Are you a coffee person or tea person, or possibly an espresso addict?  For some reason coffee disagrees with me, and I’m not really a tea person either.  But I do love ‘doing coffee’ with friends and chatting hours and hours. I love Japanese brown teas such as Genmai cha, Mugi cha and Houji cha, but since they are not easy to find in cafes in the UK, I normally have English style tea with milk (we call it ko cha in Japanese).

When you are pregnant it can be difficult to decide if you should drink any tea or coffee. When I was pregnant I avoided Green Tea as it contains a large amount of caffeine. Regular decaf tea was the obvious choice, but it was a bit boring and I wanted more options to replace all the wine I couldn’t drink anymore.

When I stayed at my friend Aki’s house in Osaka, she made me really nice Indian style tea every morning.  She boiled milk and added some tea leaves with some spices and honey before putting the lid on to make leaves dance around, giving the best flavour. It was wonderful.

Do you have any top tea making tips?

Oscar loves tea breaks too!

Aki is great in the kitchen

Tomono x

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