GCE2012: Chai #6

CHAI NUMBER 6 (9/25/12)

After a hiatus, the chai experiment will resume, this time, coming at you from Oakland, cA.

Ingredients:

• 1/4 tsp cinnamon and ginger (each)
• slightly more than 1/8 tsp ground pepper
• almost 1 tsp fennel seeds
• 8 cloves and 5 cardamoms
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup coconut milk
• 1/2 cups milk
• 1 tbs tea
• 1.5 tsp honey

Preparation:
Bring water and spices to a boil, then simmer for 5 min.  Add tea, simmer for 4 more min.  Add milk and honey.

Modifications: more fennel, less tea, more simmering of spices in water, honey instead of sugar, two types of milk because we ran out of coconut milk

Picture:

Chai #6 Rated 3/5

Comments:

• Not as much spice flavor as previous ones
• Coconut milk solids are suspended - not sure why

Rating (of 5):

• Luke: 3.3, coconut milk is holding the rating down
• Ari: 3.7, not bad, but not anything great.

Recent Pictures: Nature's Bonzai

Since more than a month ago, I've been travelling with Luke from Urbana, Illinois to my current location of Berkeley, California.  In between we've visited: Denver, Rocky Mountain National Park, Garden of the Gods (in CO, not IL), Canyonlands & Bryce Canyon in Utah and Yosemite.

In Denver, I also finally took the plunge and bought a DSLR camera.  I have a film camera I really like and have been avoiding digital, but film developing prices keep rising and the quality is continually unsatisfying.  Until I get a darkroom of my own, I think I'll primarily shoot digital.

Here's a picture of what I ended up getting:

Nikon D5100

The pictures I took after Denver at Canyonlands, Bryce Canyon, and Yosemite I've added to an album I call Nature's Bonzai.  So many alpine-wind-blown trees, miniatures in size from the harsh conditions.  Rocks sculpted by wind, water, and time to form majestic testaments to the forces of nature.


Click the photos above to view the full album.

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