn't sleep as it was bumpy and crammed in the bus...just to be crammed even moreso into a tiny car with 5 others. But the sun was coming up and the pastor driving us had to stop by his office on our way to a luncheon/brunch we were to attend.

I smelled the bread....half asleep, groggy from the lack of it and starving I smelled it calling me like a voice from heaven.
I spoke no portuguese and the guys just standing around talking in the shop spoke no english. But I pantomimed following my nose and finally deduced that what I was smelling they called "sheepa". Which is a horseshoe shaped pao de casia. (Rich brazilian bread made with yucca flour and cheese)
The whole place is focused on me as we try to negotiate getting me some bread and coffee.
Brazil is such a friendly place... and these guys are ALL trying to help with this huge language barrier in place.

Then, I had the bread and coffee and had to go back to the car and cram myself into the others and share my bread and coffee with the 5 in there... except for the one lady whining about not getting anything because she said she didn't want anything from the bakery...but upon actually smelling it changed her mind. We all shared...good thing though...brunch was hours away.

Hey! Me TOO!

Buffalo tongue, heart or liver cooked over a nice, hot wood fire. Roasted horse, but mule is a wee bit better. Served with a side of roasted ears of corn.

Mmmmm......... Authentic Indian food..........

Ah not that authentic. I mean using fresh spices and making your own curry powder instead of using curry pastes from the jar and premixed spices or watering down things to adapt to other cultures.

Our spices were chili peppers, jalapenos, sage leaves, salt if we could get it and mesquite smoke

I'm talking chili, garam masala, tumeric, corriandar, cumin, cardamon,tamarind etc etc. I have to say I don't like coriander though. Yuk it's too strong.

um are we talking apples and oranges here?
Indian food as in from the country India
vs.
Indian food as in Native American?
MAN! I could go for a good buffalo burger right about now..........
and maybe some of it's skins to snuggle up and keep warm under.......
it's 12F here!!!!!

these do not grow in the desert Southwest of America, or in Mexico. So we do not have them

Yes I think we are talking about two different Indians here lol.

One chai recipe I looked at had fennel in it

I guess there are various blends?

The base is black tea, though, which is why there is caffeine in it, though decaf is available too

We Canadians are trying to move away from calling our Aboriginals "Indians"

Somebody tried arguing with me once, saying that was wrong, as if Aboriginals can only be Aussie

Native American is also acceptable As well as Indigenous

Please I am supposed to be going to sleep and I am thinking and dreaming of food, chai, coffee, donuts, icecream. Sigh!!
I feel like doing a Nigela and raiding the fridge, but alas I won't.

Cherokee warrior

I went to bed around 8 last night

Sweet dreams, Ruby

We'll save some coffee/tea and donuts for you

I can't make any promises on the ice cream, though LOL

Oh, I didn't know that. I thought aboriginals were only Aussie too but I think it means native to the country or something if I recall.

AHA!!!!!!
NOW you know what it was like for me last night

aboriginal definition: Sometimes Aboriginal. relating to or typical of the original or earliest known
inhabitants of a region, or their descendants: the aboriginal people of Tahiti; aboriginal customs.

Aboriginal. relating to or being a member of any of the peoples who are the earliest known
inhabitants of Australia, or one of their descendants: an Aboriginal tribe of Tasmania.

originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native; indigenous: