Every Steeped Tea consultant probably approaches her business slightly differently, putting her own touch on things - after all, she's an independent representative, working for herself, but not by herself.
Recently, one of Steeped's consultants held an open house for her customers and hostesses and featured a lot of great Steeped Tea products used in innovative ways:
This drink table featured Spiked Iced Tea, Berry Sangria, Fiery Chili Hot Chocolate (NEW!!!), and a flowering tea ball (these are about great taste and beautiful presentation - a real wow!).
In addition to lovely beverages to sample, Kelly went all out with the nibblies, too:
She marinated 4 kinds of meat in different Steeped Tea rubs to create a Sweet and Spicy Chai Chicken, Smoky Tea-ki Pork Chops, Steeped Herbes de Provence Chicken, and Smoky Tea-ki Barbecue Sauced Pork Chops.
With the meat cooked and sliced into bite size pieces, the plates were placed on a buffet with some other yummy sounding Steeped Tea inspired dishes - Fruit Tea muffins and Toffee Crunch muffins, 4 different dips and things to dip, mushroom ciabata bread, cucumber tomato salad with a Steeped inspired chamomile vinaigrette, and crackers with Steeped Strawberry Jalapeno salsa and cream cheese.
Kelly put a lot of effort into her open house, but she says it was worth it, and by the comments made by her guests, they enjoyed it.
Not all consultants will offer an open house of this nature to their customers and hostesses, but if yours does, you should try to take the opportunity to try new products and see the products used in ways you may not have considered.
If you are a Steeped Tea hostess with a party coming up, why not ask your consultant what items you need to shop for to offer your guests one or two of these food items or beverages? It will likely increase your sales, present tea in a whole new and fun way to your guests and change the atmosphere of your tea party.
Have you enjoyed tea in a unique not-in-a-cup way? Do you use tea in your recipes? We'd love to hear about it!