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Hostage to Fortune - A Tarot Tea Recipe

  • Writer: Katreader
    Katreader
  • May 25, 2020
  • 2 min read

I'd like to welcome Kirsten Weiss to the blog today. Kirsten is an author who pens several mysteries including the Tea and Tarot Mystery series. Hostage to Fortune is the second book in that series and was released last week. Kirsten shares a bit about her book as well as her recipe for Empress Tarot Tea.



Empress Tarot Tea

A cozy mystery about a Tea and Tarot room would be incomplete without recipes at the back. And the nice thing about tea recipes is, they’re so easy! And even if you’re not into the Tarot side of the story, there’s something a little magical about mixing herbs.

In Hostage to Fortune, my fictional tearoom owners and amateur sleuths, Abigail and Hyperion, decide to up their marketing game and create some Tarot teas. This tea was named after The Empress Tarot card. The Empress card is about (among other things), the soft power of allowing things to happen, and she’s associated with the planet (and goddess) Venus. So, I chose herbs for this tea that are also associated with relaxation (and thyme is associated with Venus as well).

Here’s the recipe, a nice twist on traditional chamomile tea.

Ingredients:

1-2 parts dried lavender blossoms

4 parts dried chamomile blossoms

4 parts lemon thyme

Directions. Boil water and add water and herbs to cup. Steep 3-5 minutes. Parts should be small for just one cup–say 1/8 - 1.4 tsp lavender to 1/2 a tsp of the other two.

Note: lavender can have an assertive flavor, and not everyone is going to love it. But it is very relaxing. That said, a little goes a long way, so you may want to experiment with reducing the amount of lavender to taste.


Kirsten Weiss has never met a dessert she didn’t like, and her guilty pleasures are watching Ghost Whisperer re-runs and drinking red wine. The latter gives her heartburn, but she drinks it anyway.

Now based in Colorado Springs, CO, she writes genre-blending cozy mystery, supernatural and steampunk suspense, mixing her experiences and imagination to create vivid worlds of fun and enchantment.

If you like funny cozy mysteries, check out her Pie Town, Tea and Tarot, Paranormal Museum and Wits’ End books. If you’re looking for some magic with your mystery, give the Witches of Doyle, Riga Hayworth and Rocky Bridges books a try. And if you like steampunk, the Sensibility Grey series might be for you.

Kirsten sends out original short stories of mystery and magic to her mailing list. If you’d like to get them delivered straight to your inbox, make sure to sign up for her newsletter at kirstenweiss.com

Feel free to follow her on Twitter @KirstenWeiss, on Tumblr at kweiss01, on Pinterest at KirstenWeiss, or on Bookbub, get in touch on Facebook, post a picture of this book to Instagram and tag her @kirstenweissauthor, or send her an email. She’ll answer you personally…which may be a good or a bad thing, depending on your perspective.

Author Links:

Twitter: @KirstenWeiss

Instagram: @KirstenWeissAuthor


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