Green Ginger Tea

I like light, herbal teas best. Rose tea, spearmint tea (peppermint is too strong for my liking), white tea, I'm all for it. My friend, Erica, is very generous with her tea collection and I love love love sampling from her collection.

Today she told me about green ginger tea. Most ginger-y drinks are too strong for me, so this green ginger tea made me nervous. But ginger is just so freakin healthy... sometimes you just have to suck it up. (Or, I guess, gulp it down.)


Why should you drink this tea?

Here are the benefits of ginger tea:

• Ginger soothes the stomach and helps ease nausea
• Heated ginger is an anti-inflammatory, and green tea improves blood flow--perfect for relieving muscle soreness and cramps
• Green tea lowers cholesterol, and helps maintain heart health and stabilize blood sugar
• Theanine in green tea can lower anxiety

Plus, the ginger-y taste in this tea isn't very strong at all! Perfect.

Here are the stats for preparation:

Happy sipping!

Orange-Ginger Juice

I never want to juice an apple again, and I don't have to. I wanted to make orange-ginger juice, but got a little carried away. What I ended up with blew my mind: 

I'm really sensitive to the taste of ginger (most ginger-y drinks are really strong for me) so just added a pinch, and it was the perfect aftertaste. For me. Everybody else who had a sip said, word for word, "oh you can't taste the ginger at all!" 

So, you know, use your own proportions. Here are the specifics of what's in my blender:

• 2 oranges
• 15ish cherries, de-pitted
• 1/3 of a pineapple
• handful of cilantro
• pinch of ginger

Blend, strain, and you're good to go! As always, you don't need any sugar or water--the cherries are sweet enough to balance the tartness of the pineapple.