What You Do When the Guys Are Gone…

My lab, affectionately known as White Dog, enjoying a rare nap on the couch Both of my grandmothers were military spouses. Both were spouses to Navy seamen. Both of them were very classy ladies, who married even classier men. When …

Hold Him Extra Close Tonight

Marine-Couple-Hugging Image credits SpouseBuzz As I’m sure most of you are aware, Monday night at least seven families lost their marines in a training accident. We all know that being a Marine is a lot more dangerous than, say, being an accountant, …

I’m Not Really Sure What’s For Dinner…

Faux Pho No…really…I made something…I’m just not quite sure what it is! I had originally planned to make Faux Pho (recipes from Epicurious, FoodJaunts, and Bon Appetit  — although Bon Appetit makes ramen even sound pretentious — ) but best laid plans…I ran to the …

Homemade Butter

Homemade Butter Over the weekend Mr Marine and I ran out of butter. Since I’ve been on this green/organic/homemade kick I decided I would make my own instead of buying from the store! According to Bon Appetit it may be …

Frugal Foods – Homemade Lamb Stock

Mr Marine brought home a huge lamb leg (forgive me for not knowing the technical term) with the bone in and cooked it for dinner over the weekend. I can’t remember the last time I had lamb, but it was …

Frugal Foods – Homemade Pizza Sauce

Homemade Pizza Sauce This past week Mr Marine and I were snowed in, in a late winter snow storm. This weekend it should be in the 60s! While we were deciding what to have for lunch, we noticed we had …

Frugal Foods – Mr. Marine’s Meatballs

Meatballs 1 lb beef 1 egg ½ -3/4 cup Italian breadcrumbs EVOO Oregano Basil Garlic salt Black pepper Worchestershire Mix together all ingredients. Form into balls — size doesn’t matter 😉 Heat EVOO in a frying pan and brown balls …

Iced Green Tea and Lime

Iced Green Tea

I absolutely love Starbuck’s Cool Lime Refresher and when I saw FitSugar’s Green Tea Lime Cooler on Pinterest I know I had to jump on it. I love the idea of replacing my morning and afternoon coffees with tea instead. It gives you that same pick-me-up PLUS antioxidants MINUS all the sugar and creamer and jittery feeling and caffeine crash you get from coffee.

I was first introduced to yerba mate by some Argentines I worked with a long time ago. They drink it almost all day, loose leaf out of gourds with a metal straw. It contains twice as much caffeine as black tea, but half as much as a cup of coffee. This makes it perfect for me because regular green tea isn’t enough to get me moving in the morning, but coffee is almost too much. For more benefits of yerba mate click here.

4 cups of Green tea (yerba mate)

Juice from 1 lime

1-2 tsp sugar or agave nectar

Handful of ice

Quart-sized mason jars

1. Boil water and steep tea for between 3-5 min, depending on the strength of the tea
2. Add sweetener and lime juice and allow to cool
3. Save tea in mason jars and allow to chill in the fridge. (I’ll usually make a quart the night before and leave it in the fridge to use on an as-needed basis)
4. Throw some ice cubes and enjoy!

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