I’m into the slow cooker lately. What’s better than a one-pot meal that basically cooks itself? Plus, a Sunday slow cooker meal yields lots of leftovers for creative weeknight meals. This slow cooker dish was inspired by a few of my favorite things: Food Books: I just finished reading The Hundred Foot Journey by Richard…
Category: Black Tea
Tea Foodie’s Frozen Faves
It’s been a hot summer here in Denver, CO! To beat the heat, I find myself going back to some of my favorite tea foodie dishes in the iced or frozen category. Thought I’d share some of my top picks for recipes to cool down with tea. Enjoy. Happy cooking and sipping! Tea Foodie’s Frozen…
Citrus Spice Tea Egg (and Happy Chinese New Year!)
As the Chinese New Year approaches (on Friday, January 31), sharing a recipe for the traditional Chinese tea egg seems extremely appropriate. Did you know that 2014 will be the Year of the Horse? According to the Chinese zodiac, the Year of the Horse is “a time for all people to go forward confidently in…
DIY Tea Foodie gift ideas
I’ve been busy working the holiday market circuit this season, sampling and selling my hand blended teas. One of my favorite markets is coming up this weekend, the Denver Handmade Homemade Holiday Market. I love the community spirit and creativity at this market, which features a lot of local, artisan vendors making everything from food…
Tea Sugar Snickerdoodles
Ever since I started working in Savory Spice Shop’s test kitchen, my recipe repertoire has expanded ten-fold. Not all of the recipes we test are fabulous and we only publish the really good ones. But there are definitely a handful that are just plain great. These are the ones that I know I’ll keep making…
Earl Grey & Hibiscus Lemonade
Why didn’t I think of this sooner? This perfect summer sip could not be any easier. Simply cold steep your favorite Earl Grey tea (mine is Earl of Grey from The Tea Spot) with hibiscus flowers (Savory Spice Shop has hearty hibiscus) in your favorite prepared lemonade (mine is Simply Lemonade). Then enjoy the gorgeous…
Orange Pound Cake with Blackberry Tea Syrup
If you love to cook, it’s hard not to bring your work home with you when you have a job in a test kitchen. I bring home leftovers from what we cooked in the test kitchen that day (that is, anything that wasn’t gobbled up by our in-house tasters) or any groceries that would otherwise…
Brown Sugar Tea Tart
It’s fun to work in a place where nearly everyone loves to talk about, create and eat good food. Last week, in celebration of Pi Day on 3/14, several of my food-loving co-workers whipped up homemade pies to bring to work and share. Included in the mix were pineapple cream pie, lemon meringue pie, bacon-apple…
Sesame Quinoa Salad
I picked up a lovely toasted sesame-flavored black tea during my first visit to an Adagio retail store last fall in Chicago. This tea has just the right balance of flavor; it’s not too overwhelmingly sesame and it has a hint of toasty sweet. Ever since I purchased it I’ve wanted to make something with…
Earl Grey Hot Chocolate Mix
My thoughtful and generous friend, Allison, is always sending me tea-infused foodie finds from New York City. Over the holidays, Allison sent me a delicious Earl Grey hot chocolate mix from Whimsy & Spice Brooklyn Confectioners. My first thought when I tried it was, “This is amazing.” My second thought was, “I could totally make…
Tea Foodie’s top 5 recipes for 2012
2012 commemorates the year I started my tea foodie blog. I’ve tried to post something once a week to journal my cooking with tea explorations and tea foodie finds. It’s fun to look back and see how much content I’ve built up in less than a year. It’s also fun to finally have my cooking…
Earl Grey Tea Toast
One morning, while sipping on an exquisite Earl Grey tea and staring at what was left of a large lovely loaf of French bread from our pasta dinner the night before, I had a sudden craving to toast up that bread, cover it with something sweet and nibble on it alongside my tea. That’s how…
Harvest Spice Apple-tea-ni
This recipe is a great reason to be happy that another beautiful fall weekend has arrived. The recipe features Harvest Spice Tea from The Tea Spot that I steeped in aged rum and then mixed into the perfect fall cocktail. Harvest Spice is a black tea blend that is pretty potently flavored with orange, cinnamon…
Mango-Ginger Tea Vinaigrette with Romaine-Pancetta Salad
I’ve been working on a mango tea vinaigrette recipe for a while now, and I’ve finally come up with one that I love. It’s a sweet, limey and slightly creamy vinaigrette that makes a great dressing for greens, but it would also be great in a shrimp, crab or chicken salad, or it could work…
Smoky Quinoa Veggie Chili
After a week of extravagantly eating my way through Philadelphia and New York City, I really didn’t think I would want another bite of food when I finally returned home from my fabulously indulgent culinary adventure. But I also missed my kitchen and that comforting feeling of whipping up my own delicious (and healthy) home-cooked…
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