It's My Life

Oh it is summer time! The weather is hot and the drinks are COLD! Even my coffee goes cold when the tempature surpasses 90 degrees.  Last summer The Pioneer Woman changed my life with one single blog post,  The Perfect Iced Coffee .  Prior to this I was spending a fortune on iced coffee's from coffee venders. Or wasting my time making waterdown versions with traditional  brewed coffee {The ice melts as soon as hot coffee is poured over it, therefore diluting the coffee and not getting the right flavor}. Oh how I hate love the Pioneer Woman! Her food is divine. Her desserts rock my world. And her ice coffee made me sing! But the calories!   Everything she makes is full of them! I guess running around the farm she is able to burn off those calories and maintain her figure. I found her iced coffee to be a little cu mbersome to make. I did not have a tub large enough to soak. The straining process left me messy. And while I found adding sweetened conse...

Have you ever done something you knew you shouldn't? I am doing it right now.  And I know I am going to pay for it later! But, I am still doing it. Why? Because it is so yummy!! I learned to make the best iced coffee today and I have to tell you I am in HEAVEN! Ree Drummond, aka The Pioneer Woman posted an article on her blog about how to make the perfect iced coffee. I love iced coffee, but I could never get it right. I would brew the coffee, pour it over ice, and it would melt the ice. I could never get it cold enough without watering it all down.  Ree's article shows a cold brew method of making the coffee, that works great for putting it over ice. I brewed some cold coffee this morning and I knew I should have stopped at one iced tea today, but then I had a second. But, now that my housework is done, I am ready for the week, and swimming with the family is over, I am sneaking in  a third one! You can find this tutorial at The Pioneer Woman,  Iced Coff...