Making Peda (Peera) - a soft fudge - from scratch is no simple task. It requires patience and determination, traits I felt I possessed but I did not know to what extent until I made Peda. This is not to say that at one point in the process I did not feel like tossing the pot into the sink, filling it with water, and giving up!
This week's column is a must-read in order to understand the three very different batches of Peda shown below and the result of the taste test done with 8 tasters! Read the column.
More Peda on the web:
Padma's KitchenSpice & CurryAayi's RecipesFun & Food CafeAhaarOn to the giveaway.
Do you like tea? Want a chance to win some loose leaf tea and an infuser? Then read on.
By now, everyone knows about
my obsession about all things tea related. Well, particularly tea infusers. After reading my most recent tea column -
Sometimes 'why' is not important - Maria of
Tea Spot emailed me with an offer that feeds right into that tea-infuser obession! She offered to send me a Tuffy (loose tea steeper)! I hit the reply button right away with a big thank you!
Look at my Tuffy! The great thing about it is that it is collapsible and portable enough to take with me whenever I travel. I can brew
loose leaf tea on the go. Okay, maybe some people will look at me and shake their heads but I don't care. I love my Tuffy. I'm using it at home and when I am on the road.
Maria also sent me some loose leaf tea samples which I have been thoroughly enjoying. I am so excited about
Tea Spot and their products (I am not being paid to say that), that I wrote asking Maria if Tea Spot would be interested in doing a giveaway on my blog and she said yes! I know that many of you are big tea lovers so I wanted to give you the opportunity to enjoy some of the products too.
What I like about Tea Spot is that apart from having a range of
tea infuser options and
loose leaf tea, they actually design and manufacture all their tea ware and they do so focusing on positive environmental and ethical practices.
Here's how simple the giveaway will be. Just leave a comment on this post saying how you like your tea and what's your favourite time of the day to have a cuppa. That's it!
THE PRIZEThe winner will receive from Tea Spot - a
Tuffy Steeper and 3 cans of
loose leaf tea. You get to pick the three cans cans of tea you'd like.
The promotion will run from today (Saturday, Nov 6) to Wednesday, November 17 at midnight US Eastern Standard Time. All the names will be entered into
Random Number Generator and the winner will be selected. As a bonus, if you
sign up to receive my column by email, your name will be entered twice!
Unfortunately, the giveaway is only open to those living in the USA and Canada. Sorry for any disappointment.
Here are 3 general tips for brewing loose tea. Of course, each culture has their own way of doing things.
- Your tea infuser should be big enough to allow your tea leaves ample room to open up in flavour and aroma. The ideal material for a steeper is ceramic or glass.
- Use the right temperature for the tea leaf (too high can cause it to become bitter, too low and you can extract too little flavour).
- Steep your tea for the right length of time recommended (too much and it becomes bitter, too little and there is not enough body to it.
Okay, leave your comment now on how you like your tea and your favourite time of the day to have it.
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