Impress your guests with your culinary talents, through one simple recipe. Our holiday cheeseball will look impressive on your table and will taste delicious. It is a fantastic way to get more tea into your diet even if you don't drink tea! Ingredients: 16 ounces cream cheese softened 1/3 cup sour cream 8 ounces medium cheddar cheese shredded 2 tablespoons of Mississippi Sunshine Poultry Rub 1/2 cup green onions sliced 2 tablespoons dried cranberries chopped 1 cup of pecans chopped small Mississippi Sunshine Poultry Rub Directions: In a large stand mixer, add the cream cheese and whip until smooth. Add sour cream, cheddar cheese, green onions, dried cranberries and Mississippi Sunshine Poultry Rub in increments so that everything incorporates...
This week we welcomed Dr Zhang (UGA) and Dr Bi (MSU) and three students to the farm to work on some tea plant breeding. This is where farming and science come together to help create strains of plants with new capabilities. Do tea plants need to have a seed? In the wild, yes tea plants would need a seed in order to reproduce. At a tea farm we can certainly make use of tea seeds but once you have all the tea plants you need, you really do not need the seeds. Tea plants can also be reproduced by cuttings as well. For the tea plant to live out its years as a successful producer of harvestable tea leaves it actually...
Written by guest blogger, Flo Sares who lives in Colorado and writes articles and humor through fridaywithflo.wordpress.com. The views and opinions expressed by Flo Sares, are those of her own and are not necessarily the same as The Great Mississippi Tea Company. A visit to The Great Mississippi Tea Company “We’re going to visit a tea farm in Mississippi.” “Excuse me? They grow tea in Mississippi?” When I first heard of this tea, my response was the same. I can’t help but picture the high mountain teas of China, India, or Taiwan. But altitude is not the fundamental requirement. On this tea farm in southern Mississippi there is loess soil, a soil high in minerals, specifically iron, which makes for a particularly sweet tea....
Our Chai and Pumpkin Spice teas have the perfect seasonal flavor. These two teas are wonderful teas for the fall and holiday season and contain our US grown Black tea. The blend of spices in each tea is comforting and full of aroma. Spiced teas have a way of connecting a taste to a special time. Pumpkin Spice flavors connect you to the beautiful feeling of fall while Chai has a Christmas seasonal feeling. Let's look closer at each tea: A Chai made with US grown black tea Chai was originated in India and is a very common drink there. Many families will have their own blend. Chai itself means "tea" in many languages. Thus, you do not need to refer...
