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Tea Cakes Recipe and Tea Bread

Tea Cakes Recipe - There's nothing so enjoyable as a cup of your favorite tea and some hot buttered tea cakes. Or maybe a nice fruity tea cake or a nice slice of lemon tea bread.

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Green Tea Benefits Health

Green Tea Benefits Health. We're not always so fortunate that something we enjoy is also good for us. So, how lucky are we that green tea is healthy and promotes wellbeing.

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How To Brew Tea

How To Brew Tea. What could be more important than brewing a good cup of tea the right way. Get the water right the tea leaves right and you can make a really good cup of tea.

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Growing Coffee Beans

Growing Coffee Beans.

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Coffee Brewing Methods - Old and New

Coffee Brewing Methods were once limited to the percolator, but done properly any of the listed methods for brewing coffee will produce a delicious cup of coffee. They all bring out distinctive tastes and aspects of the coffee ground you use.

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Herbal Tea Recipes and Herbal Teas

Most herbal tea recipes are based on traditional brews used in healing from ancient times. Herbal teas or tisanes, aren't actually made from the tea bush Camilla Sinensis, but they have been consumed for at least as long, thats over 5,000 years.

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Judging Coffee Beans The Barista Way

Judging Coffee Beans.

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Coffee and History a World of Adventure

Coffee and History - one legend says that a goat herder in Ethiopia saw his charges eating the red berries from a nearby tree and became excited. The rest as they say is 400 million cups a day.

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Dandelion Tea Recipes from The Tea or Coffee Cafe

Dandelion Tea is a seriously healthy option. The tea can be made from the leaves or the roots of the dandelion or even from the whole plant and will help maintain a healthy liver and soothe digestive disorders.

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Nettle Tea from The Tea or Coffee Cafe

Nettle Tea provides health benefits that have been known for centuries. So, how dow we brew it, when to drink it and the what are health benefits of using nettles for tea.

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What is Oolong Tea - The Black Dragon

What is Oolong Tea - The word comes from the Chinese, meaning Black Dragon and there are a dozen legends surrounding the origin of the name. But one thing is certain, Oolong is a fine tea.

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Facts About Tea an Ancient Brew

Facts About Tea an Ancient Brew. Tea drinking is older than coffee, older than wine and maybe even older than beer and tea leaf production exceeds 2 billion pounds annually.

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How To Store Tea

How To Store Tea - Even fine teas can go stale and storing tea properly is important to ensure your tea does not degrade and you enjoy a fine brew every time.

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Yerba Mate Tea from South America

Yerba Mate Tea is grown in Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil it is a South American wonder. But, each country has its own distinctive style.

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The Best Coffee Cake Recipes

The Best Coffee Cake Recipes - commonly used in desserts, coffee in food isn't limited to sweets. Try our coffee and walnut sponge cake, espresso brownies or black russian cake.

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Coffee Beans and BlendsCoffee Beans

It's all about taste. Arabica or Robusta Coffee Beans and Blends - Take Your Pick

Yerba Mate Tea GourdYerba Mate Tea

And you thought only the Japanese had tea rituals. Why don't you pick up a gourd and bombilla and have some Yerba Mate tea, South American style.

Coffee Mills and Gourmet CoffeeGourmet Coffee Blends

The best gourmet coffee blends from coffee producing countries around the World - Our Gourmet Coffee Cafe.

Dandelion Tea is Good for YouSeriously Healthy Dandelion Tea

The common dandelion is a really nutritious food and dandelion tea drinkers swear by its health giving benefits.

Coffee Bean Roasting MachinesHome Roasting Coffee

Home coffee roasting machines are available and home coffee roasting is quick and easy. All it takes is a little bit of trial and error.

Loose Leaf Tea and Tea BlendsAll Types of Loose leaf Tea

There is a loose leaf tea to suit every taste. From a Darjeeling to a White Silver Needle or a Japanese Green Tea, they're all at the Tea House.