{"id":1424,"date":"2009-09-13T11:38:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T11:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2009-09-13T11:38:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T11:38:16","slug":"iced_tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1424","title":{"rendered":"iced tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-2N8I7447.JPG\" alt=\"iced tea\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nOne of the first drinks that I started to make was iced tea.  The amount of sugar in Coke\/Pepsi was getting to be too much for me.  So I started to look for an alternative.  Iced tea sweetened with some lemon juice and agave nectar did the trick.  I like the convenience of Celestial Seasonings tea bags.  And I found four flavors that I liked at HEB (Mandarin Orange Spice, Black Cherry Berry, Raspberry Zinger, and Wild Berry Zinger).  Unfortunately, once I find something that I like, stores stop carrying them.  Luckily for me, Amazon does carry those flavors.  So I buy a case of each and it lasts me for about a year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is not that hard to make.  I fill by teapot full of water and bring it to a boil.  I then take eight bags of tea and steep them in the water for 6 minutes (actually, you can forget about them and let them steep longer than that without any harm).  While the water is coming up to a boil and\/or steeping in the tea, I squeeze the juice of three lemons into a clean 64 ounce plastic container.  I then pour in 100 grams of organic raw blue agave nectar.  I fill the bottle about half way with cold water and wait for the tea to finish steeping.  When it is done, I port the tea in and fill it up to the top with cold water and place it in the refrigerator for when I need it (and for it to chill back down).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA hundred grams of agave sweetener in a 64 ounce bottle works out to be 36 calories per 8 ounce serving (10 grams of carbohydrates).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first drinks that I started to make was iced tea. The amount of sugar in Coke\/Pepsi was getting to be too much for me. So I started to look for an alternative. Iced tea sweetened with some lemon juice and agave nectar did the trick. I like the convenience of Celestial Seasonings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}