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Honeysuckle Iced Tea Recipe

Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:15:40 +0000

With the health benefits of honeysuckle tea in the international spotlight, we would like the share a wonderful recipe. The cool thing about this recipe is that fresh flowers are used, while in China this herbal tea is made after the honeysuckle flowers are dried. With Easter and Passover behind us, spring is really and truly here. The honeysuckle vine draped across my front porch is in bloom, and every time I go in or out I’m blown away by the scent. I’ve been determined to use those incredible – edible flowers somehow. I’m always inspired by ingredients I can find in my own yard, (or my neighbor’s!) Over the last three years we’ve moved so often that I’ve tried to reduce the sting by challenging myself to find the elements in each new landscape […]

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Herbal Tea from a Spaholic’s Perspective

Tue, 07 May 2013 03:28:17 +0000

As Emma Rose Policarpio writes in her article “Chamomile, jasmine, peppermint: A spaholic’s guide to tea”, In the spaholic world, tea is a staple drink primarily because of its health and therapeutic benefits. It is usually offered hot or cold after a relaxing massage to rid the body of any accumulated materials in the muscles left during the massage session. She writes an article on herbal tea from a “spaholic”‘s perspective, or someone who regularly goes to the spa. She looks at the different types of tea, whether Chamomile, Jasmine, Peppermint or other types and what it does for your body. Chamomile tea and herbal extracts are widely used to soothe troubled stomachs, and as a gentle sleep aid. Jasmine is a type of scented tea which absorbs its aroma from jasmine blossoms. Most jasmine […]

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It’s Tea Time – Woof! Woof!

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 03:25:51 +0000

It is not an uncommon thing to take tea with your pets. Curling up with a cup of tea, a good book, and you cat purring beside you, having your breakfast feeding your dog biscuits under the table, drinking tea with your bird on your shoulder. Beatrix Potter apparently drank tea with her bunnies. Well now, for you tea drinking dog lovers, there is tea your dog can drink. WOOF & BREW is a range of healthy herbal teas for dogs, was launched at Crufts, from March 7-10, by two Huntingdonshire business people – Lisa Goodwin Morton, of Hartford, and Steve Bennett, of Papworth, and two of their contacts Tony Kinch and Nick Gandon. The initial range of tea included five varieties for adult dogs, with each said to help with a different area of […]

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Lily flower tea

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 01:04:05 +0000

There’s is that memorable quote from Harry Potter when Professor Slughorn tells Harry about his fish Francis, It was a student who gave me Francis. One Spring afternoon I discovered a bowl on my desk, just a few inches of clear water in it. Floating on the surface was a flower petal. As I washed, it sank. Just when it reached the bottom, it transformed into a wee fish. It was beautiful magic, wondrous to the behold. The flower petal had come from a lily, your mother. The day I came downstairs, the day the bowl was empty, was the day your mother… There is that image of a singular lily petal, pure and beautiful – sinking into the depths of that bowl and making something even more beautiful and something just as fleeting: a […]

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