Eric Gower

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You're on a Boat and You're Making Tea Journal

You're on a Boat and You're Making Tea

You’re on a boat. You didn’t build it, and you don't have the option of stepping off; you're just ... on it. It carries you whether you like it or not, and whatever direction you face is more or less a "forward" direction. 

Brewing Green Kokoro Tutorials

Brewing Green Kokoro

Brewing Green Kokoro (matcha-infused genmaicha) is dead simple and quick. 

Buckwheat Soba Noodles with Matcha Pea Pesto Cooking With Matcha

Buckwheat Soba Noodles with Matcha Pea Pesto

It's rare for dishes to be equally good served warm or cold, but this is one of them. Good soba noodles are such a delight; they have an earthy, almost nutty flavor and a great mouthfeel and texture. Buckwheat is a pseudo grain related to rhubarb, and the seeds produce a creamy, nutty flour. The pea

Matcha Bark Cooking With Matcha

Matcha Bark

There’s something about randomly shaped no-bake treats that dazzle the eyes first then the palate. This is such an excellent accompaniment to hyperpremium matcha — we especially like it with the Blend 94, whose earthy notes pierce the sweet/savory bark in such a satisfying way. 

Tips for Making Excellent Gyokuro Tutorials

Tips for Making Excellent Gyokuro

Brewing gyokuro isn’t like brewing other teas. Learn how to coax maximum awesomeness from these delicate and wonderful leaves.

Fluffy Herby Eggs Cooking With Matcha

Fluffy Herby Eggs

Adding Greek yogurt makes eggs almost unbearably creamy and fluffy and airy and light.

Matcha Frittata Cooking With Matcha

Matcha Frittata

Frittata, omelet, whatever you want to call it, this is on solid rotation at our house.

Matcha Popcorn Cooking With Matcha

Matcha Popcorn

Who knew that matcha goes so well with popcorn? A must try!

New Pause Eric's Letters

New Pause

I’m starting to use my phone as a super simple and super effective nudge toward having better days.

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