Porch-Sitting Iced Tea for Grown Ups

1. Bring gallon of water to a boil, drop in tea bags. Remove from heat and leave to steep. When steeped to taste, put in fridge to cool.

2. Place water and sugar in a sauce pan, bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring to ensure the sugar dissolves and the syrup becomes clear. Chop up about half the bunch of mint and place it in the syrup. Put in fridge to cool.

3. When you’re ready to drink, pour a few fingers of JD into a tall glass, top off with iced tea, and sweeten to taste with mint syrup. Garnish with a mint stem – it looks pretty, makes a great stirrer, and adds more soft mint flavor to the yumminess.

4. Sit on the porch on a summer afternoon, enjoy your grown up iced tea, and reeeelaaax.