Drinks

I love this time of year because the weather is just starting to get warm and the flowers are just starting to bloom. Spring is a great time of year to try new recipes using flowers like this recipe for easy dandelion iced tea.   You might wonder why in the world you would want…

I have been trying a lot of new dandelion recipes this year, like this easy recipe for dandelion lemonade. I finally have my husband convinced that it isn’t really necessary to kill all of the dandelions in our lawn.   It turns out that honey bees love dandelions. Dandelions are one of the first flowers…

I’m not a big coffee drinker. In fact, I only drink decaffeinated coffee! But I do enjoy a good cup of coffee now and then. In the interest of saving money, I decided to look around and see what I could find for homemade coffee creamers, and this homemade French vanilla creamer is definitely a…

I first tasted kombucha a couple of years ago. I was skeptical about it at first, but wanted to see what all the hype was about. I was surprised how sour it was, almost like drinking vinegar! But after I gave it a couple of tries, it started to grow on me. I decided to…

Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup   There are several recipes for homemade Hershey’s chocolate syrup floating around on the Internet. Some of them said that they turned out runnier then the store-bought version, so I kept looking for a recipe that would result in a comparable if not better version of the store bought favorite.   Have…