A Nice Cuppa

One of the latest cooking trends is the use of tea in recipes. I have seen Ming Tsai prepare food using a tea smoking technique in his wok. I recently made the Junshan Chicken with Silver-Needle Tea recipe from Revolutionary Chinese Cooking by Fuchsia Dunlop which called for infusing a little bit of water with […]

Adorn Magazine calls itself “the crafty girl’s guide to embellishing life.” The Spring 2007 issue has a really cute feature on tea parties. They make it look like so much fun that I want to grab my art supplies and start creating! As a supplement to the magazine article, several web exclusive features are available […]

With coffee being the #1 drink in much of the world, there has to be an awful lot of coffee grounds out there going into the trash. What do you do with yours? From Badgetts’s Coffee Journal (www.aboutcoffee.net) a web site dedicated to all things coffee, comes some amazing and very handy tips.
Most people […]

Technology is amazing, and no more amazing than what can be developed that might look to make your life a whole lot easier. Take for instance, the commercial that shows our poor haggard housewife attempting to mash a whole mountain of potatoes; you know what she looks like….hair straggling over her flushed, overworked face, eyes […]

I am inspired by coffee cups. I have several different ones that remind me of a past vacation or a certain person. I like to select my coffee or tea cup each morning based on my mood. Last year I read Living Out Loud: Activities to Fuel a Creative Life by Keri Smith. It has […]

Bigelow’s Charleston Tea Plantation is America’s only working tea plantation. Beginning this year a new tour will be offered which will allow guests to travel throughout the plantation and see the thousands of historic tea bushes. On their ride, guests will be educated in how tea is planted, grown, nurtured and harvested. In addition to […]

Did I get your attention with the title?  Good!  This website sure got my attention when I found it today.  I’m talking about CoffeeAM.com, and no they did not contact me asking that I plug their site.  I wish, maybe then I would have gotten some free samples or at least a discount.  Even at […]

I’m constantly hearing something in the news that makes me say to myself, “What will they think of next?” But one beverage maker has gone a little too far in my opinion. ReDux Beverages of Las Vegas has created their own high-caffeine energy drink they’re calling Cocaine. The drink is sold in 8.4 oz cans […]

Peanut butter and bacon sandwiches. Fried Twinkies. Cheese on a stick. No doubt some of the hedonistic flavors and artery-destroyers that paint the culinary canvas of this nation are less than nutritionally ??? or palatably ??? sound.
But we???ve entered into entirely new territory. We???ve taken a junk food item so ubiquitous it […]

I currently own three different milk steaming pitchers. Given that I’m the only one in my house that really drinks coffee, this may seem a bit extreme. But in reality, I have three because I am on a quest to find the perfect pitcher to help compensate for my poor art pouring abilities. Let me […]