Coffee - a short video
Posted May 24, 2007 – 9:56 am in: Beverages, Coffee, Humourwritten and directed by Robert Vaughn
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Food Bites - April 27
Posted April 27, 2007 – 9:01 pm in: African, Beverages, Coffee, Condiments, Diet, Herbs and Spices, How To, Low Fat, Main Dish, Oriental, Pork, Poultry, Thai, Tips, Vegetable2 Ingredients, 2 Recipes, 4 Meals – Here’s a couple of recipes using pork and green beans.
Curry pastes – A necessary ingredient in a Perfect Pantry.
Honey Glazed Lemon Roast Chicken Recipe – A simple and delicious recipe for roast chicken.
What Do 300 Calorie Meals Look Like? – Pictures to give a visual sense of what a 300 [...]
And now, for some completely different coffee
Posted March 28, 2007 – 10:07 am in: Beverages, CoffeeThe boys at Transcend coffee have laid their hands on 20 pounds of Hacienda La Esmeralda, which will be arriving soon. Forbes magazine listed this as the second most expensive coffee in the world:
“Hacienda La Esmeralda’s Geisha coffee set an online auction record when it sold for over $50 dollars per pound, unroasted, on May [...]
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Posted March 3, 2007 – 11:12 am in: Beverages, Coffee, Humour“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” —Abraham Lincoln
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Posted January 14, 2007 – 12:42 pm in: Beverages, Coffee, TipsIf you really want to taste a fresh brew, you’ll want to roast your own coffee beans at home, and then use them as soon as they have cooled.
Home Coffee Roasting Tips
The DIY Guide to Roasting Your Own Coffee!
Posted January 8, 2007 – 1:54 pm in: Beverages, Coffee, TipsI’ve been roasting my own coffee for seven or eight years and there is nothing beats the freshness —and price— of home roasted coffee. Wurdgurl has a Squidoo lens on roasting your own coffee. There’s plenty of information here to get anyone with a hot-air popcorn popper or a cast-iron skillet started as a home roaster.
The [...]
20 Facts About Coffee
Posted December 20, 2006 – 11:53 pm in: Beverages, Coffee…plus six more.
The blog, Anything but Coffee, anticipating search engine referrals looking for information about coffee, has posted a page with 20 facts about coffee.
Number 11 makes me glad I don’t buy coffee at a drive-through.
Number 12 is the reason why I brew instead of buy.
Number 18 has me wondering who gets the other $12.91 [...]
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Posted October 31, 2006 – 12:37 pm in: Beverages, Coffee, Ethiopian, NewsIn his workshop in Mekele, just 200km from Ethiopia’s border with Eritrea, Azmeraw Zekele is turning burnt-out shells into cylinders used in coffee machines.
Most of the shells are left over from the 1998-2000 war between the two countries.
BBC NEWS | Africa | From weapons of war to great coffee
Beginner’s Guide to Coffee
Posted July 25, 2006 – 8:48 am in: Beverages, CoffeeI’m a coffee geek.
Okay, as far as my friends are concerned, I’m a coffee geek. As far as real coffee geeks are concerned, I’ve got a ways to go before I can claim the title.
What coffee knowlege I have has been developed through a hit-and-miss approach. I’ve read articles, books and brochures and talked to [...]
Starbucks Copycat Recipes
Posted June 29, 2006 – 2:34 pm in: Beverages, Coffee, CopycatThe Gourmet Sleuth has done a little detecting and dug up clues to solving the mysteries of Starbucks recipes. (I’m sure there’s a couple of jokes embedded in that phrase.) Among the links are recipes for these standard beverages plus some that I’ve not seen in Starbucks around here.
There are also some pastry recipes. Again, Starbucks in this [...]