u/sortaitchy

I drink my coffee black and have all of my life. We brew our own at home always, and sometimes french press if we don't want a whole pot. Husband enjoys his coffee with a flavored syrup and a bit of milk. I was buying them for $6 - $12 dollars each, but found they all tasted the same to me and many used artificial sweeteners and flavours.

I like to make my own things and was wondering why I wasn't making my own syrups. I found one for Salted Caramel syrup and husband said it is infinitely better than the commercially bottled. At a fraction of the price I was happy to hear that and will probably do a little digging to find more flavours that I can make at home with real ingredients. I already make the vanilla syrup for my London Fog tea, but why stop at two??

Do you have recipes you use?

All winter I have been bringing freshly fallen snow off the deck and yard. We live rural so there is no salt/sand/ exhaust in the snow I collect, but there are very likely backyards, or decks in cities that are also clean. When the snow melts, I use it to water my houseplants, and recently the seedlings I started in my little greenhouse. Our water is pumped from the city, but it smells a bit of bleach and our holding tank is large and not often emptied. We get a bit of mildew on things occasionally, and since there was SO MUCH SNOW all winter, I thought why not use it!

Maybe I am imagining things, but my houseplants were super happy this year, and the seedlings are awesome! I've even taken to filling up the barn cat's heated water dishes with freshly melted snow.

Anyway, if you are like us and still have lots of fresh snow, maybe you can do something with it besides cussing it haha.

Here's a link I finally looked up to see if what I was doing had any science behind it. Appears it does! They call snow "Poor Man's Fertilizer" and I suspect the farmers have known about that for centuries