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White Peony from Mandala Tea – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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White Peony is a 2013 supreme grade white tea. This Yunnan Province grown tea is sold by Mandala Tea, online seller of loose leaf teas. White Peony is also known as Bai Mu Dan, or sometimes written in English as Pai Mu Tan. I do love Mandala Tea‘s goodies. They have amazing pu’er, and a mind blowing milk oolong. How about their white teas? I received this tea as a surprise sample with my order. Actually, this tea blew me away with its appearance alone! This tea is flat out beautiful! No need for tea owls, I’m going to let the tea leaves speak for themselves. Dry… Continue reading, hoot!

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White Monkey Tea from Little Red Cup Tea Co – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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White Monkey tea is an organic, fair trade green tea sold by Little Red Cup Tea Co. This tea is mountain-grown from western Hunan Province in China. Looking for a tea company that sells only whole leaf, certified organic and fair trade teas? Check out Little Red Cup Tea Co. Their line up is small, but they had a few teas that caught my eye. I did do a double take on this White Monkey tea. It sure looks like a white, but the description of White Monkey on Little Red Cup Tea Co‘s site is that it is a green tea. White Monkey is technically processed like a green tea… Continue reading, hoot!

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Idulgashinna Ceylon Green Tea from Single Origin Teas – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Idulgashinna Ceylon Green tea is an organic, fair-trade tea from Sri Lanka. This green tea is sold by Single Origin Teas, an online tea seller. Single Origin Teas has quite an interesting collection of teas from various parts of the world: China, India, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Japan, Nepal, Morocco and South Africa. I tend to drink quite a bit of unflavored Chinese teas, so I was more than happy to give some Sri Lanka tea a go! Dry Leaf Idulgashinna Ceylon Green tea has a soft, hay scent. The dry leaf consists of tightly pinched needles of brown and green tinted leaf. Steeping… Continue reading, hoot!

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Jin Pin Black Tea from Yezi Tea – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Jin Pin Black tea is a Chinese black tea from Nanhu Mountain. This rich, “gold personality” tea is sold by Yezi Tea, an online seller of Chinese teas. Folks, Yezi Tea! They got a nice lineup of unflavored Chinese teas, with some really interesting looking black teas. The have great prices, sample sizes, and even a Super Sample Promotion that you get 3 free samples and only have to pay for shipping! Also regular orders also get 3 free samples! Very cool! The shipping was super fast on these samples too, I was quite impressed. In Oolong Owl Blog news – I have a… Continue reading, hoot!

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Kathryne Earl Grey black tea from justea – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Kathryne Earl Grey is a handmade earl grey blend from justea,  a Vancouver Canada based tea company supporting fair trade efforts for Kenyan Tea Farmers. This special earl grey is made with fair trade, hand processed Kenyan black tea and cold-pressed organic Mediterranean bergamot oil. justea crowd funding campaign ends TODAY (October 18th 2013)! Check it out justea‘s site if you haven’t yet! Their campaign is basically this: I’ve been meaning to get this review out sooner, but I had some unexpected computer issues causing me to ugggg… the horrible “R” word.. (reformat! wahh!!!) The Tea Owls have been helping me today with handing me… Continue reading, hoot!

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Da Hong Pao Oolong from Teavivre – Tea Review

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Da Hong Pao Oolong (aka Big Red Robe) is a Wuyi Rock tea from Fujian, China. This oolong is sold by Teavivre, online tea seller of Chinese teas. Yes, I need to drink an oolong right now! Yesterday was Canadian Thanksgiving, and I demanded my family/friends celebrate despite us not being in Canada. Felt a little warmer and less fall-like to celebrate here in California, but the timing felt more what I was used to. I summoned the Tea Owls to come help with an oolong tea review, but they are all passed out. The Tea Owls spent the night… Continue reading, hoot!

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Raspberry Vanilla Mint Green tea from Simple Loose Leaf – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Raspberry Vanilla Mint Green Tea is a Young Hyson Chinese Green Tea blend with peppermint, raspberry and vanilla Flavor and raspberries. This tea is part of Simple Loose Leaf‘s huge line up for their tea subscription plan. Tea Owls – Simple Loose Leaf! This place is brilliant! Admittedly, I was confused at first glance on how their tea subscription works, but it’s because I was thinking of typical tea subscription methods that I’d get stuck with volume than variety. Simple Loose Leaf tea subscriptions works by you pick out the tea and they’ll send you tea every month. If you… Continue reading, hoot!

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Black Jasmine Cream from New Mexico Tea Company – Oolong Owl Tea Review

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Black Jasmine Cream  is a black and green tea blend with jasmine flowers and vanilla flavoring. This tea is from New Mexico Tea Company. Black Jasmine! I’ve noticed once in awhile people asking around Steepster for Jasmine Black teas. It’s a tea combination that seems uncommon to find. The first black jasmine I’ve tried was Jasmine Black Pearls from DAVIDsTea, which was really good. New Mexico Tea Company is another place to find a Black Jasmine tea, which I managed to get my Owl claws on it! Dry Leaf Black Jasmine Cream smells like a jasmine lovers dream! Lots of… Continue reading, hoot!

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Lemon Rose White tea from Whittard of Chelsea

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Lemon Rose White tea features Silver Tips White tea, Green Tea, Peony Petals, and Lemongrass. This tea is from Whittard of Chelsea. From what I can tell, I only see Lemon and Rose White tea listed on the UK side of the site and not the US side. Actually, all the interesting blends are on the UK shop side – I hope they bring those teas to their US shop! I always have a lemon green or white tea on hand – they make great iced teas! I also enjoy a lemon tea when I’m sick – I can doctor… Continue reading, hoot!

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Tea Infused Pears – Canning Recipe by Oolong Owl

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I’ve recently fallen in love with canning. My tea-hating husband and I love to cook and we get all frugal crazy sometimes, so venturing into home canning was inevitable. We’ve so far canned tomatoes, pizza sauce, spicy vegetable mix, dilly beans, nectarine conserve, nectarine vanilla maple jam, watermelon jelly, pomegranate jelly, salsa and pineapple. My local grocery store had some great looking pears for really cheap, so I purchased 9lbs for canning. I love canned fruit for on top of ice cream, yogurt or even cottage cheese. I was inspired by Coconut & Lime‘s recipe Tea Pear recipe, as well… Continue reading, hoot!