I know this is going to sound pretty wierd. I’ve been drinking tea for like years now, all kinds of tea but it took me a simple meal at a simple restaurant to discover, of all things, Cameronian tea.

At lunch one day, I ordered a cup of Cameronian tea for my daughter to sooth her dry, scratchy throat. To be honest, when I ordered it, I had no idea what kind of tea it would be. It just said “hot tea” on the menu. Not very descriptive but I knew it couldn’t be Chinese tea otherwise it would’ve said so.

At any rate, she’d never tasted Cameronian tea but it was love at first sip. Between wondering what kind of tea it was and going back to that restaurant for seconds, I picked up a 20-teabag pack of gold blend Cameronian tea at the grocery tea.

Turns out it tasted just like the one we’d had. Eureka, we’d found it! I can steep a whole pot using only 2 teabags and 4 dessertspoons of sugar and it tastes wonderful! It’s aromatic and not too sweet but I’m not sure if you’ll still need diet pills after a big meal or if this tea has natural slimming benefits.

But hey, for the price of 1 small cup of Cameronian tea at the restaurant, I can now brew 5 pots at home. Guess what, we’re having Cameronian every other day of the week !

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Well, here I am, at the beginning of the last week of my 30-day vegetarian diet. It’s a great experience and I’m doing great! I work out, I eat, just avoiding meat, seafood and eggs and …

… well, just about the only thing about being vegetarian is that I’m always hungry and need to eat all the time . So like every one or two hours, you’ll find me raiding the kitchen and munching on milk and Oreos (man, these are the best!), guacamole and chips, biscuits and whatever else I can get my hands on.

I’m not a snacker by any means so it’s really hard figuring out what to eat all the time. With everything I’m eating, you probably expect that my new best friend would be the fitness equipment at the gym . But most times, I just end up drinking lots and lots of tea and water to fill me up.

One day, I made ambrosia, sheer heaven!! A couple of times, I made huge pots of tongsui, or dessert soups - lotus seed soup with gingko nuts, three-bean soup, black glutinous rice porridge - and survived on those for a whole day.

Mother’s Day is coming up fast. Have you thought about how to celebrate it? If you ask me, my answer will be to have my cake and eat it too, literally.

I’m thinking something like this… maybe?

You can get an extra $10 off your entire Gourmet Station order upon entering the coupon code - SAS06 - at checkout. Looking at all the yummy menu choices they’ve got, it’d be great not only for Mother’s Day but for any occasion when you want to share great food.

Have you checked your herb rack lately and found you’re running out of certain herbs and spices? Well, I usually replenish my supplies from refill pouches because since I already have the tins or bottles, refilling them is much more economical than buying a new tin or bottle.

In the month of April, SpiceCubed is offering free shipping on over 60 varieties of spices and blends. There’s enough varieties there to make your head spin, so go pick out what you need before the offer ends May 3, 2009.

Incidentally they’re also offering free shipping on all gift packages. So if you’re cracking your head over a Mother’s Day gift, how about a SpiceCubed Far East Dozen Gift Box of 12 tins of exotic spices and blends shipped for free?

See how pretty the packaging is. I absolutely love it. It contains tins of ground allspice, ground cardamom, ground cloves, ground coriander, ground cumin, ground mace, ground mustard, ground nutmeg, black sesame seeds, powdered ginger, whole star anise and turmeric. Sure to bring a big smile to Mom’s face.

Oh, by the way, don’t forget, SpiceCubed’s special on Southwest Seasoning is still on.

Earlier this week, the kids were talking about a German restaurant we used to go to a couple of times in the past. It was a nice little place that not many people knew about.

They had a smoking section out back which was actually the five-foot way fenced in and decorated with cast iron outdoor furniture. Well, the place has closed down now so where else can we get those yummy Bratwurst sausages.

Well, I found them at my regular deli at Tesco last weekend. So I made potato salad with bacon bits and we had our Bratwurst lightly fried. Very nice. So nice, in fact, that the kids are calling for an encore.