Blueberry Green Tea Latte

I’m sitting here typing with my first tan of the year and dirt on my brow. Yes, I’ve been hard at work in the garden planting flowers from the nursery to spruce up the place (it looked a bit barren after I dug up many of my garden treasures to store temporarily at my parents’ place this summer while the homestead is being built.) But now things are looking much nicer, and if you couldn’t tell from the photos, the wisteria on the patio is blooming like CRAZY and saturating the whole garden area with its sweet perfume. Thank goodness for flowers! After many days working outside in the sunshine, I’ve been desperately craving a refreshing iced latte. But instead of getting a processed one from a coffee shop, it’s much tastier (and very easy…and also lots cheaper) to make one at home yourself! And so I am sharing this tasty + simple blueberry green tea latte with you today, to get you amped up for late spring’s blueberry harvest. Woohoo!

The recipe is incredibly simple. Just boil some blueberries, sugar, and water together and then strain it. And voila! You have blueberry syrup. Then you can just keep it in a jar in the fridge, and mix it with some brewed green tea and milk over ice whenever you want. If you’re not a matcha or green tea fan, you could swap it with whatever kind of tea you like. Blueberry syrup goes will with pretty much any kind of tea, and adds a wonderful berry flavor and touch of sweetness to your latte. You can also feel free to use whatever kind of milk you like, I use whole milk in the recipe but it also tastes great with plant based milks, too (I’ve done it with homemade cashew milk and its very nice!) And if you’re more of a coffee drinker, I have a nice iced vanilla latte recipe, too!

We’re hoping to put our house here in Portland up for sale in a few weeks’ time, it just depends on how soon we can finish painting the inside. We are doing it ourselves and taking our time because I like doing a thorough job (there’s something I find deeply satisfying about peeling off painters tape and seeing a nice clean line between wall and trim!) So my goal is to keep posting once a week, but if I fall off that schedule in the month ahead please forgive me since I’m probably just elbows deep in paint and possibly packing. We’ll be moving in with my parents for the summer after selling our Portland home, and the homestead should be done in October so we’ll be moving again then, too. It will be an exciting few months ahead with lots of changes, but I’m ready for it! Wishing you a wonderful week, my friend, and talk soon!