Anything you can do to keep cool in the summer is a good thing.
I found a new (to me) sun tea jar at a thrift store, so I have been making decaffeinated sun tea. Just tap water and tea bags in my jar - along with the hot summer sun - are all I need to make it.
I don't want my iced tea to get diluted so I freeze some of the tea in our vintage aluminum ice cube tray that's been here in the house for nearly sixty years, put the cubes in the freezer in a plastic bag, and they are at the ready when I need them.
It's a Frigidaire....
"Quickube"
I use Lipton Tea, and sometimes I make green tea and sometimes black tea. I sweeten it with Truvia, and that's my version of Sweet Tea - with zero calories.
Very refreshing!
And when we just plain do not feel like anything hot for dinner, I will sometimes just fix us some nice big salads.
I made these salads not long ago - one for my husband with some leftover grilled steak that was in the fridge, red onion, goat cheese, tomatoes:
And for mine I used up some grilled chicken that was leftover from the night BEFORE the grilled steak, goat cheese, and my favorite little tomatoes from the farmer's market:
I do not make my own salad dressing very often (we have a few store-bought favorites that we tend to use all of the time), but I couldn't resist these great vintage salad dressing bottles when I saw them at the thrift store:
Keep cool, people, keep cool.
(If you possibly can - we are finding it rather difficult, here lately.....)
It is somewhat cooler up here in Gold Run Washington, we are right on the river and look out on two tall mountains which are very close. I have been having oil and vinegar dressing. LOL. Love T
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