Tea Business Dreams

Foccacia Tea Sandwich

Five Onion Foccacia and Roasted Vegetable Sandwich Recipe courtesy Emeril Lagasse, 1997 Show: Emeril Live Episode: Hearts of Palm and Vegetable World

This fun sandwich can easily be adapted for a casual or formal tea time event.

2 tablespoons olive oil 1 cup julienned onions 1 cup julienned red onions 1 cup julienned leeks 1/4 cup julienned shallots 2 tablespoons chopped garlic Salt and black pepper 1 envelope (1/4-ounce) active dry yeast 1 tablespoon sugar 1 cup warm water (about 110 degrees F) 1 teaspoon salt 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon vegetable oil 3 tablespoons kosher salt 1 red pepper, roasted and julienned 1 yellow pepper, roasted and julienned 1 small eggplant, roasted and sliced 1 medium beet, roasted, peeled and sliced 1 zucchini, roasted and sliced 1 yellow squash, roasted and slice 1/2 cup mayonnaise with 2 cloves roasted garlic mashed in or plain mayonnaise 1/2 pound sliced Fontina In a saute pan, heat the olive oil. When the oil is hot, add the onions, leeks, and shallots. Saute for 15 minutes, or until the onions are caramelized. Stir in the garlic. Season with salt and pepper. Remove from the heat. Using an electric mixer with a dough hook, whisk the yeast, sugar, and warm water together, for 2 minutes to dissolve the yeast. Add the onion mixture. Add the salt and flour. With the mixer on low, mix until the dough starts to come together. Increase the speed to medium-high and mix until the dough comes away from the sides of the bowl and crawls up to dough hook. Grease a mixing bowl with the vegetable oil. Place the dough in the greased bowl and turn once. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and place in a warm, draft free place until the dough doubles in size about 1 1/2 hours. Turn the dough out onto a baking sheet. Punch the dough and press the dough out to form the size of the pan. Place dough in pan and sprinkle with kosher salt. Cover the dough and allow to double in size, about 45 minutes. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Bake the dough for 30 to 35 minutes or until the dough is golden brown. Slice the bread into 8 to 12 pieces, depending on desired size of the sandwich. Spread each side of roll with the aioli. Divide the roasted vegetables and cheese evenly between each sandwich. Put the sandwiches on a baking sheet and bake in the oven until the sandwiches are hot and the cheese is melted, for about 5 to 8 minutes.

Lady Dawnya's Personal Tea Story

Would you like to know my personal tea story?  Here it is!  Just click the button and turn up your speakers to hear this excerpt from my cd Discover Tea.

Meet Lady Dawnya:

Dawnya Sasse was raised on the road, the child of musicians and quickly gained from a young age, a unique and creative perspective on entertaining. In 1988 Dawnya began traveling to Great Britain, leading tours throughout the United Kingdom. Her passion for Britain and her love of all things theatrical, led her to the creation of Tea Events in the 1990's.

In 1997, Dawnya traveled to Cape Cod, Massachusetts for extensive tea consulting. She enjoyed personal training with Donna and Ron Lasko (New England's Tea Couple). Ms. Sasse went on to study with Pearl Dexter - publisher of Tea - A Magazine and nationally acclaimed tea author James Norwood Pratt, Edward Brahma of the London Brahma Tea Museum among a variety of other tea authorities.

In 2003 Dawnya launched the first online tea training course http://www.Startateabusiness.com allowing students from all over the world to receive tea training from the comfort of their own home. (currently she has taught students in almost every state in the union and 10 foreign countries.)

In 2004 she authored the first complete children's tea party training program entitled Start A Children's Tea Party Business TM. (www.childrensteaparty.com) 2005 found Lady Dawnya busy mixing her passion for history and tea in a new training system entitled http://www.VictorianDays.com and launching the first internet radio station devoted soley to tea. (www.TeaRadio.com) While also producing a series of exciting tea seminars now available on CD. (www.TeaEvents.com)

In 2006 Dawnya kept busy coordinating the first tea business cruise for students of tea around the US and Canada (www.TeaCruise.com) and preparing to relocate and expand the Tea Events headquarters from Bend, Oregon to Washington, Kansas.

Lady Dawnya spent the first 7 years of her tea career working full time as the owner and manager of Tea Events teahouse in Bend, Oregon. In the summer of 2004 she sold the teahouse in order to provide tea related education full-time. She is a past president of The Ladies Tea Guild - Bend, Oregon Chapter (www.Glily.com) and a regular contributing tea author to such periodicals as Bustle, The Gilded Lily ,The Country Register, The Tea House Times and TeaDigest.org.

Her picture and tea house have been featured in various tea related guides such as Teatime in the Northwest. She is the Artistic Director and creator of Victorian Days - A Girl's Camp. (www.VictorianDays.com) and a regular speaker on a variety of tea, etiquette and historical topics.

In her spare time Dawnya enjoys pouring tea for good friends, chasing her cat (Mister) and relaxing with her husband of 17 years. But- a business owner's work is never done and so Lady Dawnya continues to pursue advanced tea education in order to bring her clients "extraordinary tea business training."

Hmmm.. what wonders will this year bring?

Bubble Tea- An Unusual Twist to Tea

Looking for a creative new year's party drink?  Serve Bubble Tea and shake your way into 2007!

Bubble Tea:

For Those Who Like an Unusual Twist to Their Tea

By Dawnya Sasse

No, it’s not bubble gum! Rather, it is bubble tea. If this term sounds strange to you, let’s take a look at the origins of bubble tea and the place it holds in society today.

Are you wondering how bubble tea got its “bubbly” name? Well, this is because when it is shaken it produces a frothy, bubbly texture. Bubble tea is a combination of iced or hot black or green sweetened tea with either milk or fruit flavors added to it.

Therefore, there are two types of bubble tea – fruit-flavored bubble tea and milk bubble tea.The milky bubble teas can be enjoyed with dairy or non-dairy creamers. On the other hand, fruit bubble tea has a wide variety of flavoring that can be added to it – including the tastes of chocolate, coconut, passion fruit, and strawberry. These flavors can be added to the bubble tea as a powder-like substance, juice, syrup or pulp. After all of the extras are added to it, the tea is then shaken in a cocktail shaker or put in a blender. 

Gum-like balls made of cooked tapioca (often referred to as yam starch in Asia) can be added to the bubble tea drink. These balls are sometimes also referred to as “pearls” or “Boba”. They sink to the bottom of the teacup, and are sipped through a wide straw along with the drink.

They have a diameter of about six millimeters or less, and are meant to give the drinker something to chew on between sips of tea. The tapioca pearls have little taste to them, but are typically soaked in sugar or honey after being boiled for a half of an hour. They are good to use for up to seven hours after they are prepared.

If you do not happen to be a fan of tapioca, you can use coconut jelly, coffee jelly, lychee jelly, rainbow jelly, or konjac jelly instead. These types of jellies can be made into small cubes for you to enjoy. Some tea enthusiasts actually order “half and half” bubble teas, with one half tapioca pearls and one half jelly cubes.

New types of bubble teas are constantly coming about.For example, a “Snow Bubble” is the slushy-like version of the bubble tea. It is made with shaved ice and fruit flavoring.

Bubble teas originated in Taiwan, and are highly popular in Asia, including places like China, Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore. It is also gaining popularity in the United States, as well as Europe, Australia and Canada. Bubble tea is available in a variety of small cafes and restaurants around the globe.

These types of places typically serve coffee drinks as well as fruit smoothies and juice drinks. Cafes that sell bubble tea in these countries use plastic dome-shaped lids on their cups to keep the frothiness inside the cup. So don’t be shy… try some bubble tea today and see what the rage is all about!

(C) Dawnya Sasse

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