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Twinings Green Tea With Mint: Refreshingly Delicious!

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Twinings Mint Green Tea

I’m not sure why, but when it came to tea  I was slow when it came to jumping on the mint bandwagon. I’ve always grown mint in my herb garden and am obsessed with the smell, but the thought of flavoring food or drinks with it never seemed like an attractive idea.  I’d read raving reviews about mint tea and pretty much shake my head wondering, “How could people even do that?!”

Now I know – because the results are breathtaking!

One of my favorite new teas I’ve tried is Green Tea with Mint from Twinings.  This tea is extraordinary.   You can always judge how wonderful a tea is by how fast it disappears from our tea shelf.  This one may have broken a record. I bought a box on a Saturday and by Wednesday it was completely gone.

Suffice to say I love, love, love this tea.

I’ve probably mentioned this before, but when doing a review (whether it’s one of my Kentucky restaurant reviews, food blog reviews, book reviews, or tea reviews), I pay particularly close attention to the first words that come to mind.  After one sip of Twinings Mint Green Tea, the first three words that came to mind were refreshing, delicious, and wow.  Wow’s always good.

The second thing I thought was that I should have bought 2 boxes instead of just 1. I knew this one wasn’t going to last long.

If you can’t find Twinings Cold Brewed Iced Tea Green Tea with Mint in your favorite store, click the link and order a box from Amazon.

Better make that 2 boxes….

Boston Tea Company’s Delightful Coconut Joy Black Tea

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A few things I’m loving right now: AMC’s “The Walking Dead”. Olive Garden. The Hunger Games. Zombie video games. My Green Bay Packers. Tim Tebow. Oh yeah, something else I’m enjoying the heck out of? Boston Tea Company. Because my two favorite teas right now are both from their company (Mint Chocolate Delight Green Tea and Coconut Joy Black Tea).

I’ve already reviewed the Mint Chocolate Tea, and now I have the honor of reviewing their Coconut Tea. As you can see from the images above, it’s a beautiful, beautiful thing. The smell alone makes this tea worth drinking – honestly, it smells like a wonderful, edible sort of suntan lotion or dessert. The taste won’t let you down either. The coconut taste is noticeable, but you never forget that this is indeed a black tea. The ingredients are Ceylon Black Tea, pieces of coconut, and natural coconut flavorings. I use boiling water (or right about to boil), and I let the leaves steep for 4-6 minutes for the best flavor. The leaves do infuse a very strong taste, so for a 8 oz. mug, I don’t use more than a teaspoon of the loose leaves.

If you’ve ever read a review of mine, you know that I pretty much always prefer hot tea to iced tea. However, this tea is one of the FEW that is honestly every bit as good iced as it is hot. Seriously, it’s good iced.

I have nothing bad to say about this tea: the aftertaste, the smell, the leaves, the taste – it’s all amazing. Awesome job, Boston Tea Company. Very happy tea drinker here. 🙂

Welcome Summer with These Beautiful Iced Tea Glasses

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Tea Glasses

 
You’re ready for summer, I’m ready for summer… but most importantly, these gorgeous Tea Glasses are ready for summer. Lots of summer.

I was thinking the other day (promise) and tea is one of the few drinks or foods, for that matter, that adapt to the weather so beautifully and effortlessly. If it’s hot outside, nothing… absolutely nothing… in the world is as Heavenly as a tall glass of iced tea.

When the weather’s cold, hot tea will warm you from your head to your toes. Tea’s so adaptable, it’ll even conform to fit the time of day. In the morning, it’ll serve as your wake up call with glorious, life-giving caffeine. In the evening, ask it to come to your cup sans its caffeine and it’ll bring your day to a beautiful, peaceful close.

Is it any wonder we love it so?

I made my own version of Red Lobster’s Boston Iced Tea yesterday (I’ll share the details in the next post), and I’m just picturing how beautiful it’d look in one of the tea glasses above.

To take a closer look at the ridiculously beautiful Tea Glasses shown above, click the link.  These are drop dead gorgeous.

Red Lobster’s Boston Iced Tea

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I celebrated National Iced Tea Day (June 10th) with iced tea all day, but I ended my day at Red Lobster with two glasses of their Boston Iced Tea. I had never tried it, but I enjoyed it a lot. It’s tea mixed with cranberry juice, with half of an orange on the side of the glass. The cranberry taste almost overwhelms the taste of the tea, but it was still a treat. I also liked that I didn’t have to pay for a refill – several restaurants where I’ve gotten “special drinks” like this charge you a whole separate drink when you get a refill, but our server happily assured me that my refills would be free. I hope the rest of you had a great “holiday” as well!