Tea Tea Tea

Although I love tea, I feel that I have been neglecting posting anything on my blog in the past month or so about the wonderful topic! I have been incredibly busy at my amazing place of work and have created some delicious tea recipes.

Here's an extremely easy and fast recipe I have created.


Herbal/Rooibos Tea Shake

Ingredients:
A form of loose rooibos or herbal tea (about 2 tablespoons), below


-Try to get one that is very red, deep in flavor, and fine
-You can find these types of tea in many places (from a local grocery store to a specialized seller)
-If you get tea in a tea bag, just open multiple bags up and use that
1 cup Ice
2 cups milk
-You can substitute this for soy milk, rice milk, hemp milk, etc.
1 tablespoon raw sugar
-You can use regular sugar or honey as a substitute

What you'll need:
A shaker
A glass

How to:
Quickly rinse the tea in HOT water for one or two seconds to start opening up the flavor.
Put the ice, milk, raw sugar, and rinsed tea in the shaker.
Shake very violently for about 15 minutes until it foams and fizzes, and it will.
Pour in the glass and drink up!
You can top it off with some strawberries or raspberries if you like!



Also, I've been dying to try TAZO's new Chai Latte....

Thanksgibbin'

In my household, my parents always made the turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, etc. We always had to have the cranberry "sauce" that came from a can as well... Last year, I tried making my own cranberry sauce and it turned out pretty well. This year, I'm re-vamping the recipe and giving it some extra ingredients...
Because really... who likes that stuff from a can anyways?


Ariel's Ultra-Amazing Cranberry Perfection Sauce Recipe

Start out with the main ingredients:
-1 cup water
-1 cup sugar (you can use raw sugar as well)
-1 bag whole, fresh cranberries

Since this is a new recipe, I'm going to add:
-1 cup cut oranges (with rinds! aka: skins)
-1 cup whole, fresh blueberries
-1 teaspoon cinnamon

1. In a saucepan, boil water, sugar, and cinnamon until sugar is completely dissolved.
2. Stir in cranberries, blueberries, and oranges. Bring back to a boil.
3. Turn down heat to low and let the sauce simmer for 10 minutes, or until cranberries burst.
4. Take off heat and chill to room temperature. Move sauce to a bowl and chill in refrigerator for 2 hours.
...and now you're ready to eat it on top of your turkey (or for you vegans/vegetarians like me: tofurkey), yams, or biscuits.


AND
While you're making this delicious recipe, it'd be fun to listen to some fall time Thanksgiving music. I highly recommend some acoustic AA Bondy, Andrew Bird, Titus Andronicus, or Dr. Dog.

Download free music mixes here:
AA Bondy
Andrew Bird
Titus Andronicus
Dr. Dog

(All mixes come from Daytrotter sessions)