On the third day of Christmas….
By Danny on Dec 9 Filed In Food & Beverage, Sweet Contests 19 Comments
It’s day three of our 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! Congratulations to Helen for winning the prize for day two! Granny will be tossing some tea down your chimney soon!
Day three…..
On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…
THREE brand new flavors!
This year we released 3 new flavors, Citrus Green Tea, Lemon Iced Tea, and Diet Citrus Green Tea. Tell us what makes one of these new flavors (or flavor) hit the spot for you. Our favorite response in the comment box below gets a special treat from Granny, and this year it won’t be a lump of coal. Check back tomorrow to see who won and enter to win another prize. Remember, if you don’t win today, there is always tomorrow!
Summertime #TeaSnacky: Panzanella with Sliced Beef Sirloin
By April on Jun 24 Filed In Food & Beverage, recipes, teasnacky 2 Comments
I decided that I needed to get back on the “eat right train” that I’ve been on until the last 6 months or so and what better time to do it than in the summer when it’s just too hot to want to eat your standard comfort food fare. Insert brainiac idea to make myself a tasty bread salad with sliced sirloin on top. Don’t worry about what drink to pair it with, just grab a bottle of sparkling water and your favorite flavor of Sweet Leaf Tea, (Citrus, Half & Half, or Mint & Honey perhaps?) and mix it up. Curious about the exact ratio? Here’s my best guess: 3/4 tea to 1/4 water-ish, but feel free to experiment and comment on what the best ratio is. You could also add some fruit juice to really make it exciting!
Anyways, for my super-easy panzanella (meant to be made with day-old bread and fresh veggies), I cheated and bought some of what I needed off of the Whole Foods Market salad bar and bought bread, that became a couple of days old by the time I used it. I like a variety of tasty stuff on my salad, so I grabbed a variety of veggies (b-b-b-beets, shredded carrots, shredded zucchini, local cherry tomatoes, diced red bell pepper, black olives, artichoke hearts, mixed heirloom lettuce, spinach and cucumbers), fresh mozzarella (the Specialty Team Members at the Lamar store make some INCREDIBLE cheese), sharp cheddar, Black Forest bacon (get it from the meat counter, you’ll be glad you did), part of a crusty baguette, a balsamic dressing and a succulent petite sirloin and threw it all into a bowl and tossed.
All that's missing is the sirloin!
Black Forest bacon in mah oven
I think it’d be cool to see what YOU end up throwing in your panzanella salad. Make your own dressing, use veggies from your own garden, the sky is the limit and we can’t wait to see what you come up with!
**Below you’ll find a recipe from Alton Brown that will get your culinary creative juices flowing.**
Alton Brown’s Panzanella Salad
Ingredients
- 4 cups French bread cut into 1-inch cubes and dried overnight
- 6 slices bacon, cooked, chopped, drippings reserved
- 2 cups halved grape tomatoes
- 2 tablespoons oil, for searing
- 2 cups halved yellow pear tomatoes or roughly chopped heirloom tomatoes
- 2 cups chopped romaine lettuce
Vinaigrette:
- 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon chiffonade mint
- 1 tablespoon chiffonade basil
Directions
Toss bread cubes in the bacon drippings. Sear the halved grape tomatoes in 2 tablespoons of oil, cut side down, until caramelized about 5 minutes, set aside.
Combine red wine vinegar, salt and pepper in a bowl, slowly whisk in olive oil in a thin stream until emulsified.
Combine all tomatoes, bread, bacon, and lettuce and dress with vinaigrette, toss well, garnish with mint and basil and serve.
Muddy Buddy’s in the Atlanta Area, SLT is coming to TOWN!
By Danny on Jun 16 Filed In Events, Muddy Buddy 1 Comment
The Muddy Buddy train is headed to HOT-lanta this weekend and Sweet Leaf Tea is running the engine. If you don’t know what Muddy Buddy is, click here. It’s a muddy fun time, I’ll tell you that! What better way to quench your thirst after a play date with wet dirt than an ice-cold CITRUS GREEN TEA!
Several tea’mates from the office have participated in the past, and take it from them, it’s a blast.
So, if you are planning on racing, or watching a friend race, you should stop by the Sweet Leaf Tea Booth for some refreshing beverages. When you are there, say “Hi” to Greg, he’ll be passing out homemade goodness in a can from a tent that looks like this (below). —- Also, follow us on Twitter, @SweetLeafTea, for news/events/contests. We have some great stuff in the works for wonderful people like you!
Cooking with Tea: Citrus Green “Tea Ice”
By Megan on May 28 Filed In Activities, Food & Beverage, teasnacky Add a Comment
Yep, you read that right. It’s not “iced tea”…it’s a “tea ice,” a deliciously refreshing dessert for summertime. This dessert is a Sweet Leaf take on the traditional Mexican “hielo,” which is usually made by blending juice or fruit puree with sugar and water, and then freezing it into a slushee-type consistency. Best part is, using Sweet Leaf Tea makes it super-easy! Here’s how it’s made:
Ingredients:
-1 bottle Citrus Green Sweet Leaf Tea (16 or 20oz)
-Zest and juice of 1 lime
-Optional: 1 shot liquor (rum, tequila, triple sec, etc)
Pour all ingredients into large, non-reactive dish or pan that will fit in your freezer. I used a 9×12 ceramic baking dish. Glass and stainless steel work too. Liquid should form a thin layer.
Cover with plastic wrap and place in freezer. Each hour for 2-3 hours, remove from freezer and stir/scrape with a fork. Then let freeze another 2-3 hours. At the end, you should have a deliciously refreshing summer dessert that looks like a sno-cone and tastes like Granny’s homemade goodness. Enjoy!
-Megan
The First Annual Tea-Luck
By Charla on May 25 Filed In Activities, Food & Beverage, Uncategorized, teasnacky 3 Comments
Surely, you’ve heard of our Tea Snacky conquest by now. (Twitter: #teasnacky) And if you haven’t, well, you picked the right post to jump in on the bandwagon. Tea snacky is our ode to fine foods that just happen to go deliciously with a chosen flavor of Sweet Leaf Tea. Sometimes, our iced tea just serves as a complimentary beverage to a snack. And, sometimes it’s mixed right on in. In honor of the stomach growl inducing tea snacky ideas we’ve been receiving, we thought it was due time to take this conquest to the next level. Hence, the “Tea-Luck”.
Yep, instead of a pot-luck, the Sweet Leaf Marketing Tea’m decided to gather and host a Tea-Luck where all the food served had to be made with a bottle of Sweet Leaf Tea. Now, some of you might be thinking, what in the world can you make with those delicious sweet teas….and that’s where the fun begins my friends. I have to be honest here, I was a little timid at first. But after a quick Google search, I was amazed at the sheer volume of recipes that can be made with tea. All it takes is a little crafty cooking, a little switcharoo of this or that, and a good understanding of our flavors. And voila! Masterpieces.
Seriously, if you need a tea’m of chefs at your next family gathering or friendsgiving, then you might consider hiring us. Or, you can just follow along here all this week to get each of the recipes from our little Tea-Luck to make the sweetest, most delicious tea-inspired meal you’ve ever had. If you give it a go, be sure to send us a picture to sltfan@sweetleaftea.com and if we post it here on the blog, we’ll send you a few bottles of your chosen flavor. For some odd reason, we get a kick out of tea-themed parties.
The First Annual Tea-Luck Menu:
The Original Glazed Porkchop (by @SweetLeafDanny)
Sweet Sprouts of Brussel (by @SweetLeafAshley)
Mint & Honey Strawberry Salad (by @SweetLeafCharla)
Tangerine Cucumber Citrus Quinoa (by @SweetLeafApril)
Citrus Tea Icee (by Sweet Leaf Megan)
Half & Half Fruit Ala-mode (by @SweetLeafAshley)
First Annual Tea-Luck Feast
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