Moon Milk - Say Good-Might Moon

 Ingredients:                                                                      Difficulty Rating:  Easy                                                             

1 cup milk (whole milk, 2% or fat free milk, almond milk or milk of your choice)

½ teaspoon turmeric

½ inch cinnamon stick.  If you don’t have a cinnamon stick use a scant ½ teaspoon of cinnamon

½ inch ginger root.  If you don’t have ginger root you can either use Penzys Sliced China Ginger Root or ½ ginger powder.  If you use Penzys Sliced China Ginger Root try it first with 1 piece, it’s strong. 

2-3 green cardamom pods, slightly crushed

2 black peppercorns.  If your pepper isn’t very strong, use 3.  Don’t crush them.

A few scrapes of fresh nutmeg

1 teaspoon honey or to taste

Preparation: 

Put milk in a saucepan at low heat.  While it is heating add all the ingredients 

except the honey.

Add the honey to the teapot or French press or to individual cups.   

When the milk looks like it’s about to simmer, shut off the heat. 

If you are using a French Press, pour everything into it an stir well.   After you’ve stirred it well, put the top on, but do not push the press down on the plunger until it steeps for about 5 miutes.

If you are using a strainer, stir everything, cover the pot and let it stand so the flavors marry.  After at least 5 minutes, remove the cover, stir again and  pour it through the strainer into a teapot.

To double the recipe, double all ingredients

 Enjoy.  Oh, it’s best served in your pajamas.