I love sweet tea but sometimes it is nice to drink something a little different.
White tea has a delicate flavor and when mixed with fruit it really adds a nice dimension. The mint and lime flavors are cooling and refreshing as well.  Although key limes are preferred you can use regular lime if you can’t find them.
If you are looking for a refreshing drink to serve for your Fourth of July celebration check this out.
Lime, and Mint Iced Tea

1 quart of water
4 white tea bags
1  1/2 cups fresh mint leaves
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup key lime juice
Lime slices for garnish

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One of the things that they make at the Landmark restaurant in Dallas is a fruit lemonade. The flavor changes daily; watermelon, honeydew…. The drinks are so refreshing, so good, and so unique that of course I wanted to be able to replicate them at home. Since it is lemonade I knew there would be lemon juice..but you know me..I wanted to take it a step further.

White tea. Adding the tea gives the flavor another depth and it is really good. White tea is very delicate so it doesn’t overpower the flavor of the fruit, in this case honeydew.
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Today, June 10th, is Iced Tea Day.  I am so glad because it is hot, muggy, sticky, and blah and a cold glass of tea sounds awesome.
There are a lot of ways to make iced tea, or sweet tea as we call it. In fact, by using some of the herbal and fruit blends you can make a healthier option for your kool aid kids.  The Acai berry tea that I reviewed yesterday is a good example, but there are thousands more.

Teavana
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Yep.  The temperatures have officially hit over the 80 degree mark here in Texas (more than once) and it is now officially sweet tea season.  Get your glucose meters out.

I did not grow in up the south. We moved to Texas when I was about 10 or 11, but by the time I was 16 I recognized that sweet tea was an institution that was taken as seriously as football in this area.  Not everyone could make it right. My mom, for example, bless her Midwestern heart, bought presweetened instant tea with lemon.  God rest her soul.
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Nope, this is not a new recipes.
Apparently, according to doctors iced tea is one of the causes of kidney stones in people that are prone to getting them. It seems that tea contains oxalate which is a key chemical that produces kidney stones when coupled with dehydration and poor dietary habits.

There is, as far as I am concerned only one way to make iced tea and that is good old southern sweet tea. An iced tea by any other name just tastes…nasty.
But once you have reached the perfect tea you can do all kinds of amazing things with it! This is a light and refreshing summer drink that begins with a perfect half gallon of sweet tea.

 
I was looking through the tea melange in the pantry on friday. I wanted iced tea that was flavored but different. Sometimes we get into an iced tea rut in the summer. Peach tea, raspberry tea, orange or lemon…you know how it is. God forbid that someone would think that we were boring and predictable around here.