Shanti Chai & Co's All Things Tea Blog
Green Tea Benefits
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Vanilla & Rose Petal Chocolates - Recipe
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Teas for Anxiety
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Shanti's Favourite Teas To Help Reduce Anxiety (or better yet, let's call them Best Teas for Ease!) Several years ago, I suffered an extreme bout of prolonged anxiety. Panic attacks, insomnia, night sweats, heart palpitations, feeling faint, ringing ears, even issues with my vision and having a hard time catching my breath. Mind racing, heart racing, thoughts racing. The worst of this era of my life lasted about a year or so, but there were more years building before that where these incredibly uncomfortable symptoms of anxiety crept in to my life. During that time, I tried so many things,...
"Mom's Garden" Blend "New Momma" Blend Chamomile Chamomile Tea Herbal Blend Herbal Tea Holy Basil Lavender Nettle & Rose Blend Peppermint Rose Petals Shanti's Picks Teas for Anxiety Teas for Ease Tulsi
Real Chai Latte: Recipe, Tips and Tricks!
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Chai Lattes... ahhh. Spiced and sweet. Frothy and foamy and delicious. A perfect pairing of Assam tea, earthy and aromatic spices like cinnamon, cardamom, cloves... all topped with steamed milk (or milk alternative). When you order a chai latte at a coffee shop, your beverage usually consists of a sweetened chai concentrate (we will talk more about this on a later blog!) combined with milk. Both are then steamed, which simultaneously heats up and foams the beverage. While this often tastes delicious, in our (humble) opinion, this isn't a real chai latte. For us, a proper chai latte involves brewing...
Shanti Chai Pumpkin Pie Recipe
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Substitute Pumpkin Spice with Chai Spice for an Extra Special Pumpkin Pie! This past weekend was Canadian Thanksgiving and while we had a mellow day at home with the twins, we decided to cook up a chicken, with potatoes, squash and rosemary, thyme, parsley and sage from the garden. And of course, pumpkin pie! This pie is incredibly simple to make, richly spiced using a blend of our Original Chai Blend spices (with some added allspice), and has a lovely texture and an indulgent old school graham cracker crust. We topped ours with sweetened coconut cream. To Make a Shanti...