Green tea with citrus, honey, and ginseng...
 

My favorite drink at work lately is hot green tea, and I make
the perfect cup by brewing the tea bags and then adding any
blend of citrus juices (primarily lemon, lime, and a dash of
orange and sometimes grapefruit), a bit of honey, and a vial
or two of ginseng extract.

The caffeine and ginseng keep me going all night long and it
is so delicious. I doubt I'm enough of a connosieur to tell
the difference between different varieties of green tea,
though I did notice it with "white" green tea, which makes a
good blend with the regular green tea bag.

Green Tea: 4g
Water: 600g
Juice: 35g
Honey 3g
Ginseng: 10g

Cost: $0.50 to $0.75 per 20oz cup

Green tea with citrus, honey, and ginseng...
 

brainfart wrote:
> My favorite drink at work lately is hot green tea, and I make
> the perfect cup by brewing the tea bags and then adding any
> blend of citrus juices (primarily lemon, lime, and a dash of
> orange and sometimes grapefruit), a bit of honey, and a vial
> or two of ginseng extract.
>
> The caffeine and ginseng keep me going all night long and it
> is so delicious. I doubt I'm enough of a connosieur to tell
> the difference between different varieties of green tea,
> though I did notice it with "white" green tea, which makes a
> good blend with the regular green tea bag.
>
> Green Tea: 4g
> Water: 600g
> Juice: 35g
> Honey 3g
> Ginseng: 10g
>
> Cost: $0.50 to $0.75 per 20oz cup

What kind of ginseng is so cheap that even with 10g you can keep the
cost to under $1 per cup???

MarshalN
http://www.xanga.com/MarshalN

Green tea with citrus, honey, and ginseng...
 

MarshalN wrote:
> What kind of ginseng is so cheap that even with 10g you can keep the
> cost to under $1 per cup???
>
> MarshalN
> http://www.xanga.com/MarshalN

I'm going out on a limb and guessing they are the small vials of dark
ginseng extract. I just bought boxes of 12 vials for $1.00 per *box* at
a local dollar store, so the total cost would be less than .10 per vial
wich I'd guess to be 5-10g. Normally these vials sell for $5 per box at
asian markets (still less than .50 each)

- Dominic

Green tea with citrus, honey, and ginseng...
 

MarshalN wrote...
> What kind of ginseng is so cheap that even with 10g you can keep the
> cost to under $1 per cup???

Oh, sorry, I meant 10g or rather a 10ml vial of ginseng extract. I
get a box of 30 vials of Pine Brand Red Panax Ginseng Extractum for
about $5 at the Asian supermarket, and the green tea bags are several
dollars for a box of 100. The ginseng extract purports to contain
2000mg of ginseng, and even if I'm not sure if it gives me energy it
still tastes good.

Green tea with citrus, honey, and ginseng...
 

brainfart > wrote:
>My favorite drink at work lately is hot green tea, and I make
>the perfect cup by brewing the tea bags and then adding any
>blend of citrus juices (primarily lemon, lime, and a dash of
>orange and sometimes grapefruit), a bit of honey, and a vial
>or two of ginseng extract.

Do you really hate green tea so much that you want to punish it by
doing this? What did green tea do to you?
--scott


--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Green tea with citrus, honey, and ginseng...
 

Scott /5/06

> brainfart > wrote:
>> My favorite drink at work lately is hot green tea, and I make
>> the perfect cup by brewing the tea bags and then adding any
>> blend of citrus juices (primarily lemon, lime, and a dash of
>> orange and sometimes grapefruit), a bit of honey, and a vial
>> or two of ginseng extract.
>
> Do you really hate green tea so much that you want to punish it by
> doing this? What did green tea do to you?
> --scott

Scott, on top of all that that, he misspelled "vial."
Michael