Seattle writer Tantri Wija regularly amazes us with unique alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages featured in The Seattle Times. Recently, she wrote about Himalayan butter tea which powers sherpas up Mt. Everest and the like. Wow! We want some. She describes it as a power smoothie. Okay! Except…. We don’t have any yak butter on hand or pu-erh tea. We could probably find grass-fed cow butter as a substitute but that would require a trip to the store.
Yet being anxious to prep for today’s Sherpa-level rowing workout, we dropped some regular butter in some regular black tea. Let’s just say we never tasted anything quite like it (and possibly won’t ever again). But what about the workout? Coated-tongue in mouth, we climbed on the rower and quickly exceeded all our previous workouts. Not really. Our workout plan usually includes a pre-workout concoction that includes caffeine. But telling people that our workout regimen includes cow butter tea, well, that’s worth something! And we’ll be sure to order Himalayan butter tea, the real thing, if we ever get to the Himalyans.
Next, butter coffee. Yeah. That’s a thing, too. We’ve apparently not been paying attention.
Climb every mountain…..
- Jet Cannon
