A Nice Cuppa

Whenever my parents visit me in New York, my mother and I branch off from my father for a day filled with shopping and eating. We rejoin him each evening for dinner where we try in earnest to eat, but aren???t very convincing. Though we???ve never revealed the secret behind our full bellies, […]

Matcha, green tea powder, is one of those magical ingredients that can wake up any standard dessert recipe and suddenly make it exotic and novel. Blogging bakers and cooks out there certainly know this secret, and there are scores of fantastic recipes illustrated with its brilliant green hue, like these from some of my favorites:
Keiko, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Until recently, the only things I knew about Delaware were my sister-in-law was raised there, the Duponts reside there and major corporations are headquartered there. I had heard about the beaches from friends, but had never really spent any time there. Then my grandmother purchased a house along the peninsula in Bethany Beach. […]

Last weekend I happened to be wandering around SFPride???s street festival, when a woman handed me a free sample of a new kind of ice cream sandwich. Biscotti layered with chocolate surrounded super-creamy mint chip ice cream. I devoured the treat, made a note of the name Blisscotti and went about my business.
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Starbucks has trotted out two new Frappuccino blended beverages and an iced coffee drink to help drinkers beat the heat of the summer. These drinks debuted this week.
The first of the two new Frappuccino drinks, which both consist of Tazo Tea and fruit juice, is the Pomegranate Frappuccino juice blend. Starbucks describes this […]