When someone says Tea around here, they’re talkin’ sweet. Possibly even with some fresh mint and sliced lemons.
Down here in Texas, tea is sweetened and served cold.
So, when I was offered some Tazo Tea flavors to try and a recipe book… well, you can guess which of those things piqued my interest :-). I’m game for trying new things and heaven knows that I’m not likely to turn down a recipe book (heh).
I was intrigued when my box of goodies arrived and I saw this:
This pic is obviously AFTER I have already started to use the products 😉
I have to say, the Iced Black Tea, Yum. I added the delicious Blue Agave syrup as a sweetener and it was really yummy! Nice and subtle with just a hint of citrus. I could easily see myself making this instead of our regular sweet Tea. The Green Tea was yummy too, which surprised me because, all the Green Teas that I’ve tried (you know the bottles) have been bitterish and not appealing.
So, the recipe book… I decided to make these lemon awake cookies using the Awake Tea packets.. The cookies, the kids loved. I mean loved, loved, loved. I loved, loved, loved this lemon icing that was made using the contents of an Awake Tea Bag, lemon zest, lemon juice and powdered sugar. Y’all.. I want to create entire desserts just to use this icing. It is.. nom.. citrusy, zingy, light.. just heavenly.
As if my pretty pictures and opinion aren’t enough for y’all…
I have a Tazo Tea goody pack for TWO of y’all! Just like the one that I received! This is awesome. Trust me. The white platter is mine and not included in the goody pack (sorry).
- One piece of advice: When you get your purty glass pitcher… Do not put hot tea into the pretty glass pitcher, because there’s a chance it might shatter. All over your kitchen counter and floor. (not that I know from experience or anything)
NOW The nitty gritty dirt band details:
- Leave a comment telling me about your favorite kind of tea (1 entry)
- Twitter this and leave the tweet url in a separate comment (1 entry)
- Visit Tazo Tea’s website and tell me what flavor you’d most like to try in a separate comment (1 entry)
This contest is open from Sept 1, 2009 until Friday Sept 4, 2009 at 10:00 PM CST . Random.org will be used to choose the winners! Good luck y’all!
In case you didn’t gather it from the post… I was given the Tazo Tea goodies to try and if I so chose, write about. The giveaways for my readers.. just a bonus! I may have received these items for free (THANK YOU!) but, my opinions were in no way bought, paid for or compromised in any way. Y’all know that I’m as transparent as glass that has never seen a smudgey child’s handprint.
Congratulations to our Winners! Ree from The Hotfessional and Stacy from A Boy Makes 3
Welllll, my favorite tea is the only Tazo tea I’ve tried – the passion tea. YUM! I also drink it iced. I’ve never found a green tea that I like, either. 🙁
I LOVE LOVE LOVE lemony ANYTHING. One of our favorites is lemon poppyseed crisps made with lemon muffin mix. Mmmmmmm.
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I have never been a big tea drinker, so the only tea I’ve ever really had is just plain old iced tea. But now that I am dieting (eek!) and trying to lay off the pop/soda, I have decided that tea might be a good thing to try out.
Enter me in the contest… thanks!
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Oh and I checked the Tazo website, and am digging the Tazo Chai Tea Latte.
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I’m not a plain tea drinker 🙂 it’s got to have SOMETHING in it! I think so far my favs have been peach tea and blueberry tea. and COLD! unless it is cold out, in that case I need it warm to warm me up! but I like the convenience of the Crystal Light teas so I can pop one in my water bottle.
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I’d love to try the Sweet Cinnamon Spice! Can you just imagine sipping that while cuddled under a blanket in the cool autumn weather?! Well, maybe not in TX but definitely in OH-IO!
all of the herbal infussions look mighty tasty though!
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Starbucks makes a great Tazo passion tea lemonade that is my go-to drink in the summer!!! It’d be great to make it at home!
I have finally pushed thru my diet coke addiction and discovered tea. It took long enough … but then my mother’s tea isn’t the sweet tea of the South (she likes it unsweetened.) Tea was something I always associated with adults drinking … guess I finally admitting that I am an adult. 🙂
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My all-time favorite hot tea is Sleepytime by Celestial Seasonings! Brings back good memories from my childhood. 🙂
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Because I’m about all things autumn/fall right now, the Sweet Cinnamon Spice tea is really calling out to me!
Wishing the Internets had scratch n’ sniff capabilities.
And I have to say, the little teapot cursor on the site? Darling!
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Tweeted it!
http://twitter.com/justmalia/statuses/3689384207
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I love me some yummy sweet tea, however I do love hot flavored tea. My favorite is Spiced Cinnamon Orange.
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I would love to try the Tazo Vanilla Latte Tea
Tazo tea is my all time favorite! We have it at work and I always stop in Starbucks in the summer and get half black tea half passion fruit on ice….so refreshing!! The cookies sound fab! So nice of you to share the love/tea!!
i LOVE Republic of Tea teas. their ginger peach makes an AWESOME iced tea. But I use TAZO citrus tea with my standard tea bags because it gives it a ZING. 🙂
Oh you lucky girl! I LOVE tea and Tazo is awesome. I want to make those cookies!!
I love all sorts of tea, but my favorites are classics – Earl Gray and Darjeeling.
I would like to try the Tazo calm! i know my mom used this when she had surgery and it really settled her stomach and nerves and helped her get the sleep she desperatly needed!
At their web site – I’d try all of it but I’ll say Wild Orange. That sounds amazing.
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Here’s my tweet! http://twitter.com/Amy2boys/status/3689848749
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What kind of tea do I like? The kind that goes in a cup or glass. Tea is my fav (just barely behind water). I guess my favorite is a mild peach tea.
I visited the Tazo website and found several I would like to try. I have had many of them but the one I would like to try is Zen.
I would love to try the African red bush decaf or the calm. Mama needs calm. 😉
I am trying Twinings of London African Rooibos tea right now at work!
Actually, I like hot tea. My favs are Lemon, Raspberry and Mint Green tea. IN fact I think I’m going ot have a Lemon flavored one now!
PS – I hope you didn’t shatter your pitcher!
Janellen11Rachel is so sweet to have a give-away this week – Tazo Teas!! Check it out — http://bit.ly/2Viqvf
My favorite is sweet tea from Chik Fil A or McDonald’s. I also love Rx Stress Tea from Arizona. I would love to branch out and try Tazo Tea, though.
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I love green tea. Slightly sweeten. Yum!
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I tweeted about this giveaway! sillylittle enter Southern Fairytale’s Tazo Tea Giveaway! http://bit.ly/4berFv
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Yum, Green Ginger sounds delightful!
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Oh mi gosh, I love tea. Any flavor! But my favorite is Chai Tea.
Kyla in KY
I love, love, love tea. Hot, cold, in recipes and just in a mug. My mom and I always bonded (girl chat) over cups of hot tea at the kitchen table. Now, my mommy girlfriends and I chat it up over cold pitchers of tea in my kitchen. I have several boxes of Tazo tea and although Chai isn’t my fav…my friends seem to enjoy it. I would love a recipe book to make some tea time snacks to go along with everything!
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Black tea is one I’ve never tried and I love all types of green tea…bitter or smooth so I’d like to try that as well!
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I’ve been a Tazo fan for a long time. I get the Chai Latte concentrate so I can have a hot cuppa at work.
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The African Red Bush is one I would like to try. I’ve had rooibos before, but would love to taste Tazo red.
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Here’s my tweet about the Tea and Cookie party:
http://twitter.com/Tara_R/status/3694906292
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A TEA giveaway! Squee!
Love this. OK fav flav is Lapsang Souchong. I don’t sweeten my tea, so I really love the smokey aroma. Also? I can not tell you how many times I’ve had to fight for unsweetened tea at local restaurants. Oh the shame of being Southern but not drinking sweet tea!
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I tweeted, too. http://twitter.com/CannedLaughter/status/3695084536
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Chai tea is my favorite!! I looooooove it and drink it daily 🙂
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I would probably try TAZO’s Mambo tea. Hey! Mambo! and now that song is stuck in my head…
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I like green, chai, and oolong tea 😀
Checked their website – Mmmm – I’m thinking the Calm or Refresh would be just divine!!
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Other than Sweet Tea with Lemon, my favorite 2 teas are Tazo’s Passion & Aveda’s Comforting Tea! I’d love to have a sampler. 🙂
I love Lemon and Orange Spice Teas.
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I’d love to try the passion fruit. Or really any of the fruit or berry flavors.
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I just LOVE Tazo’s Passion Tea, and their Chai (which is srsly like crack!)
I would LOVE this gift pack! LOVE IT!
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I’d love to try the Green Tea, mostly because I’ve heard that it’s much sweeter & not as bitter as other green teas!
Oooooh, I love Tazo tea. My favorite is their Green Ginger. Now I must go look at the other flavors!
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I have just discovered red tea, so I think the one I’d like to try is the African Red Bush. Yum.
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CHAI! 🙂
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I drink a lot of tea, and my favorite is passion fruit. Arbys has a great tea!
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looks like i need to try their Chai tea…sounds good!
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I love tea – all kinds. Tazo makes wonderful tea flavors – my favorites are: Chai, Refresh, and Calm. I especially love a fresh pitcher of iced tea with some fruit slices (peaches, blackberries, or strawberries) added on those hot days!
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I love me some green tea, chilled and sweetened.
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I’ve never been a big tea drinker, but I just started brewing tea at work because I figured it was good for me. Turns out the tea I have been brewing is quite good. It’s a green tea with papaya and pinapple in it. Ok, enough about tea. Let’s talk about desserts with lemon!!!! Why? Because desserts with ANYTHING lemon in em are my FAVORITE. Cookie please?
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My husband is addicted to their black tea from Starbucks! We get it several times a day, so it is our favorite.
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My husband is addicted to their black tea from Starbucks! We get it several times a day, so it is our favorite.
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I’d like to try the passion fruit!
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My favorite kind of tea is a warm cup of Earl Gray on a Fall morning, sipped while alone and still in my jammies.
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The Honeybush flavor sounds delish! And it doesn’t hurt that it’s naturally caffeine free, too. 🙂
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I am a chai drinker, myself, but just about any tea with a dash of sugar and drop of cream is really *my* cup of tea. 😉 Thanks for the chance to win! I’d really like to try that icing!
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The lemon/citrus tea and the mint tea would be my first to try, if I had them. I love lemon (thus, my eagerness to try that icing!) and nothing like warm mint tea helps a sore throat in the winter! Mmmmm. Thanks for the second entry!
I’d tweet, but I have a private Twitter account and my hubby is my only follower. It wouldn’t do much to get the word out. Sorry.
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Love me some black tea with agave. Yum.
Seriously, unsweetened iced tea? Blasphemy. I blame Atkins for that nonsense.
Absolutely sweetened tea no lemon with ice.
Of course in winter I like mine with a little cream and sugar.
YUM
I just visited the website and I want to try them all now – THANKS for sharing.
Passion is my favorite Taza Tea. Caffeine free and delicious.
I wanna try the Cinnamon Spice tea. 🙂
Oh count me in please! My favorite kind of hot teas are the herbal teas with calming herbs, like chamomile & valerian! I love to have a cup before bed.
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I tweeted! http://twitter.com/mynew30/status/3761885117
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Went to the Tazo website and I would LOVE to try the “Passion” tea. I have never seen that one!
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