This is what a kilogram of ginger looks like

Recently Katie put a question on Instagram about growing her own ginger, because she was spending a house deposit on fresh ginger, for fresh ginger tea. I got inspired, and used some of the ginger I had received in my weekly grocery box for ginger tea. Delicious.
So I ordered a kilo of fresh ginger. I gave half of the kilogram to Katie, and put a third of the remaining lot in whisky, to preserve it - also so at the end I'll have ginger that tastes like whisky, and whisky that tastes like ginger.

The ginger was making our tea pot taste like ginger, and it was almost impossible to clean out between uses. I love ginger, but probably don't need everything to taste of it all the time.. I also realised that our cafietiere would be better, because it has a filter, and our tea pot doesn't. BUT the cafetiere didn't have a cosy, and this tea needs to steep. So I crocheted one! I haven't picked up the hook since July last year, and it's always fun to get back to it.

It came out quite well, it's a little bit loose, but we would struggle to get it on and off if it was much tighter. Mainly though it keeps the tea warm while it steep and steeps and steeps. We're going away for the weekend (in a car, down to the great Ocean Road), and I am seriously considering bringing this, and a few hundred grams of ginger to get us through what is meant to be a couple of cold, rainy days.

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