Delicious Hot Tea -- Just in Time for Cozy Weather

On my Bear River Photo Greetings blog (and on this one, I just realized), I posted about getting to go to my very first "tea party". Along with that post, I showcased some of the delicious looking teas that can be found on Etsy.com. One of the shop owners, of Ann-Margaret's Tea Shoppe, sent me a whole slew of flavored, loose-leaf teas to try, and I am beginning to work my way through them, now that we FINALLY have some cold weather here in California.

I started with the Green Apple MarTeani, which is a green tea, and is SUPER YUMMY! Since I try to stay away from sugar in my drinks, I used Splenda (would the queen shudder if she knew?). This tea really tastes Green Apple-y! This would be awesome as an iced tea, as would my next choice: Angel Falls Mist Herbal Tea. I'm thinking this tea has a bit of a peach and berry flavor to it, and is absolutely delightful as a hot tea! I'm not much on bitter, dark tasting drinks (like coffee), so I really enjoyed both of these light, but very flavorful teas. By the way, I have never used a tea ball before, but I think it's pretty neat! I feel a little more sophisticated and grown up now.

Be sure to check out Ann-Margaret's Etsy shop, and if she doesn't have the flavors I mentioned, send her a convo to see if she might have any available. You will NOT be sorry!

Have a blessed day in Christ!

Mama Bear

Reviewing Ice Cream? Absolutely!

Around our house, we LOVE ice cream. Yesterday, Papa Bear brought home a new kind of ice cream....Blueberry Pomegranate Sugar Cone Ice Cream from Sunnyside Farms. It's described on the carton as "Vanilla Ice Cream Sprinkled with Milk Chocolate Covered Artificially Flavored Sugar Cone and Laced with Pomegranate Blueberry Ripple". It's a very creamy vanilla ice cream with just a light ripple of the pomegranate and blueberry. We tasted more of the blueberry than the pomegranate. The sugar cone was amazing! Just like if you got a chocolate dipped waffle cone from Cold Stone Creamery. So yummy! I mean, pretty much any ice cream with chocolate covered something in it is good in my book!

Papa Bear's Verdict: Oh! It was goodlicious! I really like the crumpled up sugar cone in it. That was a good idea!

Mama Bear's Verdict: Pretty yummy! I like the chocolate covered sugar cone. The only thing that I would like to see different is having a bit more of the "ripple" in it. There's not a whole lot of ripple. Maybe it's just this batch, but I would have loved to have tasted more fruit...especially the pomegranate. Not to where it would overpower it or anything, but there was really not a lot of ripple...I'm not exaggerating.

(Brother Bear was sick, and therefore not able to give his verdict.)

Will we purchase this flavor again? Most definitely.

Mama Bear