The winter season always seems to nudge me in the direction of making warmer spicier beverages. I often feel the need to get cozy and just curl up with a good book while sipping on an intense drink, especially during the holidays. It’s such a great time to hunker down and delve into some serious reading and sipping that I don’t get around to the rest of the time. My favorite get-mellow-with-a-book drinks tend to be tea concoctions made with warm spices, natural sweeteners, and healthy fats such as coconut and nuts. Teas subtly infuse blended drinks with interesting flavors: each one adding its own unique stamp. It doesn’t hurt […]
Pau d’Arco Apple Spice Tea and Pau D’Arco Passion Latte
Teas are probably the single most comforting and healing drink to me. Now there’s a bold statement if I ever heard one. But I mean it. I can’t think of a time when I didn’t turn to one tea or another to help me recover from some health issue Iced Matcha Green Tea Latte while providing great taste in the process. As a rule, I tend to drink more herbal teas in the Fall and Winter when I feel most vulnerable to viruses. Things seem more chaotic and pressured then. It’s just too easy to abandon common sense and start pushing good health boundaries. A little extra immune support by way […]
Iced Minty Matcha Green Tea Latte
I developed this recipe with a certain purpose in mind…making a homemade green tea latte. It sounded so good to me that I just had to give it a try. I’ve always loved these refreshing lattes but started to avoid them because of the artificially spiked energy burst and post-drink fatigue I felt afterwards. Fresh homemade green tea latte…with matcha tea. A double dose of a very good thing. As you may already know, commercial green tea lattes often use ingredients that may not agree with you and certainly don’t improve your health. Steamed pasteurized milk and/or canned sweetened condensed milk is typically used which may or may not be […]