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April 30, 2006
Iced Chai
Every morning, MR makes me a giant thermos of green tea to take to work. It has stuff that's good for us in it... he can point you to all the evidence. But on weekends, he mixes our green tea with just a touch of chai spiced tea leaves and lightly sweetens with sucralose for a weekend chai spicy treat. Being a Southerner, I am genetically pre-disposed to pour everything over ice, so today I decided to pour my chai over ice. Delicious! A bit watery since the chai was hot, but in future I will chill it first and then pour over ice to maintain its strength.
I'm thinking of making lots of iced teas this summer: peppermint, chamomile, chamo-peppermint, blueberry-peppermint, green-peppermint, mango black tea over ice, the possibilities are endless!
Posted by april at April 30, 2006 8:25 AM
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I highly suggest the Republic of Tea ginger-peach black tea, or ginger-peach decaf. It's amazing, hot or iced. And I can buy it in bulk at Whole Foods, which makes it really inexpensive as well (the tea bags are on the expensive side).
Posted by: emily at April 30, 2006 11:12 AM
I see that Starbucks here is featuring a Green Tea Latte that might be both yummy and a source of calcium! :-)
Posted by: Judith at April 30, 2006 2:41 PM
I believe the best buy for extracts of Mint and Almond and Pure Vanilla are at Trader Joe's. Among other uses, I use them in green tea. By the way, I buy green tea (decaf) in Boston's China Town at C-Mart for only $2.99 per hundred bags! Anyway, back to the extracts ... I like to be exact in recording my usage of everything ingested, so I tape the needle-cover of a hypodermic needle for a 1 cc syringe on each bottle of extract, and then have the syringe and needle "loaded" in the holster-like needle cover, sticking up alongside the bottle, easy to fill, load and inject quickly and accurately into tea or any food desired. No muss, no fuss, no mis-measuring. The conversion to normal food measures is 1 mm = 0.2 tsp.
Curiously, the Pure Vanilla seems to me more viscous than the Almond and Mint extracts; so for the Vanilla, I up the needle size to a 18 gauge to make it easy to extract and inject. It's fun to casually run through that extract-injecton procedure when company is over and observing! lol Always raises a few eyebrows! Liquid Smoke is also fun to experiment with (in soups and many other experimental creations) and I have a hypodermic and syringe attached to that bottle also. :>)
CRWilliam
Vegan CR'g, for long life and all life
RE April 30, 2006 Post of April Smith: "Iced Chai ... I'm thinking of making lots of iced teas this summer: peppermint, chamomile, chamo-peppermint, blueberry-peppermint, green-peppermint, mango black tea over ice ..."
Posted by: CRWilliam at May 9, 2006 2:01 PM
Oops ... correction: 3 cc syringe used, and 1 ml = 0.2 teaspoon.
Posted by: CRWilliam at May 15, 2006 5:50 PM