This category includes guides on steeping tea, blending tea and growing herbs for tea. Â It also includes wellness information on which herbal teas best help with specific health problems.
Herbal teas can have medicinal properties for sure, but that doesn’t mean they need to taste medicinal!
Try some of these blends for health AND for flavor. Then grow a few of your own herbs with our guides and enjoy tea and herbal tea year-round.
Quick Summary: High tea is a hearty working-class evening meal served around 5-6 pm with substantial savory food, while afternoon tea is a lighter, more elegant gathering served between 3-5 […]
What’s the Difference Between Afternoon Tea and High Tea? Read Post »
Quick Summary: Turmeric tea tastes best when blended with complementary ingredients like ginger, cinnamon, citrus, or black pepper. These 13 blend recipes range from simple steeping blends to simmered golden
How to Make Turmeric Tea Taste Better: 13 Blend Recipes Read Post »
Tea, meet vodka! This refreshing green tea martini with a dash of mint is the perfect pick-me-up drink. Easy to whip up for a crowd, turn it into your signature
Minty Green Tea Martini Read Post »
Quick Summary: These raspberry scones use brewed Earl Grey tea as the liquid instead of cream or eggs, creating a moist, flavorful pastry that’s not dry or crumbly. The tea
Raspberry Black Tea Scones: No Eggs or Cream Needed Read Post »
Tea and coffee make a surprisingly good combination with chai, and this chai espresso martini proves it. The homemade chai simple syrup and chai-infused vodka add warming spice to the
Chai Espresso Martini with Homemade Chai Simple Syrup Read Post »
Quick Summary: 10 creative ways to use chai tea spice blends beyond the basic latte. Includes drinks (iced chai, boba, Frappuccino, protein shakes), a simple syrup, and baked goods (cupcakes,
10 Creative Ways to Use Chai Spices (Beyond the Latte) Read Post »
Quick Summary: Spruce tips are the tender new growth on spruce trees, harvested in spring. They’re citrusy, resinous, and high in vitamin C. Harvest from healthy, mature trees away from
Foraging Spruce Tips: How to Harvest and Use Them for Tea, Syrup, and More Read Post »
This guide covers four drying methods, proper storage, and a refreshing iced chamomile tea recipe to try with your harvest. Quick Summary: Drying your own herbs is simple and gives
How to Dry Herbs for Tea: 4 Methods That Work Read Post »
Quick Summary: Ponche navideño is Mexico’s traditional Christmas punch, a warm, spiced fruit drink simmered with tejocote, guava, cinnamon, and piloncillo. Served throughout Las Posadas (the nine-day celebration leading to
Ponche: Traditional Mexican Christmas Drink (Plus Regional Variations) Read Post »
When I work with blending my HeathGlen teas for the farmers market, I have to be particularly careful with additions to white tea, as it is a light tea that
White Tea Cocktail with Cucumber, Honey, and Thyme Read Post »
Quick Summary: Nine traditional Mexican drinks and frozen treats to beat summer heat. From creamy horchata to tangy agua de Jamaica to icy raspados, these recipes are easy to make
9 Refreshing Mexican Drinks for Hot Summer Days (Non-Alcoholic) Read Post »
Quick Summary: Blending your own herbal teas is easier than you think, and the results taste far better than anything from a store. This guide walks you through a simple
How to Blend Herbal Teas: A Beginner’s Guide with 9 Recipes Read Post »
Quick Summary: These ten herbs are easy to grow in containers or garden beds and produce flavorful homemade herbal blends for tea. Chamomile, mint, lavender, lemon balm, and rosemary are
10 Best Herbs for a Beginners Herbal Tea Garden Read Post »
Quick Summary: This vegetable tart features roasted carrots on a store-bought puff pastry with a tangy lemon-ricotta and goat cheese filling. Perfect for spring celebrations, brunch, or pairing with afternoon
Easy Carrot Tart with Goat Cheese and Ricotta Filling Read Post »
Quick Summary: Six themed herb garden combinations for containers: Mediterranean cooking, Mexican cooking, seafood dishes, craft cocktails, herbal teas, and fresh salads. Each grouping considers which herbs grow well together
Herb Combinations That Grow Well Together in Pots: 6 Cooking Themes Read Post »
Quick Summary: Group container herbs by growing conditions for success. Sun-loving herbs: basil, rosemary, sage, oregano, thyme, lavender. Shade-tolerant: parsley, cilantro, mint, chives. Moisture-loving: basil, mint, cilantro, parsley, chives. Drought-tolerant:
Growing Herbs in Containers: Combinations by Cuisine, Climate, and Use Read Post »
Enhance your Hygge lifestyle and learn to make a Golden Milk Latte (aka Turmeric Tea)
Turmeric Golden Milk Tea: A Cozy Hygge Drink for Winter Read Post »
Recipes for craft cocktails for Earth Day using green tea syrup. Includes a Green tea collins and green tea grasshopper dink and a radish appetizer tray.
Radish Cream Cheese Appetizers with Citrus Vodka Collins Read Post »
Rosemary sabels are a cookie similar to shortbread that pair nicely with citrus cocktails.
Rosemary Sablé Cookies: A Savory French Cookie for Tea Time Read Post »
