A Nice Cuppa

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 […]

Steven Raichlen???s The Complete Illustrated Book of Barbecue Techniques originally inspired this roasted cabbage recipe, one of my favorite summer grill recipes for friends.
Over several preparations of this dish, I have made a few changes to the recipe, and this go around, I also wanted something to replace the fat of the half stick […]

One of the most common questions asked when serving up coffee is..
“How do you take yours?”
“With cream and sugar.” is the response of many Americans, but do you ever wonder how coffee drinkers in other countries drink theirs? Well, let’s take a little virtual trip around the globe.
Austria
In 1685, the very first […]

If I told you I???m not a huge chocolate fan, would you think less of me? All of my life, I have opted for anything creamy, buttery, and sugary when it came to dessert. I was a caramel kind of girl. Since caramel is sugar, butter, and cream, it makes sense. […]

If you’re like me, you’re constantly battling against the tide of food magazines that threaten to overwhelm your home. I have them in every place imaginable. On the coffee table, in the kitchen, by my bed, in the car … the list goes on and on.
I keep promising myself that one day I […]

Who wants to think about hot drinks when it is sweltering in most parts of the world? Not me that’s for sure. So I am always looking for new ways to enjoy my favorite hot beverages in the summer without feeling like I am going to melt. I created this recipe after […]

Though it’s probably a little known fact that June is National Iced Tea Month, it’s a very well known fact that summer makes many of us crave iced tea. Some of us make sun tea, some make moon tea by letting the tea bags steep in the refrigerator overnight, and the rest of us, […]