Oh! Now I get it. You have to add sugar or sugar twin to the chocolate mint tea. Now it tastes

[applegrove]

fabulous!!!

[HopeHoops]

1. Fuck that. Grow stevia and add that to the tea. It's an annual, but it grows like a weed.

[applegrove]

2. I will look into that. I've tried stevia but not lately and never fresh.

[HopeHoops]

3. It grows like a weed and DAMN is it sweet. It isn't great for baking, but in teas, no better.

I like grabbing leaves off the plant. It's good stuff and not expensive. Every seed sprouts. It also grows well in pots. So do hot peppers for that matter. I recently snarfed down an entire Paper Lantern Hapanero - 450,000 scovile units. It's the only one that has EVER (did I mention "ever&quot taken me out. DAMN was that fucker hot!!!!!!

[Indpndnt]

6. Now that's something I'd like to try!

What do you do with the leaves after you break them off? How do you sweeten the tea? Tea leaves, I get. Stevia leaves....

Help, please? Love tea!

[HopeHoops]

8. We usually hang it upside down from the chandelier (Jumanji, as we call it) or dehydrate it.

When it is dry, it's best to store the leaves whole (tightly sealed jar or ziplock back in a dark place, room temperature). You can crush them and mix them in with other herbs or teas ahead of time or even store them crushed on their own, but the flavor is more intense if you crush them right before use.

You can also use them fresh like you would basil leaves, but obviously for different purposes like on fresh cranberries or grapefruit. Then there's just plucking off a leave out in the garden just to munch on it.

[Indpndnt]

9. Thank you!

I'll have to give this a try. I'll be heading out to a plant nursery soon!

[HopeHoops]

10. If you can't find it, order the seeds from Johnney's Selected Seeds.

That's where we get ours. We grew damn near everything from seed this year.

[Indpndnt]

11. Good to know! We've got a long growing season in Texas, so I can still check nurseries.

And have a great backup, if needed. Thanks, again!

[HopeHoops]

12. Check out the Kermit eggplants. They're smaller than tennis balls but really good.

We tried them for the first time this year. Our crop is fighting the impending frost, but still producing. They're also cute.

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. I love chocolate mint and was disappointed when you said this tea sucked.

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Now, the next time I go to the store, I'm going to try to remember to pick some up.
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[applegrove]

5. Brand name is Téga, from South Africa. It is a rooibos tea with mint & cocoa in it.

Yes. Some of the teas I've tried really need the sugar taste to make them yummy. I'm next going to try the coconut-mango tea and see if sugar doesn't improve that flavour too.

[Indpndnt]

7. By some chance, have you ever tried Banana Chocolate tea from Republic of Tea? Chocolate and Rooibos

http://www.republicoftea.com/product.aspx?p=V01053

I've read good things about it, but can't find any in bulk, either loose or in bags, to see if I'd really be interested. I hate to buy a can only to find out it's horrible. To me, I mean. So many seem to love it, but I've found many popular teas leave me cold. So to speak.