Iced Tea Tales......



My Simple, Refreshing, Healthful Glass of Iced Green Tea

 I don't know about you, but iced tea is a way of life around here.  In fact, ever since I was a kid, iced tea has been the potion of choice for meals and just sippin' between meals.

Two Green Tea Bags Are the Perfect Amount.  Just Tear Them Open and Empty Into Filter

Today, and for the past few years, I have settled on green tea as my standard drink.  My current taste in tea has been a part of a lifelong evolution.  When I was a youngster, I drank black tea that was heavily sugared.  Then, I started to add lemon to that.  After a few years, I got hooked on flavored tea---stuff like strawberry or raspberry.

Two Tea Bags in the Filter.  Perfect!

Then, older now and wiser, I got into a comfortable rut drinking unsugared black tea.  Now, I drink iced green tea with or without lemon---but never sweetened.

The Carafe Cools on the Patio Table

For one thing, green tea is supposed to be loaded with antioxidants, much more so than black tea.  Plus, to be honest with you, there is only a subtle taste difference between the two.  So, at our house today, I drink green tea exclusively out of my own container from the fridge, and Cindy drinks either black or white or some Godforsaken artificially flavored concoction, whatever her taste happens to be that day (she obviously has not matured in her tea taste as I have, but some day I am hopeful she will see the light and "go green").  She has her container and I have mine.

Cindy Currently is Drinking White Tea.  But Sometimes it is Black Tea.  Sometimes it is Flavored.  Who Can Say On Any Given Day?  She Adds Sugar, Splenda, Lemon, etc...

We make our tea as needed in an old coffee maker.  Put in a filter just as we would for coffee, then we take two tea bags of our tea of choice and tear them open and empty into the filter.  After brewing, the tea must be cooled down (cooling down is fast in the winter---we simply put the carafe outside in the cool air for an hour or so).

My Container (right) Holds Two Carafes of Tea and lasts Me About 4 Days.  It Holds Twice as Much as Cindy's Container, Which, as You Can See, is Empty Again.  Ha.

My tea container holds two full carafes of tea.  This means I only have to make tea for myself about once every 4---5 days.  Cindy's container is half the size of mine. 

You can drink tea hot or cold, with or without sugar or splenda or lemon, but tea is a drink that has been around for centuries, and is consumed all around the world.  Excuse me---gotta go now......it's tea time.