mostly water - with a hint of summer flavors

It's mid August and the summer heat has finally hit us here up in the mountains, where you need room heating about three quarters of a year. Still, nothing compared to what I survived in Tokyo every year for most of my life, but even here it can get hotter than I'd rather like every now and then. And I find myself swapping a glass of something cold (or lukewarm) for a warm cup of tea that I usually drink throughout the day on any given day.


That's often cold-brew sencha (green tea) or genmaicha (roasted brown rice tea, with some matcha to it), or just plain water.

But for the past week or two I've been experimenting with something a little different - like this chamomile mint water with cardamom, for instance.

picking summer fruits and a little more...

Another month goes, and and here's another one of my futile effort to post something at least once a month (typically at the very end of one). I was going to write about how we racked up more summer fruits than we could handle this month, but I seem to be running out of time (again), so today I'm just posting some photos from a day we went berry picking earlier the month.



...But before then, we also went to pick apricots!

flavors june, from near and far

Last month chamomile, and this month, this. I might just as well change the name of my blog to she who eats flowers. Maybe.