For something of a change, this is a little digital speedpaint I did July 2022 actually… of a photo I took long long before. Peppermint tea, made with leaves from my garden.
I’ve been a big Peppermint Tea fanatic for years and years and years.
It was one of the things I took on as a personality trait in elementary school in fact (something in and of itself to unpack perhaps). I took a box of peppermint tea bags (Stash Peppermint Tea of course, haha!) on a class trip with me… I’m talking an elementary school class trip on a Tallship where all our belongings had to stay stowed on our bunk where we slept.
I think my primary introduction was as a very young child at my Dutch Grandmother’s house. Juice was a rare special thing there (often homemade when it did turn up), but what she did have and always offered to all us little cousins, was peppermint tea with honey. The honey made it particularly special I think. Drop in an ice cube or two so it wasn’t too hot. Offered with oatmeal chocolate chip cookies or date squares or other homemade treat.
Eventually I clued in that we did in fact have peppermint tea at HOME, and it started to become a comforting habit and I quickly stopped adding honey.
While I did have chamomile on occasion, peppermint tea remained my tea of choice until a fateful time in Japan just after high school! Ah, green tea… I shall have to write about you another time.
Yes yes, I will likely be revisiting tea again in this series. It seems to remain… My Thing.
