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Coffee and Brown Sugar Barbecue Sauce

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:13:44 +0000

Coffee adds a deep, rich note to traditional barbecue sauce. Brew up some strong coffee and try this coffee and brown sugar barbecue sauce for your next batch of short ribs or barbecued chicken wings. Keep in mind that different coffees have different flavors, and you can make subtle changes to this recipe by using [...]

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How Coffee May Affect Your Health

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:25:36 +0000

Back when I was growing up, everyone knew one thing about coffee — it stunts your growth. It was the reason that parents didn’t allow kids to drink coffee. There were other bits of wisdom about how coffee affects your health, and over the years, drinking coffee — and caffeine in general — has been [...]

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Coffee Recipes – Coffee Meringue Kisses

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:27:14 +0000

Most people are familiar with meringue as the light, crispy/gooey topping on a lemon meringue pie, but there’s so much more to the delicate egg-white treat. When you add brewed coffee to meringue, the end result is a melt-in-your-mouth treat that starts out crispy and ends up as a pure kiss of coffee flavor. You [...]

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How to Brew Coffee

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:20:45 +0000

Brewing coffee may seem like a common household task, but in reality, it can approach the level of art. There are so many different methods of brewing coffee and so many types of coffee that you can brew it to exactly suit your own preferences, even if they change from cup to cup. The brewing [...]

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Coffee Recipes – Irish Coffee Truffles

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:06:45 +0000

Chocolate covered Irish Coffee Truffles – delicious! January 25th is National Irish Coffee Day, but you don’t have to wait for that one day a year to enjoy the smooth, rich flavors of Irish whiskey blended with gourmet coffee. In fact, you don’t even have to drink it. You can make these luscious bites of [...]

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Coffee May Help Prevent Depression

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:55:08 +0000

Coffee lovers know that a cup of java can work wonders on a grumpy mood, but now there’s medical proof that the lift may be more long-lasting than previously suspected. A study published in the Sept 26 2011 issue of the National Archives of Internal Medicine notes a 20% reduction in the risk of clinical [...]

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Scientists May Know Link Between Coffee and Diabetes

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:50:01 +0000

A group of Chinese researchers believe they may have found the mechanism by which coffee helps prevent type 2 diabetes. Scientists have been aware that coffee seems to reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes for some time now. The exact mechanism — even the substances in coffee that provide the protective effect — [...]

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Does Decaf Coffee Reduce the Risk of Diabetes?

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:19:49 +0000

The release of a new study about coffee and diabetes has raised questions again about whether decaffeinated coffee is a healther choice for coffee lovers than regular coffee. A number of earlier studies on coffee and diabetes have shown that people who drink four or more cups of coffee a day reduce their risk of [...]

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Is Your Coffee Habit Costing You a Grand?

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:09:26 +0000

How much do you spend on coffee every year? Accounting Principals, a leading accounting recruiting firm, recently did a survey of 1,000 American workers and found that the total they spend on coffee at the office could be considerably more than they realize. According to the figures, about half of American workers buy coffee at [...]

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Harvard Study Supports Benefits of Coffee for Diabetes

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:51:52 +0000

Harvard University researcher Nicole Wedick, ScD., recently gave 45 overweight adults an unusual dietary order — drink 5 cups of coffee a day for two months. The order was part of Wedick’s research into the benefits of coffee for those at risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Her research is part of a growing body [...]

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Troubleshooting Tips for Frothing Milk for Cappuccino

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:34:20 +0000

Frothing milk properly is one of the most envied of all barista skills. While espresso aficianadoes will tell you that the joy of espresso is in the bean, there are many folks who simply enjoy that lovely, velvety thick foam top on their coffee. Frothing milk for a cappuccino shouldn’t be a difficult process — [...]

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Cuisinart EM-100: Espresso has Never Been so Easy

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:11:06 +0000

It is confession time: I’m completely in love with my Cuisinart EM-100 espresso maker. I have always enjoyed my Cuisinart kitchen appliances, so when it came time to add an espresso machine to the line-up, my choice of brand was a no-brainer. From the first day that I installed this stainless steel wonder on my [...]

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Toddy T2N Cold Brew System Does it All

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:44:01 +0000

When I was looking at possibilities for my new coffee maker, I almost skipped over the Toddy T2N Cold Brew coffee maker simply because of the word ‘cold’ in its name—but I sure am glad I kept reading! The first surprise for me was the fact that “cold brew” doesn’t necessarily translate to cold coffee. [...]

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Spoil Yourself with the DeLonghi EC702 Espresso Maker

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:06:13 +0000

My mom and I used to have a mother-daughter ritual of coming home from a shopping trip and making espresso together. That was twenty years ago when I still lived near home, and when home espresso makers weren’t exactly intuitive or easy to use. Given our old ritual, I thought an espresso maker—a newer kind—would [...]

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Coffee Phirni Recipe

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:21:50 +0000

Phirni (firni) is a delectable Indian dessert made with rice flour. Traditioanlly, phirni is made with rose water or orange blossom water, saffron and cardamom. Most recipes for phirni also include ground pistachios or almonds, and have raisins or currants mixed into it. It’s a wonderful way to end a traditional Indian dinner. Fair warning: [...]

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Baratza Coffee Grinders

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:54:16 +0000

Freshly ground coffee is one of the most important factors in making good coffee. While many people are perfectly satisfied with coffee ground in an inexpensive blade grinder, if you make espresso-based drinks in an espresso machine, you’ll quickly learn just how important a high-quality grinder is to making good espresso. A good cup of [...]

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Making Coffee in a Coffee Urn

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:06:17 +0000

Back in the day when young families routinely entertained dinner parties of twenty to thirty people, a coffee urn was practically de rigueur. Nearly every suburban housewife owned one – usually a West Bend or Hamilton Beach in Avocado, Harvest Gold or Burnt Orange to match her kitchen appliances. These days, you’ll seldom see a [...]

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How Much Coffee Do I Use For…?

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:39:08 +0000

Measuring coffee used to be a simple thing. Just follow the directions on the side of the can. If there were no directions, there was the fail-safe measurement method every young lady learned in Home Ec classes – one heaping teaspoon per cup of coffee, plus one heaping teaspoon for the pot. That was fine [...]

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Healthy Coffee: What’s the Buzz About?

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:04:29 +0000

Mushrooms in your coffee? If you’re a confirmed coffee lover, you’re probably shuddering at the thought. Ganoderma, crimini and shitake mushrooms are the latest twist on making healthy coffee for health-conscious coffee lover. According to the word on the street, when you combine these mushrooms – used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine – with [...]

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How to Cold Brew Coffee

admin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:48:01 +0000

If you’ve never tried cold brew coffee, you’re in for a treat. Brewing coffee with cold water – though brew may not be quite the right word for the process – produces a cup of coffee that is smooth, rich and full-flavored without the acid and bitterness that often mars coffee brewed in an automatic [...]

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