Oprah Winfrey has long been a famous proponent of tea drinking; she is unashamedly fond of her cup of tea and enjoys the entire activity of tea drinking with some lovely flavors, beautiful tea accessories and some time to savor! From time to time, in her magazine O, or on the Oprah website, you can find a number of tea recipes that are simple and useful resources to make tea drinking a varied and enjoyable activity.
The Fresh Lime and Honey tea recipe is a simple one involving as is obvious, honey and lime, a way to give a slightly Columbian twist to the tea.
Green Tea Collins offers you a unique cocktail recipe using green tea, lemon juice, fresh grated ginger, syrup and yes vodka! This one requires a shaker; it needs to be shaken and not stirred! Vodka and green tea are not exactly a classic combination, but don’t know until you’ve tried!
This herbal iced tea recipe uses lemon and red zinger tea bags, but that is not the interesting part of the recipe; the interesting part is the third ingredient: which is apple juice! Sounds delicious?
This unusual recipe for Tea Poached Tilapia is from Bob Greene’s Best Life Diet. It involves orange and spice flavored tea bags which are brewed for a period and then after addition of other favors, the poaching of fish in the mixture! Suggested serving with some brown rice or soba noodles.
This Iced tea fruit punch has two variants, for adults as well as for non adults. The former has rum and champagne while the latter has sparkling water with a lot of real fruit ingredients. It is a delicious, even refreshing, drink!
This spinach and sencha tea recipe uses sencha which is a nutrient-packed green tea that gives the lift of caffeine without the edginess. Get a bright, fragrant burst when steeped with orange zest.
Singer Sarah McLachlan and her husband, Ash are said to have worked on this Chai recipe for a long time, and this one involves a lot of spices, tea bags and whole milk!
Fox Sweet tea includes a whole lot of ingredients and flavors such as kaffir lime leaves, mint, lemongrass, and lots of citrus fruit.
So lots of excuses there to indulge one’s love for tea, as Oprah so obviously and clearly does hers!
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