It’s Tea Teenie Time! Martinis to escape the heat!
July 24, 2011
It’s so hot and every one is just too grumpy! Here’s our Grasshopper Green Tea Teenie Recipe. For the WOW factor – just add some organic MATCHA, it kicks up the green color naturally!
The key is using excellent grades of Sencha & Matcha Teas
Good quality organic Sencha has both a lemoney, fresh as well as a brothy flavor. Little Green World’s Organic Matcha gives another depth and level of flavor. Both teas are frothy and delicious when combined with alcohol. Your Tea Martini will have striking green presentation without any artificial anything.
Shochu is the perfect compliment
Shochu is a popular Japanese liquor. It has a flavor similiar to a fine Vodka, but it is a bit smoother and sweeter with not as much of a alcohol “bite.” This is the perfect compliment to the fresh, lemony flavor of Sencha.
What you will need
- 4 oz brewed and cooled organic Sencha tea (For purchase go to littlegreenworld.com)
- 1/2 teaspoon of Matcha – great taste while adding bright green color to the drink base
- 2 oz Shochu (or organic RAIN Vodka)
- ½ oz agave or some local honey
- Ice
- Cocktail Shaker (or a glass with a lid)
- Martini glass
Make that drink!
- Pack the cocktail shaker with ice
- Add the Schochu, Sencha, Matcha and sweetner
- Shake until it becomes frothy
- Serve in a Martini Glass
Respite from the heat!
To beat the heat and the dog days of summer chill with our special cocktail. . When you combine the smooth vodka with the rich, lemony Teas you get a cocktail that is truly magnificent. And to top it off, it looks so good that your friends will line up to drink them! They may be green with envy…
Do be a TEAZE!
May 22, 2011
Enjoy refreshing Iced Tea made with Premium Long Loose Gourmet Teas
Whisk and Spoon has the largest TEA collection available to distributors, wholesalers and gourmet retailers.
Whisk and Spoon’s specialty TEAS are organic, fair trade, bloom (flowering) along with hundreds of non-organic single estate and traditional teas.
Available in our easy Tear and Pour ™ pouches, Whisk and Spoon makes Premium Gourmet Teas available to distributors, wholesalers, gourmet café and retailers.
Whisk and Spoon Tear and Pour ™ Teas can be used with many brands of infusers and french presses. We have several pouch sizes available to work with 16, 20 and 32 ounce infusers.
Our premeasured pouches of long loose leaf teas make it easy and affordable to drink premium gourmet teas.Benefits:
Gourmet Retailers and Cafés now have a new product offering, without added any more expensive equipment. Stores and Cafés now becomes a destination for consumers of quality tea.
Features for Whisk and Spoon Tear and Pour ™ Teas
- Delivers superior and fresh flavor
- Your customers can easily try premium varietals and blended teas
- Provides a superior flavor to everyday tea bags
- Is a fun and engaging tea drinking experience for customers
- Eliminates expensive tea loss from Bulk Tea Inventories
- Saves time and money for training new staff
- Easy to use in busy café operations with demanding customers
Certified Organic Private-label teas flows onto menus! Chains are capitalizing on novelty factor, high margins
April 15, 2011
A growing number of hotels with dining chains are turning to Whisk and Spoon when getting Private Label Certified Organic Teas!
Over the past few months, Westin Hotel selected Whisk and Spoon for Certified Organic private-label signature White Tea. Joining the ranks of upscale spas and hoteliers that have been working with Whisk and Spoon, the Westin now joins a number of high-end independents and resturants that have Whisk and Spoon creating signature certified organic teas.
The emerging trend toward showcasing proprietary-label teas offers a number of advantages for chain operators, experts say, not the least of which is the ability to enjoy a higher profit margin on sales by the cup sales.
Showcasing Certified Organic private-label Teas enables companies to further differentiate their brands from the competition, they add.
“A lot of hotels have created private-label Teas,” said Angie Ecklels, a marketing manager who works with Whisk and Spoon private label tea innovation team. “Restaurants seem to be moving this way too. We are getting a lot of serious inquiries for our individually single cup Tear & Pour Teas™ that work with both infusers and presses. Also the organic pyramid tea bags with custom labeling remain popular.”
“It’s a unique, organic and kosher – a signature certified organic tea that’s special to your guests,” Eckels said. “Whisk and Spoon developed a signature tea for the Weston; and offers a simple, yet comprehensive program industry wide. Our Certified Organic PL Tea program is geared towards hotels, spas, resturants who are branding their companies with an organic tea and realizing profitable center. Many conventions centers are also utilizing our services for specialty events.
Eckels wanted a program that can give clients a unique offering – Whisk and Spoon responded to the need. Once a chain gets our program they realize the potential an move to our more sophisticated products offered by Whisk and Spoon. Our latest project involves working with the a chain spas located in Southern USA – we are creating a new customized line of Signature Spa Teas specifically for this chain.
“Working with such diverse clients like stadiums,Trade Shows, hotels, small business to wedding planners”, Angie stated, “Whisk and Spoon makes a lot of premium products for private label.” “It’s such a bonus to be manufacturing their organic premium introductory tea line in the Tri-State Area – which makes going local easy!
If you are a business and would like to hear about the Whisk and Spoon PL Certified Organic Tea Program – Please contact us 610 624 3680/sales@whiskandspoon.com We will be happy to discuss our program with you.
Fundraising – doing it right. Only take 2 minutes!
January 16, 2011
Not a dry eye in the house on Saturday Nite January 15,2011
Liz and Jay Scott put on another fantastic event for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) which was the continued vision of the founder and creator, Alexandra “Alex” Scott. Reading heartfelt letters from families who benefit from funds raised by ALSF, moved every one attending the silent auction . With over 100 volunteers, and participation from major corporations this evening fundraiser does it right for a great start to the New Year and the vision “a cure for all children with cancer”
The most important message was that it all started with a lemonade stand and a vision. That little stand and little girl’s vision turned into over $1,000,000. This organization continues today through her parents, friends, volunteers, community involvement and a bunch of little kids raising a lot of awareness. Alex would have been 15 on January 18, 2011.
Looking for a great organization to join or foundation to volunteer?
- GFWC Jr. Woman’s Club of Springfield has been working with local and national charities. This organization has been around for over 50 years. This years chosen charity: Be The Change Foundation.
- Debbie Pieri Angel Foundation started by her children vision is to reach out to our local communities, individuals and families who have been affected by terminal disease or life-altering catastrophe.
- Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) – The vision ” a cure for ALL children with cancer”
- St. Baldrick’s Foundation – a volunteer-driven charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives. You don’t have do be a shavee!
Feel Free to contact us for more information on these organizations.
Good luck and have a great Martin Luther King day! The Whisk and Spoon Team.
WHAT – Thanksgiving is next WEEK!
November 16, 2010
My favorite drink to the start of the holiday Season
Chai Tea with a bit of MOXI
Why not try and make chai from scratch? You can vary the following according to taste. I love the stuff as an alternative. When I was in India almost every street corner has a “chai” stall. 
My Whisk and SPOON Recipe
- 1/3 water
- 2/3 milk (soy and rice work great too)
- 1 Whisk and Spoon Pyramid tea bag for each cup measured
- freshly chopped ginger & a few cardamom pods
- a little piece clove (optional)
- organic sugar (organic palm or agave are our fav’s) to make it sweet to your taste
Throw it all into a saucepan cold EXCEPT TEA BAGS and bring slowly to a boil. When boiling turn off the heat. Swirl it around until it reaches the desired strength and the spices provide a kick. Strain it into small glasses.
Alcohol optional
October, usually it’s Food & Recipes: Here’s 3 Great reasons to drink tea.
September 23, 2010
October, usually we post a new recipe with pork, but not this year. Right now Whisk and Spoon is getting ready for the October Pink’d campaign, new fundraiser ideas and the Major League Baseball Playoffs. We know it’s football season, however, here we are and the Phil’s are right back on top of the division… Wahoo! 
Just glad not to be headed out to Vegas next month, because Whisk and Spoon has a couple of weddings to attend in October – which are always a lot more fun than trade shows. We would love to receive your comments on the Pink’d logo – tell us your thought by leaving us a comment to post. Save the date! October is the month for purchasing more tea – this year two charities benefit from our sales.
3 great reasons to drink tea
Tea is Effective in Lowering BAD cholesterol.
Journal of Nutrition found that consuming 30 oz. of black tea daily – the fluid equivalent of 2.5 cans of soda – reduced Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL, or “bad”) cholesterol levels by more than 10 percent in mildly hypercholesterolemic adult study participants.
Tea is Heart Healthy
Studies published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association & American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) study participants who drank 3-4 cups of tea per found that incidence of myocardial infarction or heart attack decreased by 43 percent AND it was also found that tea significantly lower risk of death following a heart attack – a decrease of up to 44 percent.
Tea is good for you even if you are still smoking – Cough!
Tea was helpful in some protection of heavy smokers. The clinical intervention study found that heavy smokers who consumed four servings per day of green tea had 31% lower levels of 8-OHdG (a biomarker for oxidative damage to DNA) in white blood cells. Oxidative damage to DNA is one factor which increases cancer risk and the researchers suggest that a significant reduction of DNA damage found with green tea drinking may help reduce cancer risk in smokers.
A multitude of research studies point to drinking tea as a way to promote health. Tea is also being supported by more and more doctors as it can potentially reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease and certain types of cancer.
Tea is an ideal beverage — delicious, refreshing, soothing and healthful. A lot of people ask why Whisk and Spoon is so crazy about organic teas – our answer is always the same – unlike fruits and veggies – tea doesn’t get washed.
Can’t wait for your feedback on the Pink’d logo.
This month’s recipe: Diabetic Friendly Comfort Food – Mac N Cheese. For the recipe send an email whiskandspoon.com/contact/
Major League Baseball Players drink tea! Custom Printed Cookies and Tea
July 7, 2010
Are the Phillies going to win in 2010?
WE HOPE SO!
What’s HOT – Custom Printed cookies with your favorite Major League Baseball Player.
We’ve got them all, we can print your MLB player, college alma mater, funniest family photo for your next family reunion. Cookies ship nationwide. Take 2.5 weeks to bake, make and ship direct to you!
Getting Married – we’ll print your invitation on our wedding tea or cookies… www.whiskandspoon.com
Wearing of the Green – a bit of Irish Folk Lore
March 1, 2010
What are fairies – little whispers of the future.
A bit of folklore or not?
In Ireland two distinct fairy types exist—the trooping fairies and the solitary fairies. You will find the trooping fairies in merry bans about the hawthorn tree or at feasts in gilded fairy palaces. They delight in company, while the solitary fairies avoid large gatherings, preferring alone and separate from one another.
The trooping faeries are the major and presiding residents of fairyland; but the solitary ones (leprechauns, selkies, banshees, merrows, etc…) have greater interest in mortal affairs and therefore are generally more familiar to us. Their favorite foods are pea soup, ham and cabbage, with bit of stout and some lovely scones or biscuits…
Fairies exist all over the world. In Ireland they are the ’sidhe’ (pronounced shee), a name they have retained from the ancient days. Look under bushes and circles of stones that crop up all over Ireland—called fairy raths and you will find trooping faeries. The fairy raths crop up in pastures all over Ireland, and the farmers never plow them up for fear of disturbing the fairies that live there and bringing down some bad luck upon themselves.
If you want your children to be brilliant, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be geniuses, read them more fairy tales. ~Albert Einstein
In loving memory of my mom, Nancy
our favorite split pea soup & and irish soda bread recipes are available
drop a line to info@whiskandspoon.com.
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Éirinn go brách!
CROCKTOBER Fest! Tailgates, Fundraiser & Fall Fun…. Go Phillies!
October 11, 2009
It’s Crocktober!
We make our signature dish with fresh garlic!
Whisk and Spoon Bourbon Pulled Pork
Time to pull out the crock pot. This Whisk and Spoon signature dish uses trimmed boneless pork shoulder. It cooks long and slow in your crockpot with our homemade Kentucky Bourbon BBQ sauce until it is tender and falling apart. Our secret ? Use plenty of fresh garlic gloves kept whole…
Ingredients
Trim up 1.5 pounds of pork shoulder and cut up in large pieces (3 or 4) and place in a large freezer storage bag.
Add to bag:
- 2 cups ketchup
- ¼ cup tomato paste
- 1/3 cup cider vinegar
- 2 tablespoon liquid smoke
- ¼ cup Worcestershire sauce
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- 3 to 4 drops of hot pepper sauce
- 1 garlic bulb (break apart the glove & keep whole)
- 1 small onion – chopped fine
- 1/2 cup bourbon (drinkable)
Squish it all together and lay flat in your freeze until game day. Thaw in fridge and empty bag of pork and BBQ sauce in crock-pot. Cover and cook for 6-8 hours on low or 4 – 5 hours on high. Remove pork from crock-pot and place in dish. Take two forks and pull apart pork to shred. Add as much BBQ sauce as you wish. Serve with slaw and cornbread.
N U T R I T I O N F A C T S
Serving Size: 4.6 oz
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Amount per serving: Calories 304 Calories from Fat 164.
Slaw & cornbread not included in nutritional information.
