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
Keep in mind that with Teavana you can ask them to blend several teas for a totally individual …read more

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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I like watching Paula Deen.  Actually, I should say that I enjoyed watching her the one time I saw her on cable.
When the kids all chipped in and sent Marc and I on a romantic getaway over night they got us a hotel that had cable…so….HGTV and Food Network were part of the itinerary.  I head read Paula Deen often but not watched her and she just reminds me of so many of the southern women in our age group (ahem) that I know. 

 
I can’t claim any one state as home really.  We moved a lot when I was growing up, Michigan to Texas to Pennsylvania to New Jersey to Texas to Florida to Texas….and it didn’t get any better when I joined the Army..Nor did it settle down when I met Marc and married him because although I was out of the military he was in the Marines.
I am told I don’t have much of an accent that anyone can pinpoint and  I don’t have a lot of things that I do that make people point at me and say, “AHA! Texas..AHA! …read more