cafe, slated to open May 29 at 500 NW 23rd Ave on the late namesake teamakerâs birthday.
The vegetarian, plant-focused menu will incorporate Smithâs teas into dishes in creative ways, ranging from jasmine-roasted beets to sheepâs cheese infused with tea powder. âMy goals were, how can we highlight our teaâ[creating] a new tea time, in a sense?â Holl says.
The Smith bowl, made with sencha-infused quinoa and chai-spiced walnuts.
Hollâs approach to working with tea as an ingredient? Use it like a spiceâsparingly, not overpoweringly. Jasmine tips replace the thyme sprigs heâd typically use to roast a rainbow of beets; the beets are then thinly sliced like sandwich meat, layered with avocado, veggies, and powdered White Petal tea blended into sheepâs cheese, all sandwiched between Grano Bakeryâs spelt bread to make the Garden Sandwich. For one of his breakfast cups, Holl will combine coconut yogurt with Red Nectar tea-infused stra
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Washington Post, and others have reported that when the show is filmed, the âhuntersâ are typically already in contract on a home to which theyâve agreed to wait to move into; the other two homes toured during the show are there for dramatic effect.)Â
Par for the course for reality television, Caughman and McGinnis were gently nudged to play up their supposed differences for the cameraâin their case, Caughmanâs skepticism over McGinnisâs ability to manage DIY home-reno projects. In reality, Caughman says, she didnât doubt her partner, and in the months since filming theyâve redone the bathroom and kitchen floors on their own, installed new carpeting, redone their baseboards, replaced their refrigerator and dishwasher, and tended to the garden that sold them on the house in the first place. (Theyâve also added their baby boy, Nico, born last fall.)