PRODUCT: Make Infused Water

If you enjoy fruit-flavored water, you can make it at home, saving money and the environment (those plastic bottles pile up in landfill forever). Several companies make products that make it easy to create infused water. Bodum’s Ceylon Tea Pitcher is an acrylic pitcher with a filter that was originally designed to brew tea. We…
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RECIPE: Peach Raspberry Lemonade

Turn ripe peaches into peach lemonade.Photo by Gerhard Taatgen Jr. | SXC.   We’re on a lemonade kick. Yesterday we came back from the farmers market with ripe peaches and made a delicious pitcher of Peach Raspberry Lemonade. Per person, you’ll need: Ingredients 2 tablespoons peach purée 4 raspberries 1 tablespoon fresh-squeezed lemon juice (use…
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PRODUCT: New Leaf Bottled Lemonade

We celebrated National Lemonade yesterday by trying the flavors of New Leaf Lemonade. The company makes bottled tea, lemonade and a lemonade-tea mix with an emphasis on all-natural flavors. The sweetener is organic cane sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup. The 17 New Leaf options include four lemonades: Black Cherry, Homemade (Original), Strawberry and…
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PRODUCT: Environmentally Friendly Tea

Buy refill bags instead of new canisters. Photo courtesy TayTea.com. Quite a few specialty tea companies package their fine teas in metal canisters, helping to extend the vibrancy of the tea by keeping out air and light. The problem is, if you’re a regular tea drinker, you can end up with quite a lot of…
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PRODUCT: Cucumber Soda

Perhaps you‘ve had a glass of cucumber water, one of our favorite infusions. Just toss cucumber slices into a pitcher of water and let it infuse for an hour. Now, meet Mr. Q. Cumber, a sparkling cucumber beverage. Think of it as sweet, sparkling cucumber water. Cucumber is actually a fruit—the botanical relative of a…
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