little miss lovebird: Homemade Peach Iced Tea

I absolutely LOVE peaches. In just about every form. A special favorite of mine if fresh peach ice cream on a waffle cone. *yum* It takes me back to the days of going on vacations to Florida every summer and making a pit stop at this peach farm and deli shop in Alabama on both the trip down and back home. We would buy big crates of peaches and eat them all week long on breaks from the beach. Then on the way home we would stop again and buy more to bring back to Kentucky. They were so good.

I still remember the way the little place smelled, and watching it grow from year to year. And sometimes if we were lucky we would eat lunch there at the deli. There is something about a southern deli and rocking chairs on the porch. But if we were even luckier we were able to get ice cream. They also had ice cream that they made. All if which was delicious but I always got the peach for myself. They used their own peaches in a vanilla ice cream base and it was to die for. And that’s big coming from me cause there are very few sweets I like that don’t include chocolate. I’m kind of a diva that way.

So when I started seeing peaches at the farmers market this year I wanted some. Unfortunately the husband isn’t a huge fan of peaches. He’ll eat just about anything but he doesn’t like peaches. How can this be? So I finally did buy some from the farmers market, but it’s so hard to me to eat that many before they go bad!

So I decided to make peach iced tea with them! And believe it or not this IS one peach thing John will enjoy. Plus we’re cutting back on buying coke at the store and making a switch to pitches of Crystal Light in the fridge, so this is basically the same thing!

This was SO easy and it tastes great!

All you have to do is make some iced tea. Use whatever tea you like normally and make according to the package. I prefer Luzianne for my iced tea. It comes in the big bags {one bag per quart of water but I always throw in one extra bag cause I like my tea strong}. Leave some room in you pitcher with the peaches, ice, and cool water.

For the peach flavor you need a few ripe peaches. The peaches I had gotten were small ones of I use three but if you have big ones two would be enough.

I pitted and skinned them. My were SUPER ripe so it was kind of a mushy mess. I made sure to do it all over the bowl I was collecting them in so all the juices were together and not running down my counter.

Then I put them all in my food processor. {Seriously this thing is one of my best friends. It amazing. I think I use it almost every day at least once.}

I chopped it all up until it was a soupy! I added less than 1/4C of water to help make it very thin.

After I took my tea bags out of my pitcher I mixed in my liquid peaches and some sugar {sweeten to your liking with sugar, sweetener or a combo} I think I used a little less than 1C.

Once everything is all mixed up and dissolved add a bunch of ice and if you still have room some cool tap water to fill your pitcher up. And now you’re good to go!