Steep It Loose

G’day! This steamy, 80-degree Thursday has me feeling it quite necessary to write an instructional on making delicious iced tea. The most important thing about making iced tea that good old 6th grade (or was it earlier?!) mathematical trick: proportions! The best way to make iced tea at home requires several tools. You will need…

There’s always something cooking in the TeaSpot kitchen, so in accompaniment to our blog about tea-riffic cocktails, I thought I would go ahead and add the piece de résistance: a few mouth-watering recipes for cooking with tea. So put on your aprons, collect your spatulas, and get in the kitchen and make me some dinner!…

This week finds me appreciating tasty tea concoctions made with various distilled spirits. The art of concocting deliciously balanced booze drinks really needs no justification or introduction. That being said, allow me to provide some interesting drink recipes for you to try in the comfort and privacy of your own home, and afterwards, you can…

You may or may not have already heard about “Puerh” tea, an ancient form of Chinese tea that is carefully aged and fermented over time. “Puerh” is the name for the tea in Mandarin, and “Bolay” or “Polay” is it’s name in Cantonese. The tea itself is named after the Pu’er province in Yunnan, China.…