It only takes three saffron crocus bulb flowers to make a cup of fragrant saffron tea.Three flowers contain nine red saffron threads, enough flavor for a cup. We add a few drops of home made rose petal water or wild flower honey for the fragrance and taste.We grow our own, inside the windowsill. Flowers in January. Outside bulbs flower in fall. You can buy dried saffron threads in the supermarket, 20 threads for 3 dollars.To make tea, you bloom the saffron a few minutes by pouring 200 F degree hot water over it. Steep a few minutes like other teas. Taste, add a few drops of rose water or wild flower honey.

We grow Taiwanese Ding Dong Oolong tea in the kitchen window and collect fresh green leaves, tips and buds to make white tea. For this infusion, I added dried blueberries and dried Muskat grape Sultana raisins and steeped them in near boiling water of 160F degree water, tasted them after six hours and eleven hours.Cookpad member Solomia posted this recipe with dried apples as a popular traditional drink from Ukraine. Слава українська.

I ordered twenty tea plant seeds three years ago and now have nineteen handsome windowsill Ding Dong Oolong Taiwanese Teaplants.Ready to be planted outdoors on the east side of the house against the wall, under the eaves, frost protected.I am building raised wall planter boxes with soil that is suitable for tea bushes, California rose bushes and Makrut Peroek citrus lime bushes as compagnions. We have grown Russian Soshi Black Tea before elsewhere in the garden, but a night frost killed the bushes.Here is the first cup of this Oolong tea. Tastes like the real thing, but fresher. You can make green, red, or black tea from the leaves depending how you roll and dry them.If you can grow Camelias outside, you can grow tea. Plant in ten gallon grow bags with handles to move indoors if you have nightfrost.

I planted 20 teaseeds in a window sill pot 3 years ago, 19 sprouted into handsome tea bushes, and the first one bloomed.I picked leaves and rubbed them in my hands, fermented them, and dried them to made Oolong tea.Delicious. I built planter boxes outside my kitchen window, they are handsome plants to look at, will be transplanted outside when danger of frost has passed. I have other camelia shrubs that survive the mild winters here.

Our own oranges are organic, store bought oranges can have residual chemicals on the peels. Here is how to wash and dry the peels to make tea. After making the tea, we spread the peels in the garden to repel slugs.#GlobalApron

German Chamomile grows very well here, reseeds intself every year, so it has its own dedicated corner in the garden.

Regular tea and coffee are such great traditional hot drinks, a daily moment of simple luxury, alone or shared with friends. Tea from dried rosehips makes me feel the same way.

Crush fresh avocado pits with a wooden mallet, steep five minutes in non boiling hot water, 200F degrees. If the avocado was organic, add peel to steep in tea.

This flattens a marinated whole duck so it smokes and cooks in a short time in the barbecue.Serves well with roasted miniature potatoes and shallots, mushrooms, and sprouts.An expensive gourmet dinner for four, but the trimmings, duck fat and carcass make four more free duck soup wild rice dinners, eight dinners from one duck.#GoldenApron23

This is something I remember being given as a child when I was ill. Perfect remedy to soothe the throat.

In the air fryer oven. Safe, quick and convenient. For the smoke, I used loose tea and hardwood pellets in a metal cup on lower rack of my air fryer oven.Shallots are a tea smoked delicacy, taste great warm or cold. Mild when smoked whole, pungent when smoked in slices.I smoke the shallots whole, then slice and microwave a minute to bring out the sweetness. I smoke them with the whole chicken livers on the same tray on upper rack.Pair with pickled green mangos in pepper oil. Make great weekend snacks.#GlobalApron

If you are have ever tried a smoked chinese tea called Lapsong Souchong, imagine how delicious that flavor is on smoked bacon. You can use a grill or barbecue to “tea smoke” bacon.You only need a small charcoal and tea fire. Smoke 6 - 12 hours in a handwarm grill, 165F degrees. Tea and bacon are a perfect match of smoke flavors. String the bacon in the smoke pipe to hang and smoke, or lay on griddle with top closed.