sweet tea

Today I went longboarding with my friend Nate. When we got back to my house, I opened the fridge to find a drink, only to find five pitchers of sweet tea. That's right, I said FIVE. Now let me explain. My family is extremely into sweet tea, except everyone prefers a slightly different recipe. In my fridge right now their are two pitchers of regular sweet tea, two pitchers of sweet tea with lemon, and one pitcher (for my dad) of unsweetened with a hint of green tea. It's moments like this when I'm truly proud to be a part of my family.

I am personally a fan of the sweetened tea with lemon. I suppose it's because I grew up on that stuff. Here is the recipe for anyone desiring to taste perfection:

Boil water in a pot. Put 1.5 cups of sugar in a gallon pitcher. When water is boiling, pour into pitcher with sugar. Stir thoroughly, then quickly adding in 1 Lipton gallon size tea bag. Cover pitcher immediately and let sit for 30 minutes. Then remove tea bag, fill up the remainder of the pitcher with cold water and add lemon.

I'm telling you...this is the way to go :)