Red Rocks and Cream, a Tea Spot Chef recipe for ice cream

Red Rocks and Cream, a Tea Spot Chef recipe for ice cream

My friend, Karen Harbour, is a professional chef who cooks with tea. Every week or so she sends me a recipe to try and to post on Tea Examiner. This one sounds particularly good, but it has too much fat and cholesterol for me. That doesn't keep me from wanting to share it.
If you have an ice cream make, this would be a great recipe to try.

So far the teas I have liked best from The Tea Spot are Bolder Breakfast, Boulder Blues, Earl of Grey, and their Darjeeling. Their Darjeeling was a little more fruity than I am accustomed to, but what I am accustomed to is Twinings, which I have come to realize is not the height of flavor in loose teas that I once thought it was.

In the past year I have tried teas from Teas Etc., Dilmah, Tetley, Rishi, Celestial Seasonings, Republic of Tea, The Tea Spot, and Kusmi, just to name the ones off the top of my head. I learned that the reason white tea had no taste to me was that I was brewing it completely wrong. After finding weeks of conflicting information, I experimented until I found the method that worked for me. I now use 8 ounces of spring water at a temperature of 150 degrees and steep for about 6 minutes, making each successive steeping 2 minutes longer. The flavor changes with each steeping.

I still flavor strong black teas. I like the kick. But I have discovered a taste for green and white teas as well. My next tea experiment, when I finish my Darjeeling and White Tea Experiments will be comparing Japanese and Chinese green teas. I have been making lists of teas that I want to try and buying one or two at a time. I wish the classes were not so expensive and so far away. Oh well, with the help of friends who know more than I do and my own good nose and taste buds, I will muddle through.

If I had known how much I did not know when I started to write Tea Examiner, I might not have taken the job, but then I would have missed out on some of the greatest experiences of my life.