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Easy Recipes Using Vanilla Bean Paste
If you have vanilla bean paste and aren't sure what to do with it, you're in luck! There are so many simple ways to in incorporate vanilla flavor into meals, snacks, desserts, and beverages, with this ingredient on hand. Check out some of these easy recipes!
Black Tea Benefits
Black tea is said to contain a host of health benefits including many we will discuss here—like the inclusion of antioxidants and amino acids in ones diet. Learn why you should be switching out coffee for black tea!
How to Make a Perfect Black Tea Latté
Black tea lattés are certainly desserving of all the hype surrounding them but why pay $6 for one, when they are so easy to make? Just, brew the tea to perfection, and enhance your drink with fragrant spices and cream or milk. This tea latté is infused with bergamot, cinnamon, and maple!
Roasted White Chocolate Affagato with Fresh-Scraped Vanilla Beans
A delicious spin on the the classic vanilla bean Affogato—with homemade roasted white chocolate and vanilla bean ice cream and espresso! Make it at home for a treat that will make you feel as if you were at a 5-star Italian restaurant!
Vanilla Paloma Cocktail with Fresh Squeezed Grapefruit
A classic Paloma cocktail is not made with vanilla, nor does it include fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice. An overly sugared grapefruit soda is the standard approach to this famous Mexican, tequila (or Mezcal) cocktail, but we gave it a flavorful twist!
Mexican Vanilla Beans: The Mother of Vanilla
A search for “Mexican vanilla” delivers pages of information about vanilla extract but very little regarding whole Mexican vanilla beans. Considering the origin of all vanilla beans is Mexico, this is quite perplexing. Let's dig in to the reasons why. Then we'll share a phenomenal atole recipe.