Onion tea
5:30 pm and
it was clearly time for some evening tea. However, with five cups of tea
already had through the course of the day, it was decided that a cup of lemon
tea would be the healthier option.
Having placed the pot on the stove with
water I went about adding a little green tea leaves and a teaspoon full of
sugar. Lemon was always squeezed directly into the cup to make sure that the
right amount of tanginess would be attained.
July and the
lemon season is upon us; the house is also full of lemons this time around.
We’d been having a lot of family gatherings this past week so I was quite
certain there were lemons stored in the fridge. I opened the fridge but didn’t
see the lemons where they normally were; maybe they went bad and mom threw them
out. Anyway, I thought I’d just go to the garden and pluck a lemon from the
shrub; but then it was quite a walk and Sunday laziness came over me. I hunted
hopefully in the forgotten corners of the fridge and to my joy…a bowl of cut
lemons. However the bowl also contained onions, probably from the salad during
lunch. Doesn’t matter I thought, I’d just wash the lemon wedge thoroughly with
water and add it to my cup.
Washing
done, I took a sniff. No trace of onion. Great! Squeezed it into the pot of tea
hoping that the boiling would remove any hidden trace of ‘onioness’.
I pour my
lemon green tea into my mug. The satisfaction of holding a hot cup of tea on a
fairly pleasant evening is unmatched. I get comfortable in my chair and open a
book; I take a sip….it tastes of onion. I have only myself to blame.
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