Dessert degustation

There is a certain excitement I get when I do a thing I've never done before ... And I must say I have never done a 10-course chocolate degustation before!

SerendipiTea is providing the teas for this function at savour chocolate & patisserie school so it would be wrong if I didn't show up... Right?
So ... All the un-usual suspects will be creating 2 courses the proprietress Kristen Tibballs and Paul Kennedy providing the finishing coup de grace'
Adriano Zumbo, Deniz Karaca, Tim Clark & Bernard Chu will all be creating desserts that sound fablulous... Mille Feuille this and caramelised that, Sorbets and pineapple brunoise ... listen that's all good and I promise i'll learn what it all means, post event the point is, as always... taste and flow and when you have talent like this crew I think we can be assured that the results will be stunning.
I've done my best to match up a set of teas that will accompany the night well OK... I was being a bit facetious about the culinary titles because I've had to look into it a bit to pair up the teas.
Let's think a bit about taste & flow the chefs involved in tonights creations are all Master Chefs so taste I think is well covered so hat leaves flow. Flow is a sometimes mysterious thing strange since we all deal with it in our lives everyday.
Flow is movement, rhythm, cadence it has facets and subtleties, think about how you move from room to room in a public space. How do we wish to move? Clumping & clomping like a child walking in his mothers heels
( don't judge! ) leaning against walls and clutching at door frames? or moving about gracefully, floating, sliding effortlessly? Yeah I know it's not really a question... The latter is what fills my expectations, this night will be filled with one off's, sights and tastes I may never see again!
it's Jazz man!
Monk takes the stand and you don't know whats gonna happen but you know it's gonna be a stone gas!
As I sit in the Savour boardroom surrounded by the scent of chocolate & fruit the sound of the occasional ignition of a chefs blowtorch and the clink clank of a kitchen in full production I find myself getting just a bit excited.
Now I smell ... Bacon?
Yeah... a stone gas!

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The JACKSONS , Craig David and a brand new blend

Recently, we got a call here at Serendipitea central ... It was our friends at the Melbourne convention & exhibition centre and they had a very interesting question for us ... "Do you have a tea that would coat, relax & soothe a singers throat?" This is exactly why it great that we are an artisan tea blender... My answer was ... of course we can blend something up for you!
Little did I know that the throats in need of soothing were those of none other than THE JACKSONS.
Long story short... I blended up a mix of Lemon myrtle, mint, liquorice,cinnamon, cardamom, blue marrow flower & black tea and a few other things and sent it over to MCEC. It was a smash!
The next week Craig David played The Plenary and we got another request and again another smash.

So now we're thinking... Why not release it....spread the word far & wide!



Maybe it'll start a sensation ... People will be sipping it from Sydney to Perth!! It may even change the way australia thinks about tea!!

... Ok... Maybe not but hey, it tastes great so look for it soon on Serendipitea.com.au

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A tale of two Rococo's

It seems almost unnecessary to mention this given the spectacular reception we have had ( by the way we thank you all) but SerendipiTea is now available at both Rococo restaurants. Rococo St Kilda was first closely followed by their Hawthorn location.
Rococo came onboard with all guns blazing taking careful consideration of the food pairing ideas we offered and from all reports their clientele are making SerendipiTea welcome at Rococo.
I went on down to Acland street one Sunday morning and paired up Rococo's Ricotta pancakes with lemon & blueberry with SerendipiTea's Fiji tea an absolute taste sensation! So now when you drop in at Rococo you have a place to start.