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 much the rest of the time. My favorite get-mellow-with-a-book drinks tend to be tea concoctions made with warm spices and healthy fats. Teas subtly infuse blended drinks with interesting flavors: each one adding its own unique stamp. It doesn’t hurt that teas also provide healing properties […]
Pau d’Arco Apple Spice Tea and Pau D’Arco Passion Latte
Herbal teas are probably the single most comforting and healing drink to me. Now there’s a bold statement. But it’s true. I can’t think of a time when I didn’t turn to one herbal 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. Things seem more chaotic and pressured then. It’s just too easy to abandon common sense and start stepping outside my optimum health boundaries. A little extra immune support by way of an herbal tea […]
Iced Minty Matcha Green Tea Latte
I’ve always loved green tea lattes and made a point of ordering one whenever they were in sight. It didn’t take me long to realize though that while commercial green tea lattes were convenient they were definitely leaving me agitated and ultimately fatigued. There needed to be a better way to enjoy this exotic drink without compromising the flavor or authenticity and my health. Fresh homemade green tea latte. Just the idea alone made me crave it. Maybe I’d even go father and add in matcha tea. A double dose of a very good thing. As you may already know, commercial green tea lattes often use ingredients that us erstwhile […]