Funny how grains can smell so wonderful when you toast them a bit.
My husband orders special organic corn tortillas. He toasts them very lightly in a skillet before he adds his filling for lunch. The aroma of those damn tortillas toasting drives me crazy. Oddly, they smell like some divine Japanese incense wafting through the house... unbelievably lovely smell. I try not to eat them because they don't fit in my eating plan very well. D'oh! 

The grains are raw.  I roast them in a skillet till they get slightly darker and give off a pleasing nutty scent.

Is the rice or barley already cooked when you pan toast it? Or raw grain?

I like toasting raw pine nuts (pignoli) lightly in a pan before adding them to pesto pasta or salads. It really brings out the wonderful aroma and flavor.

I sometimes dry pan roast brown rice or barley and add it to green tea.

I do love Gen-mai Cha as well.

Where I forced, and it would take a dire circumstance, to choose a single tea I'd have Gen-mai cha or Kongoshimi for green and St. Issacs's Blend from Upton for a black tea. Of course Earl Grey is the choice of Captain Picard, this is a high credit.  

Golden milk recipes can vary, but most involve both some hot milk and some turmeric... plus a few other spices like cinnamon, cardomom, pepper, etc...and perhaps a sweetener.
I eat some turmeric in one form or another every day, for its anti-inflammatory properties. It seems to work well and agrees with me.

Lapsang- i guess I am not as much into it these days, not sure why.

Dreams- I regularly have all kinds of wild adventurous vivid dreams.. a little more than I'd even like to have, so no 'dream tea' for me! 

If you could only drink one kind of tea, what would it be?
A hard choice, but I guess mine might be Kukicha.

No longer liking Lapsang? And yes it does have that hamish scent.   What is this, "golden milk"?  I have heard of it but have no idea what it is.  I also get a tea from Rose Mountain Herbs, a dream tea which does seem to have a dream enhancing effect.

I used to love Lapsang Souchong tea. I would sometimes visit Chinatown in NYC and get teas, or order from a Japanese site online.

When my daughters were in middle school, sometimes when they got home from school they take a sniff in the kitchen and say "Mommy are you making that ham tea again?" (meaning the lapsang s. which kinda smells like smoked ham if you think about it)

I blend my own masala for chai and it often accompanies breakfast.  My main tea source is Upton in MA, though I have had some nice tea from Harney, too.  Rooibos I get at the grocers, usually Celestial Seasonings.  Oh, from Upton I recently got a ginger and beetroot, caffeine free, very tasty.

There's a nice traditional spice chai tea powder I like, made by Blue Lotus. I make it with half hot milk, and I also add some turmeric and ground black pepper, so it's a bit like 'golden milk'. Really warms me up on cold evenings.

For every day I like either Tazo's lotus blossom green tea, or Harney's black Ceylon decaf.

One of my grown daughters is addicted to rooibos tea and drinks it at least twice a day for years now. I can dig it. Rooisbos reminds me of root beer or sassafras. 

Do you have a favorite tea?  I had a very nice Lapsang Shougong today.