Culinate.com
If you are at all interested in food and cooking, please go check out this wonderful website called www.culinate.com . It is really cool. You can create a member page and post recipes that you have created. My username is : teaisfun, so search for my page and check out the recipes that I posted. They regularly have a column by the fantastic Deborah Madison, book reviews, recipes and articles. They also bring up great topics on food that will definitely get you thinking. So head on over to Culinate.com and create a member page and start posting your recipes.
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The Turkey Was…..
delicious. The best turkey our group of friends have cooked up in quite awhile. It was the first year that we wrapped the turkey in its own tinfoil sleeping bag for the majority of its time spent in the oven. We then zipped off the top and cranked up the heat and began to baste. Moist and delicious was the result. It was a very classic Turkey Day feast filled with garlic mashed potatoes, sweet yams, squash, stuffing, green bean casserole, cranberries and cranberry jelly. Oh, and plenty of rich homemade gravy to smother everything with. Last but not least we finished with a creamy pumpkin pie and a maple syrup pecan pie with a nice scoop of homemade chai ice cream nestled in between the two. Scrumptious! Below is the recipe for the Foxfire Masala Chai Ice Cream.
FOXFIRE MASALA CHAI ICE CREAM
2c heavy whipping cream (chilled)
1c whole milk
1/2c sugar (we used super fine)
8 tsp of Foxfire Masala Chai
RECIPE
1. add milk and chai to a saucepan and heat over low for 10-12 minutes or until strong enough
2. filter mixture through a fine mesh strainer to get all the chai out, add sugar, stir and let chill
3. add heavy whipping cream and chilled chai milk mixture into ice cream maker
4. run machine for 25-30 minutes or until thick
5. transfer ice cream to plastic container and freeze
It’s that easy.
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Happy Turkey Day!
An early Turkey day wish to all of you. I hope your day will be filled with friends, family and full stomachs. Foxfire Teas will be closed on Thanksgiving Day and the following Friday, returning to regular hours on Saturday.
Turkey is Fun!
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Foxfire Holiday Sale
Thanks to all of you who ventured down to our space for the Holiday SALE. We really appreciate your business and look forward to seeing you all soon. Have a great Turkey Day!
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Blooming Teas
Blooming teas are amazing to watch open. They remind me of when I was little and my parents would get me the tiny little dinosaur out of the 25 cent machine and when you added water it became this giant toy, or at least it seemed giant when I was little. These blooming teas are great for kids and adults. The coolest thing about them is that you can drink the tea as well, and it is really good. When your done drinking the tea, just poor more water over the blooming tea and you can have the visual experience for a few more days.
Ideas for blooming teas:
- Steep them like normal tea and enjoy the wonderful jasmine flavor
- Steep them in a nice big wine glass and watch them unfurl right in front of your eyes
- Steep them in that wine glass or a large vase like I have done and use it as an inexpensive centerpiece than will invoke conversation
- Give them to friends for the Holidays!
- Use as stocking stuffers
White Jasmine Ladder Blooming Tea
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Matcha Chocolate Banana
Yum and Yum!
So we got a new shipment of this super delicious matcha in and I have been wanting to put it in and on everything that I eat or drink. This is the latest idea and it turned out pretty good. It would also be really good rolled in chopped nuts.
Ingredients:
- Melting chocolate (whatever kind you like)
- Matcha for Cooking
- bananas
- bamboo skewers
Directions:
- Peel banana, cut in half and skewer
- Dust the banana with matcha for cooking
- Melt the chocolate with a double boiler
- Cover the banana with melted chocolate
- Dust with matcha for cooking
- Freeze
- Invite some friends over and enjoy!
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Hot Matcha Cereal
It's Green and Delicious!
I have been trying to cut down my egg consumption lately and it brought me to trying some hot cereals for breakfast. I love cold cereal, but for some reason it gives me a weird feeling when I combine it with my morning tea, so I will stick with the hot cereal for a while. Now that I think of it, this recipe would be good for cold cereal as well, maybe a little corn flakes with matcha milk? Anyway, on to the hot cereal suggestion.
Ingredients: (serves 2)
1/2 cup Arrowhead Mills Rice & Shine Hot Cereal
1 banana (diced)
palm full of raisins
1-2 tsp of maple syrup
1/2 tsp of Matcha green tea
Directions:
- Place 1/2 cup of the hot cereal mix in a pan with 1 1/2 cups of water
- Turn the stove to medium
- Add Matcha and whisk until fully incorporated into mixture (no lumps of tea)
- Add banana and raisins (reserving a few for decoration if you wish)
- Bring to a boil while stirring constantly
- Cover and let simmer for 2 minutes or desired thickness
- Drizzle with maple syrup
It is really good and it seems to sustain me for most of the morning. I plan on trying this with blueberries, bananas and hazelnuts. The matcha is noticeable, but not overwhelming at all. The banana is the strongest flavor of the bunch. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
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It’s a pizza and a damn good one if I might say. Katherine and I have been making homemade pizza lately and this one has been the best so far. We used some of our organic lapsang souchong black tea to make the onions smokey. I hope you enjoy it.
Ingredients:
Store bought pizza dough (we use New Seasons)
Pizza Sauce- we used homemade, but Eden makes a good one
Fresh mozzarella
Fontina
Parmesan
6 slices of ham (we used nieman ranch, sliced thin)
3/4 of red onion sliced thin
5 tsp balsamic vinegar
3 tsp of tea seed oil
1 tsp freshly ground lapsang souchong
dandelion greens
lemon zest from 1/2 lemon
salt and pepper
Directions:
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This is an article my dad found on WebMD. Now, I’m not a doctor, but I would rather drink hibiscus tea to lower my blood pressure than take some prescription drug that may or may not have the same effect. If you are looking for some hibiscus herbal blend I would suggest giving our Jamaica Red Bush a try. It also has rooibos which is said to be very high in anti-oxidants and anti-aging properties. I really like to see articles like these because it gives people a chance to try something that is much more natural to fix a current health issue. There are a lot of natural remedies available, we just need to keep our eyes and minds open to them.
Hibiscus Tea May Cut Blood Pressure
Nov. 10, 2008 (New Orleans) — If you’re worried about your blood pressure, you may want to follow the British custom of regularly “sipping a cuppa” — tea, that is.
In a new study, drinking three cups of herbal tea containing hibiscus each day lowered blood pressure.
“Most of the commercial herbal tea blends in the United States contain hibiscus,” says Diane L. McKay, PhD, of Tufts University in Boston. She tells WebMD that people with the highest blood pressure at the start of the six-week study benefited the most.
McKay presented the study of 65 healthy men and women with modestly elevated blood pressure at the American Heart Association (AHA) meeting here.
Overall, drinking hibiscus tea blends lowered systolic blood pressure — the top number in the blood pressure reading — by an average of 7 points. That was significantly more than the 1-point drop observed in people who were given a placebo in the form of hibiscus-flavored water, McKay says.
While a 7-point drop in blood pressure might not seem like much, she says studies have shown that “even small changes in blood pressure … when maintained over time … will reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack.”
Past AHA president Robert H. Eckel, MD, says that more study is needed to determine whether herbal tea’s blood-pressure-lowering effect can actually be sustained over the long haul.
The degree of blood pressure lowering associated with tea drinking in the study was as much as would be expected with standard blood pressure drugs, he says.
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New Retail Hours!
Foxfire Teas has new retail hours to hopefully offer more opportunities for those of you who reside in p-town to stop by and pick up your tea.
New Hours:
Tuesday-Saturday 10-4pm
If you have any questions, please give us a shout at 503.288.6869
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Vanilla Basil Ice Cream
Hello Everyone,
This doesn’t have much to do with tea, unless you happen to be drinking tea while eating it. I made some Vanilla Basil Ice Cream last night and it turned out delicious. It was just the right amount of basil to give it that subtle basil flavor. We used a Cuisinart ice cream maker for this. Here is the recipe:
VANILLA BASIL ICE CREAM
2c heavy whipping cream (chilled)
1c whole milk
1/2c sugar (we used super fine)
I vanilla bean (insides scraped out)
15 basil leaves
RECIPE
1. add sugar, vanilla, milk and basil into food processor and blend for 25 seconds
2. filter mixture through a fine mesh strainer to get all the basil bits out
3. add heavy whipping cream and mixture into ice cream maker
4. run machine for 25-30 minutes or until thick
5. transfer ice cream to plastic container and freeze
It’s that easy.
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I just picked all my basil this weekend and made a bunch of this pesto for the winter time. I made a few batches with some dried hot chili peppers ( adds a nice spice to it).
I don’t know about you, but I have so much basil in my garden. This is the latest recipe I came up with and I loooooove it. I don’t put parmesan in my pesto so if I have leftovers or make to much I can freeze it. If you like parmesan than you can add it at serving time. I also used pumpkin seeds because they are high in protein, there green and they are less expensive than the traditional pine nuts.
We made a BLT today for lunch using Little T American Bakers foccacia bread (which is the best bread ever) and instead of mayonnaise we used the pesto. Super delicious.
PUMPKIN SEED BASIL PESTO WITH ORGANIC TEA SEED OIL
Ingredients:
2 cups fresh basil (packed in)
1/2 cup of italian flat leaf parsley (packed in)
1/2 cup of toasted pumpkin seeds
1 garlic clove
1/2 cup organic tea seed oil (approximately)
1/2 cup grated parmesan (optional)
Salt and Pepper to taste
Instructions:
- Toast pumpkin seeds over medium/low heat until you hear them make a popping sound, let cool.
- Place pumpkin seeds and garlic in food processor and pulse until it is all evenly chopped up into tiny pieces.
- Add basil, parsley and 1/2 of the tea seed oil, pulse on and off
- Continue pulsing while adding remainder of tea seed oil through top food slot on the processor
- Amount of tea seed oil used depends on how you like your pesto. I like mine to be nice and smooth, so I tend to add more tea seed oil.
- Salt and pepper to taste and feel free to add parmesan if you fancy it.
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Wuyi and Iron Goddess of Mercy are temporarily out of stock. We will have more coming soon.
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Bliss is back!
It’s back and it is slightly different. It still has that wonderful chamomile flavor, but it doesn’t have the lavender or the jasmine. Still lovely as ever.
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Ginger and Genmaicha back in.
Ginger and Genmaicha are back in stock and tastier than ever.
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Ideas for left over Iced-tea
People always tell me that they don’t want to brew up a pitcher of iced-tea because they won’t drink it all in one day. I now have a solution for them. Try making tea-pops or Tea-ice cubes! It is a really easy, healthy and affordable way to have a refreshing treat without all the calories like high fructose corn syrup popsicles have. Just put the tea in some popsicle molds with a few pieces of fresh fruit or if it sounds good mix it with a little orange juice or lemonade to add a little sweetness, freeze and enjoy your tea-sicle. You can also put the tea in some ice cube trays and make tea cubes. Put these tea cubes in your lemonade, smoothies or even a nice cocktail for some extra flavor. The uses are endless for iced-tea, you just have to open your mind and take some chances. One more extra use for iced-tea, make some rice with it. Just replace the water with tea and you have a delicious rice made with tea.
Have any ideas for day old iced-tea, write them in the comment section.
Tea is Fun!
Quinn
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Darjeeling Risotto
We make risotto every once in a while around our house and we usually use chicken broth for the liquid. Not this time though, we steeped up a pot of Organic and Fair Trade Darjeeling 2nd Flush and used that as the liquid. It turned out really well. The risotto was a nice brown color and had subtle hints of tea flavor. I’m not a nutritionist or anything, but I think this is a healthier way to make risotto. Give it a try and let us know what you think. Recipe is below:
Darjeeling 2nd Flush Risotto with spring veggies
Ingredients:
1 cup of risotto
half a chopped onion (we used 4 spring onions from the garden)
2 cloves of garlic, minced (we used 3 spring garlic bulbs)
handful of asparagus
handful of pealed fava beans (blanched)
half a bag of frozen peas
Pancetta, diced
Parmesean
Darjeeling 2nd Flush black tea (available at Foxfire Teas)
Organic Tea Seed Oil (available at Foxfire Teas)
Directions:
1. heat large skillet over med. heat
2. add 2 tbsp tea seed oil and 1 knob of butter
3. Let butter melt and add onion and garlic (saute for 5 minutes, stirring frequently)
4. Add risotto and follow directions on back of risotto package
*Replace suggested liquid with Darjeeling 2nd Flush black tea (steep a 36 oz pot ahead of time and cover with a tea cozy so you have hot liquid throughout the process.
*We added the peas, asparagus and fava beans towards the end of the process to avoid over cooking them. *While the risotto is cooking, crisp up the pancetta in another pan and top the risotto with it at the end.
*Enjoy!
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The 44 Cordial
I got this recipe out of the cooking magazine Saveur (March 2008). The recipe says to use coffee beans, but we tried Golden Yunnan black tea (we also tried coffee). It turned out really delicious. We served it over ice as an after dinner drink. It might be really nice over some vanilla ice cream as well. Recipe is below:
The 44 Cordial (Orange and Coffee Flavored Rum Liqueur)
Poke 44 1″ deep slits all over a medium sized navel orange with a pairing knife; stuff some of Foxfire Teas Golden Yunnan black tea in each slit. Put the orange along with a scant 1 cup sugar (just over 44 tsp) and 1 liter white rum (roughly a quart), into a widemouthed jar with a tight-sealing lid (check and see if the orange fits first). Store and let steep in a cool, dark spot, swirling the jar occasionally, for 44 days. Remove and discard the orange and strain the liqueur through a cheesecloth lined strainer. Transfer to a clean bottle and store in the freezer until ready to drink. Serve neat or over ice. Makes about 4 cups.
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Organic Bancha Now in!
Organic Bancha green tea has arrived. Harvested in the Autumn and Winter, Bancha green tea is an everyday green tea with a roasted aroma. delicious.
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