Food

During the winter months, I find myself drinking fewer cups of coffee and more herbal teas. It used to be that there were just one or two types of tea available for purchase in grocery stores. Nowadays, there’s a huge selection of regular and herbal teas to choose from.

Some people forgo the packets of tea completely and instead prefer preparing a big pot of water steeped with natural herbs or green tea. I personally am enchanted when I watch a traditional Moroccan tea pouring taking place in which sweet tea with lots of mint leaves is poured from very high up, which makes a loud bubbling noise as it lands in glasses. Traditional tea from Tripoli includes boiled peanuts inside the tea.

These days, you can buy a number of interestingly shaped teapots and unique glasses. You can also purchase extracts of lemon grass, lemon verbena, chamomile, cinnamon and add them to your steaming pot, alongside slices of orange or lemon. Alternatively, you can just add a bunch of fresh herbs, such as sage, rosemary, mint or thyme to a pot of boiling water.

Below, you’ll see that I’ve included three recipes for cookies that are the perfect complement for a mug of steaming hot herbal tea.