TIP OF THE DAY: Homemade Lemonade Recipe

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade! Why purchase bottled lemonade or mixes, when it’s so easy to make better-tasting homemade lemonade from fresh-squeezed lemons? The difference is night and day. This recipe makes fifteen 8-ounce glasses of fresh lemonade. You can adjust the sweetening to your own taste. For a zero-calorie drink, use non-caloric…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Storing Tea

Zhena’s Gypsy Tea is perfectly packaged in a metal container with an airtight lid. Photo by Hannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE. June is National Tea Month—drink those antioxidants up! Tea is a fragile product: oxygen, humidity (moisture), heat, light and other aromas are its enemies. They cause the tea to go stale (lose its flavor)…
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PRODUCT: MaryAnna’s Sweet Tea

Everyone in the South knows about sweet tea, but it’s lesser known in other regions. Sometimes non-Southerners will come across “Southern-style tea” or “extra-sweet tea”—which is the same thing. If you favor adding three or more sugars to your tea, this is the iced tea for you. The extra sweetness comes from adding a generous…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Ice Cream Float (a.k.a. Ice Cream Soda)

On the first day of summer, we’re thinking ice cream—and specifically, ice cream floats. You may have added a scoop of vanilla ice cream into root beer or chocolate soda. But exciting new combinations await: The “creamsicle,” orange soda with vanilla ice cream The “chocolate cherry,” cherry soda with chocolate ice cream The “peach melba,”…
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RECIPE: Meet Your Matcha With A Green Tea Latte

With matcha tea, it is easy being green (photo © l’’Âge de Thé) Green tea latte (matcha latte), a favorite coffee bar drink, is easy to make at home. Enjoy it hot or cold. Matcha is a powder of finely ground green tea leaves. It has a vibrant green color due to the high concentration…
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