You know those days that are long and tiring and all you want to do is lie in the sun and warm up and feel lovely?
Well I had one of those days. Unfortunately for me, being able to laze in the sun is still months away.
It’s -35 C today and that’s before the wind chill. I believe that is termed a FAIL.
I was not going to be deterred — I still wanted a taste of summer, in order to preserve what precious little is left of my sanity.
So I made iced tea and not with a creepy powder mix that is only good for camping … and making you sneeze. (If you don’t know what I am talking about shake the powder container, then take off the lid and inhale — your nose doesn’t even have to be over top.)
The nice part about making ice tea from scratch, along with it tasting better, is that boiling water adds humidity to the apartment. So for the briefest of minutes I can feel like I am in a tropical location instead of freezing to death in the middle of winter, with ridiculously and incurably dry skin. (But, it’s a
dry cold.)
So with almost a litre and a half of boiling water, three bags of delicious-smelling, fair-trade, black tea, enough honey to sweeten it and a small container of mandarin orange segments for added flavour, I created a bit of summer.
It lasted until I looked back outside.
Now I’m trying to figure out the perfect alcohol to put in it, might as well get warm somehow.
how about making it a long island iced tea!? Or go with Grand Marnier to make it a little more fancy 🙂
Not a bad plan, although I was thinking along the lines of limoncello, do you think that would work?