The first theme - chai

[fujiko1601]

Chai is an Indian tea drink with milk and spices. There are a lot of recipes for it and anyone can come up with their own. helike provided us with a link here. There are also premade mixes available.

Typical chai ingredients are for example:

black tea
ginger
cinnamon
clover
cardamom
milk
sugar

Go, find something that you like. Some basic how to hereI

Comments

[helike]

I'd go for "theme". Fits well.
I've been thinking about experimenting with chai XD

[fujiko1601]

Yes, this one is dedicated to you. :D

[helike]

I feel honoured :D

[dayadhvam_triad]

oooh *bookmarks link*

I'd call them themes. Anyway, I don't know if I'll get around to this, but I'll try. Right now all the tea ingredients I have are jasmine green tea bags, hot water, milk & sugar, lol. Some of the spices sound awesome though. :D

[fujiko1601]

From what I read (from the second link, I think) it is possible to do it with jasmine tea although for more classical one simple black tea would be better. I'm not sure if pepper for example would go with green tea. Cardamom, cinnamon and nutmeg maybe? I'm sure you could find a recipe with jasmine tea if you don't feel like buying or borrowing black.

[dayadhvam_triad]

Thanks for the spice tips. :D It'd be interesting to combine these with the tea; I haven't drunk much chai before.

[xbluedawn]

I would love to make my own, but I'll probably have to hunt for cardamom. I should get the rest of the ingredients easily. If not, I'll buy the pre-made mix.

[fujiko1601]

All the ingredients are optional, you can use some other spice you like or stick with the ones you have. Trying premade mixes is fine as well.

[micaela_a]

Wahooooo! I finally put all ingredients together and make time to do it! * happy dance *
See you the 30th! :D
And I like "themes" too :D

[fujiko1601]

See you on the 30th. I have tried a few times, but there is still a lot of experimenting to be done to find what I like best.