Beverages

Strawberry Lemon-Limeade

May 10, 2011

Yesterday was the first really warm day we’ve had this spring. 88 degrees. Pretty warm. Not hot, but still a taste of what’s in store for summer. After working all day, doing four loads of laundry and cooking dinner, I just wanted a tall glass of something refreshing. Something I could enjoy while we watched Dancing with the Stars, [...]

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Southern Sweet Tea

August 30, 2010

Ahh, sweet tea. Nectar to a Southerner and as essential to our cuisine as fat back and turnip greens. As Dolly Parton famously said in Steel Magnolias – “Sweet Tea! House wine of the South!” And it is. I can’t remember a single day of my life when there was not a pitcher of sweet tea in [...]

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Spiced Tea (a.k.a. Russian Tea)

March 8, 2010

You might not think that growing up as I did in a tiny, rural south Georgia town in the 50’s and 60’s would provide a person with many social opportunities. That assumption would be so wrong! I believe we probably had more social events back then than people have these days. And the most important social [...]

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