Never thought I’d make tea from sage but I bought lose sage to burn, but also make tea with. Packed full of anti inflammatory, antioxidant, and other compounds. It’s also obviously useful as incense as I burn it on a charcoal disk for lose incense. Back to the tea. A good cleansing herb that has a spicy flavor like chai and good for your throat too.
Metaphysical uses of wisdom, cleansing, purification, and mental clarity(medicinal effect too).
My little morning ritual lately ☀️
Raw turmeric + raw ginger 🫚→ freshly ground → simmered with a few spices → strained into a warm cup.
Why I like it:
✨ Ginger help with digestion supper ingredient for you stomach
✨ Turmeric contains curcumin, with antioxidant & anti-inflammatory properties best for glowing skin
✨ Warm, homemade & no packaged mixes
✨ And honestly… making it from scratch feels weirdly satisfying 😂
Not claiming it’s a miracle drink — just a simple ritual I’m enjoying.
Would you drink this or run away from the orange 🍊 potion? 😂
Wonderful during menstruation.
Fresh ginger, red jujube dates, Eleuthro, calendula, hawthorn berries, yarrow
Alone or with family or friends?
With an interesting stranger or with your neighbors?
Maybe your pet kept you company?! That counts too!
Share a picture if it feels right. Tea is the most perfect community drink ever - share your recent tea companions! I'm sharing mine in the first comment below:
Happy Sunday, tea people ☕🌿
This week I’m curious not only what everyone is drinking, but why that particular tea today?
Something you drink every day?
Something for how you're feeling?
An experiment with a new herb?
Something seasonal or freshly harvested?
Or simply the first thing you found in the cupboard? 😄
Mine is a bit unusual - I'll share in a comment below.
What’s in your cup — and what made you choose it today?
Photos very welcome. 🌿
So, after replying to a “what tea am I drinking today?” post, I was asked to share the iced tea recipe I’ve been obsessed with all summer—so here goes.
• Make your cold brew. I use an Eigenart Eve brewer, but a large mason jar works too. Add five to six tea bags of fruit tea, or five to six teaspoons of loose tea, and chill for 24 hours.
• Put six to eight black cherries in a mason jar or glass. Fresh if you can afford them, but I use Walmart’s frozen Dark Sweet Cherries.
• Muddle the fruit. If you’re using frozen fruit, microwave it for about a minute first.
• Add the juice of one lemon, or about two teaspoons of concentrated lemon juice.
• Add sweetener to taste. I use four to six packets of Splenda because I like my tea sweet and I’m counting calories, but you can use agave, honey, maple syrup, sugar, Stevia, or whatever you prefer.
• Pour in your cold brew.
• Add ice and a splash of coconut milk.
• Shake your jar and enjoy!
You can use pretty much any combination of fruit tea and fresh or frozen fruit. I’ve been experimenting all summer: pineapple with pineapple green tea, berries with raspberry lemon tea, cherries with jasmine green tea, mango with peach mango tea—the possibilities are endless.
I got the idea from a young woman on YouTube named Abril Murillo, whose channel is Days With Abril. She inspired me to start experimenting, and now I’m slightly obsessed. 😂
There was a tasting guide thing I used to pick these. The Rhino bush is somewhat piney, reminds me of pine needle tea. The Snow bush is more woody, earthy with a slight sweetness to it.
Only ever had Rooibos and Honeybush as Fynbos teas so cool to see other varieties. The tasting guide had a good 10 to 15 options.
I really like herbal tea, and I drink it almost every day. But I noticed that there are only 2 types of herbal tea available on the market.
The first one is made with a single ingredient. Some of them taste good, but a little bit boring. And the others are not my type. The only reason I can keep drinking is because of the effect.
The second type is blended herbal tea, which includes fruits and flowers and so on. The flavor is better than the single ingredient type, but some of them seem to have an artificial flavoring smell.
So, to make herbal tea taste better, I started DIY. I brew two different herbal tea bags randomly or add some honey. One thing that gave me inspiration was a ginseng tea I tried. It was blended with chrysanthemum, jasmine and goji, and I was honestly surprised by how naturally flavorful it was. You could still taste the individual ingredients and without artificial flavor. Then I started to add flowers or berries I like with herbal tea. Nothing very scientific, just keep trying and enjoy the process. I've also seen a post few days ago, someone mixed spices with herbs, that's also cool.
Do you have any "secret" tips to make the single ingredient herbal tea taste better?
Hiii I bought some teas from turkey but I kinda forgot some of their names and uses. So if anyone would be nice enough to help, I would really appreciate it!
My favorite part of the day - making an intuitive morning blend. This one was Tulsi, hibiscus, rose, and catnip.
Happy Friday! ☕️🍃
What's one herb you drank this week?
New discovery or old favorite. I'd love to hear what it was and how you liked it 🌸🍵
Curious as to what’s in your collection of teas. So far I have Green Tea, Gunpowder Green Tea, Puerh Tea, Dandelion, Chrysanthemum, Osmanthus, Rose, Lily(very strong), Tulsi, Meadowsweet, Lemon Balm, Lavender, and Peppermint, Mugwort.
I just started getting into tea a lot more seriously. For years, I just drank Trader Joe’s ginger turmeric, and a variety of other brands, but started recently bought Rishi loose leaf. It’s good but one strange thing to me is that I seemed to prefer the second steep because the first one has kind of a viscous mouth feel almost and taste stronger.
Does this make sense to anyone? I suppose I could rinse off the leaves once, then steep it for the first time but I wasn’t aware you did that with tisanes.
Thanks for any help.
Tea shop experiments don’t always need exotic ingredients. For those who don't know me: I own a small tea/coffee store in a shopping mall.
Today I took a very ordinary green tea and added a small pinch of nutmeg.
And it makes more sense than I expected.
Green tea brings the fresh, grassy, slightly astringent side. Nutmeg brings this warm, woody, almost sweet aroma underneath it. The result feels somewhere between a simple green tea and a spiced tea, but without turning it into chai.
There was one lesson though: “a pinch” really means a pinch. 😅
I got enthusiastic with the nutmeg, and after sitting for about 10 minutes it became noticeably bitter and overpowering. Next cup I’d use considerably less - just enough that you smell the nutmeg before you consciously taste it.
Now I’m curious:
What spice have you added to tea that sounded strange but worked surprisingly well?
I have been making my own tea from the blackberry and red raspberry leaves I get from my garden and was wondering if anyone else has any good homemade tea suggestions. I've found that both taste fairly similar to green tea with slight differences.
Chrysanthemum is one of my favorite uplifting teas and today it’s combined with Lemon Balm. So happy vibes and emotional wellbeing. On the non witchy side it has a nice cooling effect on the body. Even as a hot tea it can make you feel cooler on the inside.
Happy Sunday! ☕️🍃 What's everyone drinking today?
- Single herb?
- Homemade blend?
- Something you foraged yourself?
- A family recipe?
- Maybe a favorite you've been brewing for years?
Tell us what's in your cup today and what made you choose it. Photos are always welcome. I love seeing everyone's teas 🌿
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Come on, tea people, share your Sunday tea mood! ;)