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Recipe Time: Honey-Bourbon-Tarragon Steak

As much as we love cooking with tea around the Tealab, we also have to confess an undying admiration for booze. The Tea Mistress has actually written a booze-based cookbook that she’s shopping around, and she has a tendency to combine her love for food with her love for liquor on a regular basis. Naturally, […]

Recipe Time: Sweet Spiced Lentils

Ordinarily, lentils are a savoury food – they’re a delicious, fast way to get protein on a Meatless Monday or if you’re just in the mood for some Indian-inspired chow. So it was sort of exciting to stumble across this recipe for sweet spiced lentils – made with rooibos for added flavour, no less! With […]

Tea Tipples: Spring Sparkler

While the nearest Whole Foods is…wow, almost two hours away…we still have a tendency to go to their website on a regular basis. Why? Because they have neat stuff there! Like recipes! And, of course, what with it finally starting to warm up here in Vermont, we’re in the mood for things that enhance that […]

Recipe Time: Yerba Maté Marinated Sirloin Tips

  Oftentimes, when we think about cooking with tea, all that comes to mind is baked goods. There’s so much more you can do, though, and so we were really excited to find a recipe for a tea-marinated beef dish from Whole Foods. With a little tweaking, Tea Noir-style, it makes a heck of a […]

Recipe Time: Tea-Spiced Nuts

Valentine’s Day is upon us! Well, nearly. And for many folks, that means going out and finding some delightful little treats to lavish upon their sweetie. The traditional goodies – chocolates of all shapes, sizes, and descriptions – might be more expensive this year than last, though…and that trend is looking to continue. While many […]

Cookiefest Day 14: Sesame Cookies and Juicy

Cookies don’t always have to be overly sweet. In fact, sometimes, a balance between sweet and savoury/salty is the best – it feels like you can eat more cookies that way! And maybe sneak some in as a snack, or with breakfast, or…yeah, you get the picture. These sesame cookies are an offbeat Italian tradition, […]

Cookiefest Day 13: Shortbread and Ultraviolet

It’s hard to pair up certain teas with foods, simply because their flavours are so delicate. You don’t want to overwhelm the brew, which is often more of an aroma than a flavour, per se – the bouquet or nose of the tea is 75% of the sipping experience, just like we all learned with […]

Cookiefest Day 12: Orange Cream Cookies with Rio Getaway

Normally, I’m all about making simple cookies – the faster I can churn ’em out, the better. None of this fancy rolling and cutting and shaping, oh no. But sometimes, you want something a little special, and these orange cream-filled sandwich cookies are just the thing when you’re looking for an impressive little morsel. They […]

Cookiefest Day 11: Nutella Banana Cookies and Let’s Split

Instead of leading off with the cookies this time, we’ve decided to take a tea and find the perfect baked good to pair with it. One of our weirder concoctions is, without a doubt, Let’s Split. I mean, yerba maté with banana? Wild! But it’s a really good match, honestly – yerba maté is earthy […]

Cookiefest Day 10: Malted Fudge Brownies and Mocha Maté

Everyone loves a good brownie. And there are a million variations on the classic – chewy versus , walnuts or no nuts, extra chocolate chips, peanut butter swirl, the works. I love the idea of this particular variation: crushed malted milk balls. I may have to get malted milk balls next Hallowe’en just for an […]