Memorial Day weekend is here and it's official. Summer is here! It's only been this last week that it FEELS to me like summer is anywhere nearby. Maybe this has to do with the fact that while out and about the evening of MAY 3RD, I wore a SKI PARKA. At any rate, this last week has finally found me turning on the central air, planning, buying and planting the annuals in my summer flower pots for around the house and getting my hands dirty in the raised beds of my vegetable and herb gardens.
Now, I'm a year-round lover of iced tea (Luzianne tea bags, heavy on the sugar, please). I prefer it to soda and always have a pitcher in the fridge. Summer comes and I can't keep the pitcher full. While I was grocery shopping the other day with the kids, I saw that our friends at Kroger had the glass sun tea jars I remember my mom and grandma sitting out in the sun each year. I had to have one! And this morning, its maiden voyage on my deck:
It couldn't be easier to make. Just fill the jar with tap/filtered water (NOT boiling!!!), 4-6 tea bags and sugar (I like my tea to be like hummingbird food, so I use 2 cups...don't judge me ;-P). Allow the jar to sit in the sun until the tea is brewed to your preferred strength then bring the jar in and pop it in the fridge or on your kitchen counter. Serve over ice with a nice slice of lemon.
WELCOME SUMMER!!!!
