
Green tea martinis are on the RAGE! Delicious, refreshing and very unique! Here is a recipe for a truly delicious experience!
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Have a great St. Patty’s Day and drink something green :) Steve
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![]() Green Tea Martini, Good Shaken or Stirred! Green tea martinis are on the RAGE! Delicious, refreshing and very unique! Here is a recipe for a truly delicious experience! See Recipe Have a great St. Patty’s Day and drink something green :) Steve Photo by Mark Bowers
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In his new book, Secrets of Longevity Cookbook, Dr. Maoshing Ni listed green tea as one of the top ten foods for health and longevity. During his twenty-five years of studying centenarians, he found that the same ten foods kept recurring again and again in the diets of long-living individuals, and green tea definitely tops the charts in the beverage category.
Read more Want unbiased tea reviews? Check out Teaviews.com
Teaviews.com is an online collective of tea lovers and reviewers from across the United States and Canada. All members receive free periodic shipments of high quality tea samples, which they select themselves from the inventory of samples, to taste and review on Teaviews.com. The tea samples come directly from tea vendors all around the world, large and small. All of the reviews are published at Teaviews.com, along with other tea-related posts. Teaviews.com is completely unaffiliated with any tea manufacturers or merchants, so the reviews remain 100% unbiased. ![]() Green tea smoothies are a great delicious and nutritious option when you don't have time to sit down to a good breakfast. Experiment by mixing in fruit like banana, mango, apricot or pineapple. Also try using almond or soy milk. Here are some simple and nutritious recipes from one of my favorites matcha sites. See Recipes Tea + Social Networking = Steepster.com
I just got an account over at Steepster.com. What is Steepster? I would call it a “Tea Community”. Steepster is a great place for people new to tea. You can browse teas, read reviews of teas and learn all sorts of information about tea. You can also participate in discussions including reviewing teas once you get an account. And they have a great section on my favorite tea....green teas. Check them out! Steepster.com Dr. David Servan-Schreiber discusses his book, "AntiCancer -- A New Way of Life", including mentioning Green Tea!
Just one more reason to drink more green tea!! Watch video ![]() Saw this recipe for Matcha green tea donuts on A Beautiful Mess. A Beautiful Mess is a lifestyle blog focused on creating a beautiful life. They share simple ways to create an inspired lifestyle. They believe in lifelong learning. Most of all, they believe that life doesn't need to be perfect to be beautiful. Let me know what you think? See recipe here ![]() Whereas Genmaicha is a low-caffeine alternative to other Japanese greens, Genmaimatcha cranks up the caffeine (and the antioxidants and flavor) with the addition of one of our favorite teas: Matcha. The jade-green, matcha-covered leaves in Genmaimatcha have a sweet, grainy aroma with an intense green freshness. They brew into a rich, deep, nearly opaque chartreuse green liquor with a sweet, toasty flavors of roasted almonds and grains, an oceanic whiff of fatty salmon and a pure, strong grassy, vegetal note. What follows is a tingly aftertaste in which toasty rice notes outlast any fading astringency. The overall effect is assertively bittersweet, cementing this tea’s spot as a favorite wake-up tea. Pair with breakfast, brunch or grilled fish. ![]() Matcha Green Tea Ice Cream from eBook of Sweet and Savory Recipes, by Minnie Jardine The quintessential matcha recipe. Dreamy.
Slowly pour 1/4 of hot milk into egg yolks, whisking as you go to temper them, then add the yolk mixture back into the remaining hot milk. Cook, stirring constantly, over low heat until it thickens a bit. Remove from heat and pour back into mixing bowl. Combine the matcha paste, cream and vanilla and add to the milk mixture. Whisk to blend and cool, then cover tightly and chill thoroughly. Follow the directions for your own ice cream maker. More Matcha recipes at Matcha Green Tea Ice Cream Two chemical compounds in the drinks -- EGCG in green tea and resveratrol in red wine -- may disrupt the progress of Alzheimer's in the brain.
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About meHello, I’m Steve. I’m 55, live in Dayton, Ohio and I have a passion for everything green tea. I love learning and expanding my knowledge of green tea and its health benefits, and then sharing it with others. I have varied and diverse interests that include the love of golf, basketball, wine, and music (alternative and smooth jazz). I’m married to the most wonderful woman in the world and have three grown children (all girls). Archives
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