Category Index: Gourmet Tea Beverages
Discover dozens of tea recipes to make your special beverages even more fun and delicious.
A Fruitful Summer Tea Drink With Some Punch
The Meaning of "Punch" - The Beverage The origin of the name for punch may be somewhat in doubt - some say it comes from the Hindi for “five” since...
Chai Tea Recipes from the T Ching Archives
Chai Tea in the U.S. Masala Chai is one of the traditional ways to drink tea in India where milk is boiled with a sweet spice mixture. The...
Summer Mint Tea Drinks – From Marrakesh to New Orleans
As summer draws on, I find myself relaxing into a slower pace, quitting work earlier and waking up later, all perks of my free-lance existence. ...
Peach Simple Syrup with White Tea
White tea gently enhanced with a fragrant syrup made from stone fruits spells summer for me.
The Healthy Happy Hibiscus
The Beauty of Hibiscus Tea How can you resist something that steeps up to be so beautiful in colour?! However, Hibiscus is not just pretty – it's...
Love in a Cup; Persian Saffron Tea With Rose and Spice
Aromatic tea traditionally served in Iran by the bride to the groom’s family when her family accepts the proposal.
Cantaloupe, Lime, and Black Tea Smoothie
The tea adds extra antioxidants and depth of flavor. It’s so simple, I hope you will try it.
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
Diane shares two delicious recipes for iced lattes – Moroccan Mint with green tea and Blueberry Creme with Rooibos…
Honeydew, Lime, and Rooibos Smoothie
Diane shows you how to make a Honeydew Lime Ginger Rooibos Smoothie…
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.
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.
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…
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...
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...
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...
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.
Boba Secrets
The popularity of boba tea - also known as bubble tea - is growing There are some delicacies best left to chefs and special equipment. Creme...
Green Tea & Rose Lemonade With Honey Hibiscus Syrup
Flavorful, refreshing and healthy iced tea blended beverage recipe
Chai to Remember
When winter is just around the corner in my part of the world (southern California) and our meager amount of rain has begun to fall, my tastes turn to chai. But not just any chain coffeehouse chai, a pale imitation of the real thing. I want bold flavors and the notes of a good tea’s personality on par with the blend of spices in the drink.
Fermented Probiotic Rich Teas (tissanes)
I was quite interested when I read a piece in the India Times about probiotic teas. Most of us are familiar with Kombucha, which has been growing...
Relax With Easy Summer Tea Cocktails
It's summertime, and a good time to take a lighter approach to tea drinking. Iced tea is always a favorite, but tea can also be used in combination...
Creating Fruit and Tea Frappes
Whether you call them frappes or smoothies, they are a low-tech, minimalist path to refreshment, and clearly superior to anything you can get at your local coffee-and-tea emporium.
Spring Cocktails Every Tea Lover Should Know
Guest contribution by Olivia Jones A cold beverage in the backyard oasis is one of the defining childhood images when it comes to memories of spring...
Tea Blending: Rose Petals and Tea Leaves
Rose petals, like tea leaves, have long bewitched throughout history, encompassing poetry affecting both the heart and spirit. The rose’s power to...
Hangover Tisane Recipe
I began studying herbalism in my late teens, and have continued practicing to varying degrees ever since. While in my early college days, the top...
Exploring the Green Tea Smoothie Revolution in Japan
Trends have a way of taking something relatively obscure and pushing it through a "coolness" filter. The latest trend, the green tea smoothie, has...
Christmas Tea Blend 2017
I've been meaning to get back to making a masala chai and a Christmas tea blend, so to clear through both I combined the themes. This also contains...
How To Make a Tasty Green Tea Latte
There are different ways to make a green tea latte, but all of them involve matcha, which is the fine powder made from grinding a special variety of...
What is Milk Tea?
If you have never tried milk tea, you really need to rethink what you order when you go to a café. As amazing as coffee is, sometimes the...
10 Trendy Green Tea Cocktail Recipes
Green tea and matcha aren't just for ceramic tea mugs anymore. Bartenders across the nation have been using green tea and matcha in their trendy...
Springtime Detox: Restart Your Body
Return to T Ching Classics: Springtime for Tea LoversThere’s no better time than spring to clean up your home, your mind, and your body. Like nature...
Turmeric Tea
Did you know that the secret to better health probably has been sitting in your cupboard? Isn't it great when a common ingredient has so many health...
The dos and don’ts of green tea smoothies
Green Tea is a truly remarkable beverage. It's not only versatile and delicious, it’s also extremely beneficial for your health and wellness. Green...
Christmas Tea Blends
I’ve been experimenting with making Christmas tea blends and writing about them lately, so I’ll share a summary of the subject here as well. This...
Friendship Tea
Yes, I just made up that name. For years I've been rather fascinated by Kombucha but hardly fascinated by the taste of it. However, just like many...
Making Thai Iced Tea from Scratch
I recently ran across a recipe for Thai tea, a from-scratch version of the iced milk tea. Here in Thailand, that's often made from a powdered mix,...
Getting Ready for the Summer Iced Tea Season
Startling as it seems, there are bushels of first-of-the-season stone fruits—peaches, apricots, nectarines—at my local farmer's markets and that...
How to Make a Matcha Latte
You have probably seen a field of green in your Instagram lately, and some of you may even have noticed green tea lattes popping up on the menu of...
Matcha green tea latte with zen green tea matcha
The trick to preparing a cafe style matcha green tea latte is to make the tea first, then add the hot milk and foam.
Hot tea and fragrant fruit
It’s hot. It’s summer. And I love to drink hot tea now.
A sun tea inspiration
Today hasn’t been the sunniest day in Los Angeles. I’d like to say that I woke up at six in the morning, cheerfully placed some sun tea on my front porch, and rode my bike to the beach to take a dip in the ocean…
You don’t need to mull it over
Even if there are no chestnuts roasting on an open fire or piles of sugary snow around the door, shortly after Thanksgiving, I turn to my early winter drink of choice: mulled cider with tea and spices. Despite the weather…
Summer Iced Teas With An Extra Kick
What would the scorching summer heat be without freshly brewed iced tea? I always begin my summers missing my daily hot tea … until I brew my first batch of iced tea and I fall in love with it all over again…
Beating summer torpor
For us, summertime usually means a fairly significant slowdown in guest visits, as many of our teahouse friends go on vacation and engage in other activities. We’ve also had to face the perception that (high-end) tea doesn’t really…
Matcha latte
I have been obsessed with matcha for quite some time. I think it is one of the most fabulous things on the planet. Lately though, I have refined my obsession to that of perfecting my matcha latte…
Putting real fruit flavor into tea
Though I love bold-flavored savories and sweets, I’m not a flavored tea fan. Many fruit-flavored teas are unsubtle at best or artificial at worst...