Zingy Ice Tea

My friend Jake introduced me to his modified version of Ina Garten's red zinger ice tea. Now I am a full convert!

Steep eight bags of red zinger tea and 4 bags of lemon zinger tea with 32 oz of hot water. Steep for ten minutes.

Add 32 oz. of white grape juice. Add ice and put in the fridge.

Yummy Zingy Ice tea. good alone or mixed with Gin or Champagne. It is a crowd pleaser- ahve pleanty on hand for your next party.

More Holiday Fun!

The After Party

The after party is supposed to be better than the actual party. However, if you are the party thrower, the after party entails cleaning up the mess you made to make the party happen. Usually what happens is that I get so exhausted making the party that once every one leave it takes everything out of me just to cover all the left overs up. ( which no one ever takes home- leaving me with more food than I know what to do with)

Dirty Dishes and massive amounts of leftovers. ( anyone wanna help decorate some extra cookies?)

Decorating FUN!

Even though I am 27 years old, I still love decorating holiday cookies. The icing, the glitter, the gold and silver balls. It is all so much fun. And then there are all the cute shapes you can make cookies into.

Yesterday I had a cookie decorating party. I was lucky-- my friend Ali agreed to do the task of rolling out the ginger bread and butter cookie dough, cutting the shapes and baking them. She even brought mixed and colored icing to deccorate with!

Ali brought doves, camels, cats, dinasaurs, and bells. Nothing like decorating a camel and a gingerbread couple to get you in the holiday mood- a soundtrack of Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson holiday music also helped.