A Nice Cuppa

Let me begin by saying that I eat in phases.
There was the Baked Potato Phase, the Milkshake Phase (one of my favorites), the Avocado Phase, and, that good old standby, the Cereal Phase (Frosted Flakes are the choice du jour, por favor).
Naturally, that is not to say that these are the only foods I eat, […]

My head is spinning, and I’ve gone to the bathroom about 5 times now. Yes, I know that’s TMI, but I’m doing it for you. See, when I saw that Burman coffee traders had a Kaapi Royale Robusta bean with nearly 4x the typical caffeine, I knew that as a blogger it was […]

Bikinis and low-riders and tea? Oh my! Marketing iced tea to the hot and thirsty has come a long way since the Lipton plunge. Remember the image of a fully clothed middle-aged man falling into a pool with an iced Lipton tea? That commercial is tame compared to Fuze’s summer advertising. […]

Grab a spoon!
Yup, you read that correctly - grab a spoon. But not just any old spoon, an ice spoon. Walter Drake an online and catalog retailer of a myriad of home accessories carries what I consider to be one of my most useful finds of the summer - ice spoon molds.

Fill the […]

These days, health is everything and the phrase “you are what you eat” is truer than ever before. But, don???t you just get tired of it all sometimes? I mean, eggs were bad for you. Now the good outweighs the bad. Eat fish twice weekly, but here???s the exhaustive list you […]

Undaunted by the delightful-sounding, yet ultimately disappointing Blisscotti, I am continuing my search for the perfect frozen coffee treat. I finally determined my criteria for perfection: I do not have to make it, it is readily available, not so expensive that I must forego actual food in order to purchase it, must be […]

I???m my daddy???s girl. Like pop, I roam the grocery aisles. While Dad gets his thrills price checking at Wal-Mart (his skill would stun Bob Barker), I prefer looking for funky-packaged fruit purees (my skill is drink-making) at Asian markets.

The flavor of the day is Mango. The drink is Mango-Lychee Bubble Tea. […]

Ah, that rich aroma of coffee, so inviting, so intoxicating, so invigorating to your tired brain and hungry senses as the scent wafts up from???.your feet?
We all know coffee is a great stimulant to drink, sometimes even to eat (when it???s inflicting its jolting powers into ice cream, for instance), but it can have equally […]

Sounds awful, doesn’t it? Curry and coffee are not two flavors that I’d ever pair. But, when I read the award winning Insieme (Italian for Together) recipe for this funky mocha in Imbibe magazine, I thought I’d give it a try with my morning cup. Using a deep dark roasted Brazilian bean, […]

White sugar doesn???t contain calcium, phosphorous, iron or potassium. These nutrients are removed from table sugar during bleaching, a process that gives sugar the texture and color of dry snow. White sugar is monochromatic in flavor. It provides one sensation: Sweet. I use processed sugar when baking because its […]