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What a week! And what a crazy month May was. I’m pooped just thinking about it. We were at the Kansas Sampler Festival in Leavenworth , KS the first weekend of May; at the Wichita River Fest the third weekend of May; and in between and immediately following those events, I lost my long time assistant, Chelsea, gained and lost another helper and have now gained another helper (who will hopefully be the last person I have to hire and train for a while). Oh, and of course, we had to have our big Memorial Day Weekend Tin Blowout. (If you missed out on that, you should just kick yourself now, because it was a GREAT deal (I’m still second-guessing it )). I think we had more than 70 packages go out earlier this week.

Anyway, for those of you who signed up for our email list at the Kansas Sampler Festival and River Fest, welcome, and congratulations to Claudia Larkin who won a six week subscription to our tea of the week plan. If you didn’t win the drawing, don’t fret, there are frequently opportunities to win free tea from us for being a subscriber to our email newsletter. (More on that in a moment…)

So, on to our Tea of the Week: This was a suggestion from one of our customers, and I spent an hour digging through my email folders and searching our facebook page, but I couldn’t find the original suggestion anywhere, so I couldn’t put his or her name on the blend.

Anyway, when I first got the suggestion, I realized I was going to have to MAKE some Zabaglione to try, because not only had I not tried it before, but I had never HEARD of it before. Well after trying it (for those of you who never have, I would say it is something like a custardy (flavor, not texture) whipped cream with a hint of wine. After trying it, I was not at all sure that we would be able to make a tea that hinted of the complexity of Zabaglione, but after some trial and error, we now have…

Our Tea of the Week for the week of May 31, 2010

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So, we really want you to subscribe to our email newsletter, and we want you to read the posts we send you. I may not be John Grisham, but I think I write some pretty stirring prose about our teas.

So, our free pouch giveaway contest is going to change. From now on, one or more of our posts each month may contain an invitation like the one below. You must actually have the post in your email inbox to reply to in order to win, so if you haven’t already done so, please take a moment to fill in your name and email address under the “Join Our Mailing List” section on our website. You can opt-out any time you like.

Email Contest!

New Rules: We will collect responses through 11:59:59PM Central Time on Sunday. From all of the correct responses we receive, I will select a winner at random using a random number generator and a count of all of the correct replies. The winner will be announced with the posting of next week’s Tea of the Week.
This week’s trivia challenge:
According to http://www.culinate.com/articles/first_person/all_about_zabaglione the basic recipe for Zabaglione consists of egg yolks, sugar and Marsala in what ratio?