This evening I had my mom & dad for dinner to celebrate Dad's birthday, which happens to be this coming Tuesday. He had a couple of requests, most of which were low carb due to his diabetes. He is very careful with his diet & exercise, so his blood sugars are doing great as a result. So...we had a great meal of broiled top sirloin steaks that I got at Alwan Brothers (very nice local meat market), sauted asparagus with fresh garlic, a low-carb broccoli cheese dish, & a tossed salad with almonds & strawberries. I reserved the carbs for dessert...homemade butter pecan ice cream! It was a rare treat that we all thoroughly enjoyed. It was also a good way to try out the ice cream maker mom handed down to me recently.
Oh, another thing...I have an automatic iced tea maker & use it a lot in the summer. Our family likes our tea sweet, so I use only Splenda or Truvia. I find a lot of people only drink tea unsweetened. The preference seems to run in families. I guess it depends how your mom served it? My Grandma Steffen always served super-super sweet mint tea, with real sugar of course. She'd serve it in those neat old multicolored aluminum glasses which kept it ice cold. Yum.
I wonder - how do the rest of you Klopfenstein's take your tea?
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I love a sweet iced tea but don't like the calories of sugar so I go for artificial sweetener. I recently found a Skinny Girl agave sweetener which I like.
When I do order a tea at Chick-Fil-A, I order it "sweet tea with enough unsweetened so I don't feel guilty." That really throws the teenage boys at the counter!
And how nice of you to cook a great meal for your dad! Happy Birthday, Cleve.
In order to reduce calories, we usually do a "half & half" order or go totally unsweetened.
Yes, it was a fabulously delicious birthday meal. Thanks Crystal!
Of course, I was very happy to reward her by hanging a wall decoration for her, spraying her hostas with deer repellent, and taking her car in for an oil change tomorrow.
Re Cleve's comment: He sure sounds like a good papa. Must be in the genes because I know another good papa,even at the ripe age of an octogenarian.
Re tea: Not fussy as long as the tea is not sugar water.
What a great meal! Happy birthday, Cleve!
On moving to Anderson, even from just up the road in Greenville, it was a surprise to discover just how seriously sweet people here love their tea. A neighbor gave me a glass of tea as we sat on her patio, and it was so sweet I felt like it was drinking syrup. She put two cups of sugar in a gallon of tea!
I make tea using a half cup of sugar and a tablespoon of Sweet and Low per gallon. It works great - it is sweet enough, with just enough sugar to cover up the Sweet and Low taste.
**Previous comment would probably be better stated "It was a surprise to discover just how seriously people here love their sweet tea."
Well, Ann, I'm sure all your neighbors are seriously sweet people, anyway. Ha!
And I am a die-hard Diet Coke fan. Don't mess much with iced tea.
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