A Nice Cuppa

If Silk Soymilk is your cuppa and you shop at Stop & Shop in New Jersey, this is a tidbit for you. Silk Soymilk Chocolate Flavor in the 11-ounce single serving plastic bottles has been voluntarily recalled by WhiteWave Foods Company because it contains - ready for this? - milk protein.
The label failed to indicate […]

Spring has arrived! Spring Glorious Spring! There are so many occasions of divinity in life which may require a petite celebration. A milestone achieved is perfectly distinguished when enrobed in chocolate varnish. A secret admirer gives you chocolate to speak words only cocoa can articulate. On Valentines, chocolate is hallmarked by red foiled moulin rouge. […]

On a recent trip to South Africa I picked up a copy of the February issue of Fair Lady, a South African Women’s magazine. My favorite feature of the magazine was a regular column by food editor Nikki Wener. Entitled Kitchen Secrets, the column focuses on a different South African home kitchen each […]

Red tea, that is African Red Bush or Roobois, grown in the Cedarberg Mountains of South Africa is a delicious, robust yet gentle herbal tea power packed with electrolytes - zinc, manganese, alpha-hydroxy, magnesium, copper, iron, potassium, calcium — and vitamin C.
Great for replenishing electrolytes after a vigorous workout and to boost iron levels in […]

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 love the idea of a tea party. But I have two different images that I conjure up in my head. One is the playful tea party of a child with her dolls. And the other is a very formal tea party with a bunch of women in fancy clothes. I have never actually been […]

We all have read, heard or been told an amazing amount of wildly fluctuating information about the pitfalls and advantages of drinking coffee. One study leads us to believe that drinking coffee will cut our lives short, and then another study tells us of the powerful antioxidant potential in our morning cup of java. Decaf […]

Oriignally published on The Cook’s Kitchen by Matt Fisher.
Now that it has officially turned to non-stop sniffle season, my thoughts have turned to hot beverages, and tea is right near the top of my list. Hard to beat hot chocolate, though. Notwithstanding the powers of cocoa beans, few things soothe pounding sinuses and scratchy throats […]