More than 200 recipes using tea as an ingredient in beverages or food….
Comforting Tea and Shortbread
I can’t seem to get enough of a sandy tea shortbread, sugar coated and simple to make.
Tea and Cognac Soaked Dried Fruit Fruitcake
With an array of beautiful dried fruits chopped into bite-sized pieces, walnuts, and a spiced pound cake, this recipe will make you a fruitcake lover.
Tea and Spice Rub Blend for Turkey
Experimenting with tea as a spice rub for your turkey As the holiday season nears, many of us look back to family traditions. So even as a nominal...
Iced Tea Lattes
Diane shares two delicious recipes for iced lattes – Moroccan Mint with green tea and Blueberry Creme with Rooibos…
Asian Pears and Tea
Asian pears poached in tea for a dreamy autumn treat. Best paired with some lightly-whipped cream and some shortbread.
Herb and Tea Pairing; Fantastic Blends With Your Favorite Foods
Experiment by pairing your favorite tea and herbs in cooking and sipping.
Honeydew, Lime, and Rooibos Smoothie
Diane shows you how to make a Honeydew Lime Ginger Rooibos Smoothie…
Falling into Tea, Tofu, and Seasonal Vegetables
I love the taste of smoky tea infused into creamy firm tofu. When cooked quickly over high heat, those blocks of soy milk alchemized into solid form become the perfect foil for seasonal produce…
A Tea Lover Considers; What is it about Boba Tea?
As a tea lover and educator, I’ve never understood the fascination with boba. The results of my recent deep dive …
The Essential Guide to Matcha: Matcha Recipes
I will happily bake, create, and use matcha as an ingredient in my home kitchen. Here are some tips…
Lapsang Souchong Fish
I’m inspired by some wonderful smoky Lapsang Souchong black tea from China that in the cooler weather seems to be beckoning to me from my tea cabinet.
Isn’t That Darjeeling Peachy? Tea-Poached Peaches a la Mode
Summer’s stone fruit bounty draws me on a regular basis to my outdoor farmers’ markets. Boasting many different varieties of peaches, both yellow...
5 Green Tea Smoothies That Will Make You Forget All about Coffee
Enjoy a delicious and healthy smoothie by adding a green tea smoothie to the blend. Recipes with tea and fruit can help you get creative with tea in your diet.
Rice Salad with Tea Vinaigrette
Rice salad is on my menu once again – but with the rice steamed in a delicate Darjeeling tea.
Vanilla Tea
Vanilla Tea, A Luxurious Taste and Aroma Have you ever had a cup of vanilla tea? No, I don't mean the kind with artificial flavoring. But one...
How To Make Barista-Style Shaken Iced Tea
Tea company owner/former barista shows fun, easy way to make ‘better than coffee house’ shaken iced tea at home.
How To Make Tea Gelato
Quite by accident, the house I’m spending time in this summer is equipped with an ice cream maker – something I’d never used before. Since I happened to show up with too much tea (imagine that), I decided to combine the two…
Fruity and Flowery Iced Teas
Nothing synthetic or artificial enters the tea when you make your own fruit syrups.
Om, My-My Matcha
Which approach would you expect gets you more antioxidants from tea – Steeping the leaves in boiling, or near-boiling water, then discarding the leaves and drinking the resulting infusion, or just eating ground tea leaves?
Gallery of Iced Tea Recipes
Iced Tea Recipes Require Ice It wasn't until the 1930's that consumers were able to freeze their own ice cubes and expect to have ice readily and...
Not Your Southern Grandma’s Iced Tea
Summer’s here, which presents some tantalizing options for tea drinkers in general and iced tea lovers in particular. It’s a fun time to throw caution to the wind and mix up some fresh ideas in the glass…
Stone Fruit with Tea and Cookies
Poaching stone fruits lightly in brewed Yunnan tea with its slightly smoky, brisk, and even peppery notes leads to a simple make-ahead dessert.
10 Ways to Enjoy Green Tea with Milk
You already know that green tea is a delicious, healthy beverage, but you might not be aware of just how versatile your favorite tea can be. A wide...
Loquats and Apricots: A Celebration of Spring in a Bowl of Tea
At this time of year, when the season of abundant citrus fruits has just passed and summer’s locally grown stone fruits seem months away, there are...
Tea and Vegetable Tonic
At this time of year, I’m hankering for a vegetarian tonic, with a trio or quartet of vegetables – and tea.
Rhubarb and Tea
With its pinkish, reddish, and often greenish stalks, rhubarb stars here with oolong in an utterly simple dessert.
Homemade Matcha Mints
Can I combine the ubiquitous breath mint with my beloved green tea? Yes, you can combine the two very easily!
Tea Rub For Biltong
Tea rubs offer fragrant characteristics that will enhance your favourite recipes and help create brand new ones.
Tea-Sauced Duck With Haunting Flavors
In the deep, dark winter of our discontent, with tea like an old friend, it’s time to splurge a bit on a tea-sauced duck breast for dinner.
Walnut Crisp in Filo with Tea and Honey Syrup
Flowing out of my new joy in the cup is an idea for a festive but rather simple dessert.
The Best Teas To Pair With Your Barbecue
From tea marinades to refreshing beverages, here are the best teas to pair with your grilled treats.
T Ching Classics: Decadent Holiday Tea Desserts
As the holidays grow ever nearer, it's not uncommon for the desire for rich desserts to increase as well. Here are some classic desserts improved by...
A Ducky Holiday Season? Tea Makes It So
Thanksgiving is already a memory, albeit one based on a scaled down of the normal food coma-inducing versions of years past. And the holidays to...
T Ching Classics: Holiday Cookies for Tea
Now that it's December, the holiday baking season has truly begun. Even if this year's social distancing requirements mean that you might need to...
Authentic Irish Breakfast Tea & Irish Scones
Here at T Ching, we are proud to be featuring these delightful and informative videos by Diane Walden of Cal Teas. Here is a video where she talks...
Nine Ways to Sweeten Sencha Green Tea – Part 1
Japanese Green Tea is a wonderful drink for many reasons: In many communities it’s an affordable drink, in others it’s a component to history and/or...
Fuyu and Lapsang
Tea and fruit are a tried-and-true combination; think about all the popular flavored teas where fruit, either dried or flavors created in a lab (not...
Loose Leaf Tea Chai Latte at Home
Here at T Ching, we are proud to be featuring these delightful and informative videos by Diane Walden of Cal Teas. Up next is this video where she...
Tres Leches and Tea
This is a time for indulgence, a time of why not. My indulgence? I want to eat cake every day. Baking for me provides Zen moments of calm and focus...
Falling Into Tea With Books, a Tea-Tinged Reflection
With the turning of the season, does your tea habit change? Cooler nights lead me to drink more of our favorite beverage.
Tea, Lemon, and Honey Curd: A Trio of Creamy Contentment
Tea, lemon, and honey are a classic trio. Shaking them up a bit, I like to take them in a new direction when combining them to create a creamy lemon...
Celebrating the Season With Fragrant Melon and Tea
With seemingly not much to celebrate in our world at the moment, Mother Nature and those who assist her (the growers, the pickers, the cultivators,...
Creamy Tea or Is It Tea Cream?
Spring has come and nearly gone with summer on its way. Iced tea season is almost upon us, though even on the hottest days a hot cuppa soothes. But...
Giving Iced Tea a Whirl
Given the public’s insatiable thirst for ready-to-drink bottled or canned tea, most of which is consumed cold or over ice, it seems it’s always iced tea weather. Despite an abiding love for hot tea, I like to brew up a cuppa and chill it down, no matter what the thermometer says outside.
Time For Tea—Tea Ice Cream, That Is
Return to T Ching Classics: Tea Ice Cream Casting caution to the winds—with the world going to hell in a handbasket or tea caddy—and going to great...
Hot Comfort For a Discomforting Time
Tea is comfort. Tea is ritual. Tea is an escape to another place even within the confines of your own home. Easing tensions in an uncertain time, I...
Crèmes de la Crème
Return to Tea Treats For Snowy Days Five ways to flavor whipped cream with tea. As we hunker down to the heart of winter (which nonetheless feels...
New Year’s Resolution: Drink A New Tea This Year
As we enter the new year, I reflect on the annual excitement I feel when leafing through the pages of any of a number of seed catalogues that fill...
Homemade Tea Gifts in Jars (Chai Spice “Kit”)
Finalist in the 2019 Writers Contest – Cooking With Tea Category See the Writers Contest rules and full ongoing list of finalists The winter holiday...
Frui-Tea Cake, California Style—Festive and Moist
This time of year, I think of “Oh my? It’s fruitcake weather!” — one of the memorable lines in Truman Capote’s wonderfully incisive portrait of his...