{"id":4458,"date":"2013-06-12T08:40:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T14:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=4458"},"modified":"2013-06-12T08:40:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T14:40:21","slug":"hug-in-a-mug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=4458","title":{"rendered":"Hug in a Mug"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hug<\/p>\n

Internet has been very touch and go lately\u2026so this last week I haven\u2019t been around much.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been in the Eastern provinces \u2013 PEI, New Brunswick, and currently Nova Scotia\u2026and while it\u2019s beautiful here, I have to say that it\u2019s very humid and wet. I\u2019m a prairie girl and I\u2019m used to dry and warm.<\/p>\n

That being the case, there\u2019s been lots of hoodies and hot drinks. For some reason, coffee hasn’t been agreeing with me lately (making me feel sort of nauseous), so tea has been my drink of choice.<\/p>\n

I LOVE tea and while I\u2019m good with most any brand, I have to say that David\u2019s Tea is my favourite. In general, I find that loose leaf teas are always better.<\/p>\n

\"Red<\/p>\n

Since it’s chilly where I am, I thought I\u2019d share my favourite way to prepare tea.<\/p>\n

If I don\u2019t have time, it\u2019s just a cup of boiling water and a tea bag, but if I have time I like to make it special.
\nFirst, I like to steam some milk. Here I\u2019m steaming plain almond milk and I like to make my tea actually HALF MILK. It\u2019s really creamy this way and feels more \u201cdessert-like\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Steam<\/p>\n

I steep the tea bag in the half milk\/half boiling water for the time it says on the package of tea (usually 2-3 minutes).<\/p>\n

For sweetener, I\u2019ve been trying to veer away from high-sugar options like honey\u2026so I really love using NuNaturals vanilla stevia<\/a> for a sweetener. Just 2-4 drops is usually enough sweetener for me and it\u2019s no calories and doesn\u2019t have that funky aftertaste other stevias can have.<\/p>\n

\"NuNaturals<\/p>\n

There you have it!<\/p>\n

\"Tea<\/p>\n

It\u2019s such a simple way to do tea, but because it\u2019s so creamy and I use a delicious flavour (Red Velvet Cake is my favourite!) it is almost like a liquid dessert. However, it\u2019s only around 20-30 calories!<\/p>\n

Do you like David\u2019s tea? Do you have a favourite flavour? Have you ever experienced coffee making you feel nauseous?<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Internet has been very touch and go lately\u2026so this last week I haven\u2019t been around much. We\u2019ve been in the Eastern provinces \u2013 PEI, New Brunswick, and currently Nova Scotia\u2026and while it\u2019s beautiful here, I have to say that it\u2019s very humid and wet. I\u2019m a prairie girl and I\u2019m used to dry and warm. That being<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,1182,4],"tags":[2331,2333,2326,2334,2338,2336,2330,2329,2340,2337,2335,2339,2327,2328,2332],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4458"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4468,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions\/4468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}