Tea

I love tea. It is probably my favorite beverage. My most favorite way to drink it is sweetened with sugar and a little lemon. I almost never drink sugar sweetened tea anymore. I drink water almost exclusively. Sometimes I'll drink tea with splenda and lemon with my evening meal. Since I am once again trying to give up all artificial sweeteners, and tea just isn't the same unless it is sweet, I'm looking once again for an option.

I thought I'd found heaven with agave nectar until I learned that what we buy in the store isn't the same as what is touted as the sweetening panacea I'd thought.

Over the weekend, I decided to try my new favorite - honey. I've had hot tea with honey and lemon as a winter time treat, so why not in iced tea? Buoyed by my success with the apples, I forged ahead. I put honey in with the tea while it was warm from brewing. I added some lemon and poured it over ice. I eagerly took a drink anticipating another home run with the honey. It wasn't a home run. It wasn't even a base hit. It was a strike!

Honey in cold tea really does not work for me. That unique taste that it added to the apples doesn't work in cold tea. I drank it because I didn't want to be wasteful and it wasn't so horrible that I couldn't swallow it. I won't be making it again. Live and learn. :)