Cubed Fruit Tea

These diced cubes of dried and candied berries reconstitute into luscious, flavorful, juicy bites of fruit in hot water, offering both a detoxifying, steaming fruit tea to warm your hands and heart, and a healthy snack of seasonal flavors and chewy sweet goodness.

Dried Verbena

The first thing we do before stepping foot in the spice shop, is crush a leaf of verbena (or as we know it, luiza) between our palms, rub it between our fingers, lift our hands to our faces and inhale…There, now your senses are cleansed and ready! Boil your verbena as a loose-leaf tea with an optional lemon peel, steep for five minutes, and add sugar to taste. Mmmmm, zen….