Recipes

Spice Dyed Easter Eggs

25 min

Discover a natural and vibrant way to dye your Easter eggs using spices. This project offers a delightful twist on traditional egg coloring, infusing each egg with the unique hues of your spice pantry: turmeric, hibiscus tea, and beet powder. These spice-based colors impart a subtle pastel palette, sure to make the Easter Bunny proud. Plus, it's a fun and educational activity for the whole family to enjoy!

Hibiscus Chia Pudding

5 min

This pudding is a gluten-free treat with a floral twist. It's both sweet and tart, and reminds us of fruit punch Jello. Simply steep Hibiscus in hot water, combine with chia seeds and agave, and refrigerate overnight for a luscious pudding that will make breakfast a breeze. It's a nostalgic, no-heat-required meal that's easy to prep and even easier to eat. Garnish with yogurt and raspberries for a burst of flavor. Substitute coconut yogurt to make this one vegan-friendly.  If you like to meal prep, a triple batch will keep well and make enough for several days. Enjoy! 

Frozen Tea Cubes

Got leftover tea? You can easily repurpose it to make some easy, no-waste ice cubes that are the perfect companion for cocktails or simply for chilling your favorite summer beverage. Our favorites that we think you should try are:  Hibiscus (Use for margaritas, mint tea, and mojitos) Butterfly Pea flower (Use for cocktails, sparkling water, and horchata) Black tea (Use with lemonade for an Arnold Palmer)

Flour Tortillas

It's no secret that flour tortillas are champions of versatility! You can top them with anything, fill them with anything, and they work great for snacks or for meals. What's less well known, however, is that they're also incredibly easy to make! Really! And nothing beats a fresh, warm tortilla.When making tortillas at home, use the opportunity to be creative! By using different spices or flours, you can inject a little flair into your recipe, and make your tortillas truly unique! In this recipe, we use Saffron and Butterfly Pea Flower to give our tortillas unique and distinctive colors. You can substitute a portion of the all-purpose flour for other flours, too, for more flavor and texture variety.Recipes such as this one traditionally use lard, but we've found that vegetable oil makes a perfectly suitable substitution. It's easy to double or triple this recipe, and they'll keep in your refrigerator in an airtight container for a couple of weeks. Homemade tortillas are best when fresh, though, and we don't think you'll have any problem finding ways to use them!

Roselle-Rooibos Drink

Afro-Vegan by Bryant Terry is a staff favorite vegan cookbook that we always refer back to. And bonus? Every recipe has a song or book choice to go with it! Hibiscus tea is delicious, and we love finding new ways to use it.From Bryant Terry author of Afro-Vegan: "This drink is tart, sweet, and floral and has become one of my favorite summertime beverages. In this recipe, I call for fresh pineapple to give the drink texture and vibrant tropical flavor, but when my editor, Melissa Moore, brought me a bag of fresh peaches from the farm of Mas Masumoto, I peeled, sliced, and used them in place of the pineapple. It was off the chain! I think any other stone fruit, such as nectarines or cherries, would also work well and I encourage you to experiment with adding them. For a late fall or winter spin, serve this drink warm, omitting the fresh fruit and boiling the tea and hibiscus with 1/4 teaspoon whole Cloves in a nod to how roselle is prepared in Trinidad and Tobago."

Hibiscus Margarita

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo like never before with this delicious cocktail. The hibiscus infuses a deep rich red color to this libation... Add a slice of lime and Sel de Mer to the rim of your glass and you have the colors of the Mexican flag! Almost cranberry in flavor, it's got a "zing" that is enhanced by using silver tequila and the homemade spiced simple syrup. Tune in to the mariachi station on Pandora while you whip these up for an absolute fiesta!