Tea TiMe

I love to drink hot tea.  It is probably my favorite thing to drink ... and I'll drink it at any time.  It is very soothing, calming, relaxing.  I especially like a tea called chai tea that my mother got me drinking years ago. 

She used to make it homemade ... and I think I may begin doing that myself because it is so hard to find a good one.

I have, with the help of my taste-testers (my twin nieces), found one or two that are better than the rest. 

The good thing about chai, as I found out all those years ago, is that it is good both HOT and COLD.  Just a little bit of milk, a little bit of sweetener ... and yum!!

This brand is good - the chai white tea and the vanilla chai.  I have not tried this with the vanilla chai yet.

Three packets is all I need ... boil the water, take it off the heat and place the tea bags in.  Something I have learned over the years - wait until the bubbles are gone before adding the tea bags so that the water's not too hot. I keep the tea bags in for about 5 minutes - no more.  Pour some cold water into a pitcher, then pour the tea into it, then finish with some more cold water until the pitcher is full.

This is all you need ... the brewed tea, a glass, 1/2 cup of milk and sweetener.  We use lactose free fat free milk because my mother has some issues with lactose and, due to her diabetes, she can't drink soy milk.  I also like my chai tea sweet so I use four sweeteners in a big glass like I have here.

Pour it all in, stir it up and enjoy!!  Yum!!