Herbal Teas for Colds and Headaches
A tea that’s good to make at the first feeling of scratchiness in your throat is a combination of fresh minced ginger, fresh lemon juice, and raw honey or rock sugar.
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How to Make: Chai Latte
The spices are super strong, the tea-to-milk ratio is perfect, it’s cheaper and has no weird preservatives or additives. While the tea is warm and the milk is frothy, let’s just sip, savoring the new season upon us. This also works well iced with cold instead of steamed milk.
Eight Treasures Tea: An Elixir From Ancient China
Shennong meaning “Divine Farmer,” lived some 5,000 years ago and taught the ancient Chinese agriculture and how to use herbs to treat their ailments.
It’s Easy Going Green: Hormone Balance and Green Tea
Here are three great benefits of green tea:
• Green tea stimulates your metabolism.
• It contains antioxidants, making it a good cancer-fighting and immune-boosting beverage.
• It simultaneously relaxes you and boosts your brainpower.
How to Make: Kumquat Tea
Kumquat tea is a therapeutic treatment for sore throats and for anyone who is in need of some nerves soothing.
Kumquats, unlike other citrus fruits, is eaten whole. Yes, including the skins! They have tons of health benefits too!
Tea Sets
Ancient Chinese tea sets generally refer to the tools used to pick, produce, store, make, and drink tea. The four basic elements for making a good cup of tea are quite important…
Coffee Lovers Rejoice! National Coffee Day is Today
Coffee lovers around the nation might not day off work on National Coffee Day, but they can celebrate with a cup of one of the world’s most popular drinks. Some local and national businesses are offering free or discounted cups of coffee.
Thai Iced Tea (Cha Yen)
We normally make 10 gallons at a time using big pot. However, for readers who may interested in making this tea at home, we have reduced the portion accordingly.
Cool off with Lemonade and Iced Tea
Find a nice shady corner in the garden to cool off and sip on these two favourite refreshing summertime drinks. The simple lemonade recipe is sweet and tangy, delicious with just the right tart-to-sweet ratio.
GALLERY
Show works of visual art, art galleries are sometimes used to host other artistic activities. Gallery art is a building or space for the exhibition of art.
Gourmet coffee made from civet droppings
Kopi luwak coffee is made from coffee beans that are eaten and excreted by civets. Products are often mislabeled as “wild-sourced”, but many civets are actually confined to small, barren cages.
Why You Should Not Drink Coffee When You Are Tired
Coffee has been part of human culture for a long time. It has a great history and besides its ritualistic use, it is most commonly regarded as an “upper” by people who wake up early, have to stay up late, or feel tired in the middle of the day.
The Mathematics of a Perfect Cup of Coffee
Drip filter coffee is made by pouring hot water over a bed of ground coffee beans, otherwise known as grains, housed in a filter. Gravity pulls water through the filter, dissolving the coffee into the liquid on its way through.
3 Best Coffee Alternatives
Three coffee substitutes to get you through the day (and off the exhausting caffeine treadmill).
Dandelion Tea tastes a lot like coffee. You can drink this roasty-flavored tea as you would coffee—black, white, and with a little sweetener. The Chinese drink this beverage to heal and cleanse the liver.
Chai Tea is rich, sweet and spicy—a perfect comfort drink with a third-less caffeine than coffee. Cinnamon, cardamon, ginger, black pepper, and cloves soothe the lungs and promote circulation. In Ayurvedic medicine, Chai tea is thought to be calming, clarifying, and revitalizing for both mind and body.
DIY: Dairy-Free Coffee Creamer
I was a little exited when I came across this recipe for Dairy-Free Coffee Creamer from Mind Body Green. If you are also on a dairy-free path, or are just curious, I hope you will enjoy it too.