Thursday 6 October 2011

Serving Tea

Living in a relationship where the dominant partner does not fully understand her actual control over me, I pride myself in being service oriented and preparing breakfast, lunch and dinner as often as I can without interfering with my partner's desires. 

Whilst she seems to enjoy this, I have a constantly evolving desire to serve a more formal afternoon tea, purely serving her in the role of a waiter. Certainly this should be much more upscale than PG Tips and M&S scone.

The tea service would start with her being formally escorted to the seat and offered a menu. The guest could chose from a selection of drinks of fine origin and processing such as:
  • Ti Kuan Yin - Traditionally Oolong teas are the heavy morning teas. The 'iron goddess of mercy' tea is a much lighter variety, resembling white teas with light floral undertones instead of the buttery flavour of the average Oolong.
  • Jasmin Silver Needle - White tea with just the finest and youngest tea leaves infused with the scents of the jasmin flower.
  • Pu'er (Shou variety) - The grounding and mellow Pu'erh with a twist, select between brewed for as little as 45 seconds to keep it nice and sweet and avoid the bitterness or enjoy a second infusion, full flavoured but milder and softer in flavour than the harsh first brew.
Alongside I would love to serve:
  • Fresh organic scones - right from the oven
  • Home made rich clotted cream
  • 'Labour of Love' strawberry jam with self picked strawberries, allowed to mature over 3 days before being reheated, to give it a rich fruity and sweet flavour and a dark texture, based on a Thane Prince recipe.
From heading out to pick the strawberries myself to preparing the clotted cream, creating a tea menu, printing it on 'menu' cards to finally preparing and heating the scones, what I like about this idea is that essentially there are hours of preparation that culminate in only an hour or two for the actual tea service. Yet even during the service I am the waiter, the serving staff and my whole purpose is for her to enjoy herself, I would have dedicated all this time on her pleasure. 

The trouble is, that she will enjoy this in company and the company she usually would have would think that it is a little odd for me to serve her with this level of dedication?

Help, what can I do!

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