Bite Me The Show About Edibles
Helping cooks make great cannabis edibles at home.
Create your own tasty, healthy cannabis edibles and take control of your high life! Bite Me is a weekly show that helps home cooks make fun, safe and effective cannabis edibles. Listen as host Margaret walks you through an marijuana infused recipe that she has tested in her home kitchen or interviews with expert guests. New episodes every Thursday.
Bite Me The Show About Edibles
Infused Bubble Tea Bliss
Ready to elevate your summer refreshment game? Discover how to create delicious cannabis infused bubble tea at home with this accessible, step-by-step guide that transforms the popular Taiwanese beverage into a customizable cannabis experience.
What makes this recipe truly special is how customizable it is to your preferences. You can experiment with potency, different tea varieties, sweetener alternatives, and milk options to create your perfect infused beverage. The result is a refreshing, fun summer drink that combines the fun of bubble tea with the benefits of precisely dosed cannabis—the perfect way to take control of your high life while beating the heat. Try this recipe today and discover why homemade edibles offer the best of both worlds: culinary creativity and cannabis customization.
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Welcome, friends, to episode 306, and today we're doing bubble tea. Welcome to Bite Me, the show about edibles where I help you take control of your high life. I'm your host and certified gonger, margaret, and I love helping cooks make safe and effective edibles at home. I'm so glad you're here, hi. Friends. Cooks make safe and effective edibles at home. I'm so glad you're here, hi friends.
Speaker 1:Welcome back to the show, to the podcast that explores the intersection of food culture and cannabis, helping cooks make great edibles at home. I'm so glad that you're here. What are you making today? Why don't you let me know via the fan mail? I would love to find out what it is that has you excited, what you're infusing in the kitchen and if you're just joining us for the first time. I'd also love to hear where you're listening from and if you've been sticking around for a while. I so dearly appreciate you. You're the reason why I'm making this podcast. So, as always, I encourage you to share the episode with a friend and, if you feel so compelled, to leave a five-star rating and review. That really does help spread the word about the show, because this is a niche podcast. Those little things really do make a difference.
Speaker 1:I'm pretty excited about today's episode because if you listened to last week's, you know that at this point that I had Christina Wong on the show to talk about entertaining in the cannabis space, and I'm really excited to take some of the things that I learned from her and apply them in my own life, whether it's the online community, the Bite Me Cannabis Club, which I encourage you to check out I would love to have you in there. I would like to host some in-person events as well. Start out small, maybe grow. Christina does beautiful events like absolutely stunning. If you haven't checked out that episode yet, I highly recommend that you do because you will be inspired. Recommend that you do because you will be inspired.
Speaker 1:Before we get into today's episode, let's do a little stoner trivia, because I know how much you love to test your knowledge. I'm taking a random card out of the deck the stoner trivia race to 420, and the question is for today which Saturday Night Live alumni was busted trying to smuggle nine pounds of cannabis through O'Hare Airport? Was it Steve Martin, bill Murray, john Belushi or Chris Farley? Well, isn't that interesting. I had no idea that this had happened to someone I shouldn't say had happened that a Saturday Night Live alum decided it was a good idea to try and smuggle nine pounds of cannabis through an airport. Talented, maybe not so bright. So which alumni was it? Was it Steve Martin, bill Murray, john Belushi or Chris Farley? And if you guessed Bill Murray, you would be correct. That is really shocking. I've always known, as many of you likely do as well, that Bill Murray has been an advocate for cannabis for quite some time. Trying to smuggle nine pounds of weed through an airport I don't know if that was your best move, bill, just saying there may have been a better way to try and get your weed from point A to point B. I'm not sure what that is, but nine pounds, no small amount either. That's a pretty healthy suitcase full of weed. And, of course, bill Murray. I don't know if you've ever heard of Bill Murray sightings. They have become a bit legend. I might have to include some of those in the show notes, but he's such an interesting character that fellow notes. But he's such an interesting character, that fellow. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, let's turn to the topic of today's episode, because I'm really looking forward to.
Speaker 1:This recipe was inspired by Christina Wong herself and, with permission. She said that, yes, I could share a recipe from her website and she has plenty of lovely recipes over there. So I was looking through the list of recipes that I was going to choose and if you've been following Christina at all and you should she is a phenomenal baker and she has done a lot of baking and her baked goods are gorgeous, like it's. They're stunning. So I specifically decided not to do one of those because I'm like I don't even know if I can even come close to making these look as beautiful as she does. So I was like I'm going to choose something else and I came across a boba milk, also known as bubble tea, and I thought I haven't had bubble tea in forever and I enjoy bubble tea. It's delicious. If you haven't tried it, then you are going to enjoy this particular recipe, and if you have tried it, and you know what I'm talking about, you're in for a real treat, because, did you know? You can make it yourself and it's not that difficult, it's super easy. So, from her website, fruit and Flour this is what she says is the preamble to this recipe.
Speaker 1:Boba milk, also known as bubble tea, is a popular drink that originated in Taiwan in the 1980s. It is a refreshing drink that's made by combining tea, milk and tapioca pearls, which give the drink its distinctive chewy texture. While you can buy the boba milk tea at many bubble tea shops, making a cannabis-infused version at home is easy and delicious, I concur. Now in my town there are a couple of bubble tea shops, and one of them I haven't even. It's been open for a little while and haven't made it in there yet. As much as I do enjoy it, I just never think to go. I've had bubble tea many times and the tapioca pearls are really, really are one of my favorite parts about it.
Speaker 1:Now I have seen that you can make your own tapioca pearls. That are for those who are so inclined. I know I have a cookbook on my shelf that is not within arm's reach right now, a cannabis cookbook that shows you how to make the bubble tea pearls, the tapioca pearls, if you're so inclined. So I'll link to that, if I can remember which book that it's in, because at this point I have quite a few books, which is one of the reasons why I love to have the different cannabis cookbooks, because I find I learn something from each and every one of them. But if you're so inclined, you can do that. But don't worry, you don't have to. That will add an extra step to the process, and while this is easy to make, there are a few different steps to creating a really good bubble tea. A few different steps to creating a really good bubble tea.
Speaker 1:What do you need to make bubble tea? Well, you probably have most of what you need. You're going to need milk, a brown sugar syrup, the boba pearls and tea, and that's it. Now you may be asking where is the infusion point in this recipe? It's the cannamil. You can use milk. I think I used whole because I had whole milk on hand.
Speaker 1:For those of you who don't know, I live with my father and he loves milk, often drinking a large glass. I haven't done that since I was a child. He'll often ask me if I want a glass of milk. I'm like no, no, thank you. I don't really drink milk. Now I use milk, obviously in recipes like this, this boba tea recipe. Sometimes I use it to make other forms of dairy that I enjoy much more, like yogurt or cottage cheese, and I, of course, like many people, love cheese. So I'm not against milk per se, but sitting down to drink a glass of milk, I just I don't personally get it. He loves it, not me, but anyway, that's why I went with the choice of whole milk. You can also use oat, almond, soy, coconut. The only thing that Christina is recommending that you don't use is skim milk To make your can of milk.
Speaker 1:The nice thing you've heard me talking about it at all is Vanessa Lavorato introduced to me the concept that you can infuse in 30 minutes and extract most of the cannabinoids that will make up this infusion, and then doing it for longer really is a marginal increase in cannabinoids in your infusion. So the beautiful thing is you can make this can of milk while you're getting the other things ready, because it's only going to take you half an hour. Now I did it in my Levo 2 device because I just set it and forget it, but I did change it because the default on that device is two hours. Now, if you don't have a device or you don't want to get one out, obviously not a problem. Just do it on the stove like you would a regular infusion. I like to do it in a pot of water with a clean glass jar with your contents in it in the pot of water and let it simmer for 30 minutes.
Speaker 1:Christina also does outline personalizing your dose for this particular recipe. As it's written, which I will also include in the show notes, it serves two, so you'll get two beverages out of this one recipe. Now, of course, if we want to multiply it, you can certainly do that, increasing the ingredients, but you just need to be mindful of the potency. So she has it broken down in this recipe for five milligrams THC per serving, or a high dose of 100 milligrams of THC per serving, which I find is a pretty wide range. I know lots of people who have that type of high dose tolerance. I definitely fall somewhere in the middle, in fact, closer to the low dose range. I can consume 20 to 30 milligrams. If I'm getting to 25, 30 milligrams I'm going to be a little more couch locked, whereas the 10 to 15 milligram I have a nice light buzz that will allow me to still function, if you will, which is one reason why I also enjoy cannabis beverages on the legal market, because at 10 milligrams I do feel those. So I can still get a buzz from them and it works really well for me.
Speaker 1:But that is a pretty wide ranging dose, but she does mention if you are going to be doing if you want to do 10 milligrams per serving, you'll double the amount of low dose cannabis flour. If you want 25 milligrams of THC per serving, you're going to multiply the amount of low dose cannabis flour by five times, and so on and so forth. Again, I'll include that in the show notes. So if you're doing a low dose of cannabis, you'll be infusing your milk with 0.1 grams of cannabis. That's all you need, which is kind of wild because that's really Well. Obviously it's very little cannabis and it just goes to show how little it takes to really get some people buzzed. And the high dose at 100 milligrams is 1.5 grams of flour and because, as we know, for a five milligram THC per serving you'll need a total of 10 milligrams of THC in the entire recipe and that's slightly less than 0.1% of grams of 20% THC cannabis flour. So you may be making some assumptions here if you don't know the actual percentage of your cannabis. So you can play around with that.
Speaker 1:But I do like how she does break it down. I didn't realize further down that she had the ways to personalize the dose and I think that's really smart. So the first step you're going to be doing is infusing your milk with the appropriate amount of THC that will work for you into a two serving recipe. I should also mention that you probably don't want to infuse more than you need, unless you'll be consuming this infused milk within a day or two. It just doesn't really keep like other infusions. Do you know? If you infuse some olive oil or butter, or and think of any other typical infusion, they will have a healthy shelf life. But I find milk just has a much shorter shelf life, and so you're better off just infusing what it is that you need at that time. And now that we know that it only takes 30 minutes, well, that's not such a big problem anymore. Now is it?
Speaker 1:Now, while you're infusing your milk, you can make your brown sugar syrup. Making a brown sugar syrup or simple syrups of any kind are basically just adding sugar and water and perhaps something else on a stove and you stir until the sugar is dissolved and you set it aside to cool. That's essentially what you're doing for this brown sugar syrup Super quick, super easy. And then you're going to brew your tea as well. Super quick, super easy, and then you're going to brew your tea as well. I just boiled some water in a kettle and then took three tea bags. I just infused some tea for a few minutes and then the one thing that you will need to likely go out and buy is your tapioca pearls. And I went to a local Asian grocery store that's been in my town for 30 odd years. It used to be run by the parents. Now the children run it. I bought two different kinds of bubble tea pearls. When I asked, told them what I was looking for the typical black ones that you see most commonly, but they also had some colored ones. So I picked up some of those as well, just because I thought it would be kind of fun. I'm sure I will be making this over the summer.
Speaker 1:You've made your brown sugar syrup brewing your tea, so you have a really nice strong tea and then you're going to be preparing your bubble tea pearls. I will say that in the recipe she's written that it said to just boil them for five minutes. The first time I made this I looked at the package of the bubble tea pearls and it said it had a time that was quite a bit longer. And then I looked at the recipe I thought five minutes. So I thought I would try the five minutes and they turned out very, very chewy. I'm going to kind of eat them anyway. But so the next time I did it according to package instructions. So you probably want to follow the package instructions instead of what is said in this recipe, unless it matches. Matches, because I just found that they were a little undercooked. But the next time I did it and followed the package instructions and they were great.
Speaker 1:And then to put it all together, because at this point you've probably also strained your can of milk, because that only takes 30 minutes. So you'll strain that. And then you do need to let the tea go to room temperature. Ideally you know straight out the tea leaves if you're using loose leaf tea, or take out the tea bags and you want to cool it to room temperature. So you kind of can prepare a lot of this stuff and let it sit while it cools a little bit. And then you're going to take two tall glasses and you're going to pour in the desired amount of boba pearls and brown sugar syrup. You're going to add your ice this is an iced drink and then you add half of the black tea and half of the milk in the glass and stir together and voila.
Speaker 1:And the reason I like this recipe so much is because it is simple to infuse and it's beautiful for a hot day, and at the time of me recording this particular episode, it is hot, it is hot, hot, hot. Summer definitely feels like it has arrived. It's a great warm weather beverage and the bubble tea pearls just make it so much fun. I really enjoy it. Now the one thing I will mention is you can customize it, and you know me, I love something that is customizable Because, think about it, you go into a bubble tea shop and, of course, there's endless options for how you can make the bubble tea your own.
Speaker 1:You can experiment with different teas. My sister mentioned a couple times oolong tea I didn't realize was caffeine free. So if you're looking for a caffeine free version, that might be one direction to go, so you can enjoy this without, you know, lying wide awake at 2am, as I know happens to some people, my sister included. But you could try, you know, a white tea or green tea also, and I'd made it a second time. And I used, instead of the brown sugar syrup, I used a rhubarb simple syrup because rhubarb also happens to be growing in the garden and it grows pretty prolifically here. So I picked some rhubarb and I made a rhubarb simple syrup. So I have that in the fridge now because that does keep.
Speaker 1:The simple syrup itself is mostly water and sugar. With the simple, with the rhubarb simple syrup, it's basically the same thing. You just add sugar, water and rhubarb, you let it break down and then you strain the rhubarb, the plant material, out, just like you'd be doing an infusion, and of course, you can still consume the rhubarb pulp, but the simple syrup itself is just liquid. So I tried that again with this recipe, or using this recipe as a base, and then use the rhubarb simple syrup, and it was really lovely. The rhubarb simple syrup actually didn't come through as strongly, if you will, and I found it was a little less sweet than the brown sugar syrup. But you can probably try a whole bunch of different things. Whatever you happen to have on hand. Just follow the base instructions and I think you'll be good to go and it's a really fun hot weather recipe that you can make again and again and tailor it to your own tastes and preferences, which is the one thing I love about any kind of recipe.
Speaker 1:I just want to say thanks again to Christina for this lovely recipe, as always. You can infuse this with THC, but if you're so inclined and you want something that's a CBD non-psychoactive relaxing option as well, you do you. That is what making your own edibles is all about. You're taking control of your high life, so I hope you give it a try. Are you familiar with bubble tea? Have you had it before? Let me know. I would love to hear it. You can always let me know over at bitemepodcastcom. There are comments allowed on the posts that I create over there. And, of course, join Bite Me to find out how to join the Bite Me Cannabis Club. I would love to have you over there as well.
Speaker 1:Now I do have some fun episodes coming up as well that you can look forward to. One is I will be interviewing very soon Steve Stacey, author of Death by Cannabis and Death by Cannabis the Re-Up, a couple of books that he published. It's a murder mystery in a grow-up and they are such a fun read, so I'm really excited about having him on the show. I have an episode with Angelina Blessed coming out very soon. She's a Canadian retired Muay Thai fighter edibles maker and I have been playing around with infused poutine, which is very Canadian.
Speaker 1:It's about time that I did it, but it was a lot of fun playing around with that. I'll be working with it a little bit more because the first time I made it the cheese wasn't squeaky enough. And if you know anything about cheese curds, if you know, you know cheese curds are an essential ingredient of that particular recipe and the cheese curds I had they just they're supposed to be squeaky. Those are some episodes that I have coming up. If there are any recipes that you'd love to see on the show or guests that you would like me to interview, let me know. I would love to try and make your dreams come true. So until next time, my friends, I'm your host, margaret.
