Oatmeal Raisin Cookie

Mmmmmmmmmmm.

I drank this for second breakfast.

First breakfast was at 5:30 am outside with Ashman. Toast and Fresh Strawberry tea by Perennial Tea Room. He had eggs but I didn’t because I know me and having breakfast that early was sure to be a mere warm up.

After working in the garden a little while and doing laundry, I wanted French toast. Often I try to pair tea that will be a contrast to the food but this just sounded like a nice companion for the French toast. It was, too.

I would have sworn there was almond flavoring here, but there is none listed, unless it is included in their final ingredient of the list – “natural flavoring.”

Even without milk and sugar (it doesn’t need it, oh boy oh boy it doesn’t need it) this knocked my socks off. Thank goodness the tea base isn’t thin like so many I run into with flavored teas. It is TEA and it has FLAVORS and best of all it has SMELLS and they are GREAT smells.

They nailed oatmeal raisin cookies.

Would purchase for sure. Planning to order some this fall. Yum.

I survived day 1 of only tea-derived caffeine, successfully powering through the day on nothing but a single cup of black tea and pure vibes.

After another night spent feeling under the weather, I met Day 2 rolling out of my slumber in search of something indulgent to accompany my reading of The Conspiracy Against the Human Race. I settled on this Oatmeal Raisin Cookie blend for a much-needed boost, and oh. My. God.

Despite its delicate, amber coloring, the aroma coming out of my cup is so insanely raisiny it’s like diving into the congealed gummy center of the most fabulously flavorful raisin you have ever tasted and bathing in its cinnamon sweetness. It’s a smooth, syrupy cup reminiscent of curling up in a blanket watching sunny autumn leaves and going back to sleep. I feel like the pat of butter on a warm stack of fluffy pancakes, slowly melting away.