My Avocado Tree/Bocca B Sunbeam Catcher Beautiful Pink Tea

This is Bocca B, my teeny little avocado tree who loves feasting on coffee grounds and organic compost!

 Bocca B, 

my teeny little super tree,

oh how I like thee!

Green sunbeam 

catchers make beautiful pink tea - 

great for the kidney!

Tea party

guests who try it will all agree -

great tea = caffeine-free!

Ten long years

before you become all fruity - 

that's just fine by me!

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Bocca B Green Sunbeam Catchers Beautiful Pink Tea

Ingredients:

7 leaves of the Bocca B

A liter of clean, fresh water (preferably filtered) - not tap water

Preparation:

Bring water to a boil.

Reduce the heat.

Place 7 leaves of the Bocca B tree in the water. Put the lid on the cookware and let simmer until the water turns pink.

Turn off the heat. 

Let the tea cool to room temperature.

Pour into beautiful tea cups!

Call all your fellow Anne of Green Gables fans ages 9 and up to have a mostly raw food tea party! 

Look Ma, no caffeine! This is waaay better than drinking sugar-laden pretend-tea orange juice!

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(I heard that another kidney cleanser tea is the edible weed pansit-pansitan. I usually like my pansit-pansitan raw, in a green smoothie. But if you want to try pansit-pansitan tea, just steep the pansit-pansitan leaves in a nice tea pot filled with boiling water.)

Can you tell I'm happy that my nephrologist said my kidneys are a-ok? :D

***If you have kidney problems, it's best to listen to your doctor, not to me :D

My Avocado Tree/Bocca B Sunbeam Catcher Beautiful Pink Tea

Aloe Vera!

Aloe vera is a wonderful ingredient added to organic shampoos! Some non-organic shampoos claim they have it in their ingredients too.

I had a classmate from Tacoma who kept a pot of aloe vera in her house to apply to insect bites and cuts and swore by it!

And guess, what? You know what's coming, right?

You got it!

Some raw foodists love to eat aloe vera too! (As you can see by the cuts we've made!)

I got my pot a while back. Wish I took a picture then, because you'd see how emaciated it looked. And compare it with how it looks now-so much healthier! I fed it some coffee grinds from the nearest hip coffee house*... and a few weeks later, voila! The leaves turned all succulent!

These are perfect for putting in smoothies!

I use a sharp knife to separate the green outer covering from its slimy insides and then scrape the insides off into a bowl or my blender and blend it with some leafy greens and fruit. (Although it's better to use the bowl first to make sure no green prickly parts get included in the smoothie mix!)


*Sosyal ng aloe vera ko, di ba? Even I don't drink signature coffee or any kind of coffee for that matter, but my plants and the worms in my garden do. By the way, I'm not judging you for drinking overpriced coffee. I don't even judge you for drinking coffee, period. I drank it all the time in college. I also lived in Seattle, where people really loved coffee for the coffee, and not so much for the coffee house experience. So my first two years there, I drank it. But I don't drink it anymore because it's bad for my throat. Your throat is probably much healthier than mine. And I'm pretty sure you find my other purchases outrageous too. So stop getting all defensive! :P



When you visit a coffee house, just ask for the grinds - these are just discards the coffee house will gladly give away for free. I guess if you're not a coffee drinker like me you can always buy coffee or cookies for others so that they don't brand you as that crazy lady who eats only raw organic veggies and comes to our coffee house to mooch our coffee grinds!

Aloe Vera!