{"id":9,"date":"2012-05-24T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2012-06-26T22:30:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T22:30:33","slug":"french-jam-and-iced-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"French Jam and Iced Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call it thrifty or good recycling, I like the sound of &#8216;clever domesticity&#8217;!\u00a0\u00a0 A little inexpensive solution for at home is always a treasure of a find when it is a <em>pretty <\/em>solution as well!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bonne Maman has become our jam of choice (first spotted it at Safeway).\u00a0 It tastes very much like home-made and is a product of France.\u00a0 Originally I started purchasing it because of its simple and understandable ingredients, but the pretty jars have turned out to be great drinking glasses, adding to this jams appeal.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Lq4GiAJ2fds\/T751AgQ8IoI\/AAAAAAAAPDE\/MAxnK57zL4k\/s1600\/IMG_2958b.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Lq4GiAJ2fds\/T751AgQ8IoI\/AAAAAAAAPDE\/MAxnK57zL4k\/s320\/IMG_2958b.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I just couldn&#8217;t throw them out once emptied.\u00a0 In a family of six I long ago gave up on sets of glasses.\u00a0 We smash threw them pretty quickly.\u00a0 Jars of smaller stature have been my solution.\u00a0 I have traded the controlled and appealing idea of a set of drinking glasses for the whimsy of a myriad of drinking jars.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tip- Save the lids when you save the jars, as they do come in handy; for example:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Summer means a fridge full of a selection of home-made iced teas.\u00a0 I save large glass jars from juices we buy for the summer teas specifically.\u00a0 From steeping to storing to serving; the jars make it all more lovely.\u00a0 Smaller jars, like the jams, are kept with their lids so we can put ice, some lemon or milk, sweetener and tea in them, then give a good shake.\u00a0 Much like making a martini, our delicious summer teas are prepared that easily \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-yqR07LWtVYg\/T759i6iNzWI\/AAAAAAAAPDQ\/CEm1a3E1FA4\/s1600\/267934_10150220395472127_643127126_7461181_3130506_a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-yqR07LWtVYg\/T759i6iNzWI\/AAAAAAAAPDQ\/CEm1a3E1FA4\/s320\/267934_10150220395472127_643127126_7461181_3130506_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>And YES I prefer my home-made iced tea <em>shaken and not stirred<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>TTFN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call it thrifty or good recycling, I like the sound of &#8216;clever domesticity&#8217;!\u00a0\u00a0 A little inexpensive solution for at home is always a treasure of a find when it is a pretty solution as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}