Cooking With Tea - Matcha cookies

More than 200 recipes using tea as an ingredient in beverages or food….

Iced Tea To A New Level

Iced Tea To A New Level

Think of these beverages as iced tea evolved to a higher level. Summer’s here and nothing quenches like a properly prepared glass of iced tea. ...

The Importance of Cucumber Sandwiches

The Importance of Cucumber Sandwiches

I’ve recently spoken with several people about Oscar Wilde’s comedy of manners and mistaken identity, “The Importance of Being Earnest”, and posed...

Matcha Soft Serve

Matcha Soft Serve

Soft serve can get a little boring, but adding some yummy Matcha makes it the perfect blend of sweet and spunky.

Earl Grey Pot De Crème

Earl Grey Pot De Crème

When my world gets a touch hectic, I frequently turn to the simple pleasures of life to help me pause and enjoy the world around me.  For me,...

Kukicha Citrus Pacific Sole

Kukicha Citrus Pacific Sole

I often combine my passions and this tea adventure - a combination of tea and food - was no different.  Kukicha, a green tea, has great citrus notes...

Oolong Tea Eggs

Oolong Tea Eggs

Many tea-drinking countries continue to perfect their versions of this popular street food.

Caramel Tea Cake

Caramel Tea Cake

What’s better than tea with caramel and cream? A tea cake flavored with tea and caramel and then topped off with a tea-flavored whipped cream. For those rare occasions when I want to put something into my tea, I give into the urge and add heavy…

Tea and Easter Eggs

Tea and Easter Eggs

I stumbled across instructions for dying Easter eggs with tea. The recipe, if you could call it that, was surprisingly simple: So I couldn’t resist trying it out.

Best Teas for Joint Pain Management

Best Teas for Joint Pain Management

Joint pain is quick to hinder our mobility as well as decrease our fervor in life. It manifests as inflammation, which is usually characterized by swollen joints, redness, loss of joint function and stiffness.

Dirty Chai

Dirty Chai

Dirty chai is a beverage wherein a shot or two of espresso is added to a cup of chai or a chai latte.

Iced Tea Lattes

Iced Tea Lattes

Diane shares two delicious recipes for iced lattes – Moroccan Mint with green tea and Blueberry Creme with Rooibos…

Lapsang Souchong Fish

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.

Vanilla 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 Tea Gelato

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…

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

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

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…