Why hello there tea friends. I have an iced tea recipe for you today.
First, I want to stress how easy it is to make iced tea at home and what a great alternative it is to Slurpies, soda pops and Arizonas. Any of your teas at home can be made into an iced tea. Whatever flavour you’re in the mood for, simply double steep the tea you want to drink and pour it over ice and voila! Iced tea!
However, there are many other ways to infuse iced tea at home. I like to get a little creative every time and try something different. Recently I have been brewing chaga mushroom tea and chilling it in the refrigerator. After some chill time, a couple of hours or so, the chaga will be cool enough to pour over a glass of ice and enjoyed as a refreshingly earthy beverage on a hot summer day. The chilled chaga can also be added to any of your iced tea blends, adding an earthy, full-bodied, almost vanilla-y taste to your tea.
I am still discovering places in Toronto to purchase chaga, but I found a small little shop where I can get chaga finely ground or in chunks by the pound. House of Energy is located in Kensington Market and has everything from loose tea, crystals, handmade jewellery to mushrooms. If you’re curious to know more about this magical mushroom, stop by House of Energy and the ladies there will let you in on the secrets of chaga.
And finally, here is an iced tea recipe I created on the fly one afternoon while cooling down from a mid-day cooking extravaganza.
1 cup of steeped Vanilla Orchid and Spearmint tea (use about a teaspoon of tea to steep each)
a few fresh mint leaves from the garden
1 cup of chilled steeped chaga mushroom
1/2 teaspoon of agave (optional for those sweet teeth out there)
So I steeped the Vanilla Orchid with Spearmint, poured it over iced and added the mint and chilled chaga altogether in a glass. Cool down with this fresh vanilla chaga mint iced tea (that was a mouthful), it will be the healthiest thing you do that day!
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