beverages
Happy National Hot Tea Month! Traditional Medicinals Herbal Tea Review & Giveaway
A cup of tea solves everything. The sound of the kettle coming to a boil. Selecting a tea from my embarrassingly vast trove of flavors and blends. Watching the curls of steam rise from the …
View FullMint Gone Wild: Cocoa-Coconut-Mint Smoothie
The tiny mint plant was so cute, so cheerfully green and enchanting-smelling that I had to get it. It was barely 3″ high and had such delicate and tender little leaves! But a shadow hung …
View FullWhich Came First: The SCOBY or the Kombucha?
It was a hot summer day thousands of years ago when an exhausted Chinese housewife sat down for a moment to catch her breath and enjoy a cup of hot tea after sending her children …
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Look at that bad boy!! That’s a humongous Brandywine that came out of our garden. I have no idea how it didn’t break the vine on which it was growing. State Fair material, don’t you …
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For months a friend of mine had been extolling the virtues of a daily cup of hibiscus tea. He told me that drinking it regularly could lower one’s blood pressure and some studies have shown …
View FullVeganMoFo: Peanut Milk, Banana & Cocoa Smoothie-Shake
You knew this was coming, right? What’s the first, most logical thing one would create with peanut milk? Exactly. Nothing earth-shattering here, folks, just the usual rock-solid-delicious smoothie suspects paired with their new friend, peanut …
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I’m weaning myself off of soy milk. Not only because I’ve discovered a connection between my consumption of soy milk and how (icky) I feel, but also because of a post about carrageenan by …
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