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Showing posts with label coffee. Show all posts

Tuesday

Sweet Type of Coffee Recipes For You


By Susan S Smith

Hardly you can find sweet type of coffee recipes. I have tried very hard myself to look for this type of coffee recipes and hope you like it too. Something that is sweet but not too sweet, it is just nice for those like some have some sweet coffee to free up your free time.

First Coffee Recipe: Cinnamon with Sugar Latte Recipe
Looking for some sweet type of Latte Recipe, this recipes will be specially for you. Hope you like it too.

Ingredients
Enough for 1 person (tall glass)
1) 3 tablespoons of Cinnamon syrup
2) 1 tablespoon of Brown Sugar (This can be vary depending on how sweet you want your latte)
3) 1 shot of organic espresso
4) 0.75 cup of low fat steamed milk
5) 1 small tablespoon of Cinnamon brown sugar powder as garnish

Equipments Needed
Espresso maker and electronic blender

Steps for preparation:
1. First of all, you need an empty blender cup to put all the ingredients except Cinnamon brown sugar which we will be using later.

2. You also can add some ice if you like cold drink. Blend it with low speed for one minute until all evenly mixed.

3. When done, take an empty tall glass and pout your latter into the tall glass.

4. Lastly, spread the brown sugar powder on top of the latte as garnish.

5. You can enjoy your cup of latte now.
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Second Coffee Recipe: Classical Honey Better Latte Recipe
Something sweet and yet safe to drink latte recipe. My recommendation to you as I have tried this coffee and I do like it very much.

Ingredients
Enough for 1 person (just nice for one tall glass)
1) 2 tablespoons of honey butter
2) 1 shot of organic espresso
3) 0.75 cup of low fat steamed milk
4) 3 to 5 ice cubes

Equipments Needed
Espresso maker and electronic blender

Steps for preparation:
1. Put your ingredients into your blender cup and blend it for 50 to 60 seconds.

2. When done, take an empty glass and pour your blended latte into the tall glass.

3. Lastly, you can enjoy your latte now.

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Wednesday

Caffe Raro the world's most expensive cup of coffee



Want to indulge in some luxury coffee, in fact the world's most expensive cup of coffee then try Caffe Raro at a London department store. Created by internationally-renowned barista David Cooper and is a blend of Jamaican Blue Mountain and the exclusive Kopi Luwak bean.

The reason for this exclusive gourmet coffee to be so expensive £50 per cup, is its content Kopi Luwak, which is made from beans eaten, partly digested, and then expelled by the Indonesian civet cat. The cats, which live in the foliage of plantations across south-east Asia, are said to pick the best and ripest coffee berries.

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Friday

Top 3 Starbucks Coffee Drink Recipes


By Jake R Kelly

In 1971, Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegel, and Gordon Bowker opened the first Starbucks in Seattle, Washington. The business grew slowly, and even in 1992, there were only 165 Starbucks locations. The 1990s and 2000s saw explosive growth in the company, as they began opening new Starbucks locations every day of the year. Today, there are over 15,000 Starbucks' locations worldwide.

In recent years, increased competition has slowed the growth of Starbucks. Many customers are no longer willing to pay $4.00 for a cup of coffee. I recently started doing research on Starbucks Coffee Drink Recipes. I was impressed to find so many recipes floating around the internet. If you want to try to make Starbucks Coffee drink recipes at home, here are my Top 3 recommendations!

Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino

Ingredients

3 cups espresso coffee 3/4 cup sugar 4 cups milk 3/4 cup chocolate syrup whipped cream, for topping chocolate syrup, for topping

Directions

- Make coffee, follow directions for your favorite brand of espresso roast coffee. - Mix coffee, still hot, and sugar in your mixer until sugar is dissolved. - Add milk and chocolate syrup and continue mixing, about one minute. - Pour mix into a sealable container for easy storage. - Store in fridge until ready to use (Note: Do not store any longer than you would milk). - To make drink, combine equal parts mix and ice in a blender and blend on high until smooth. - Pour into glasses. - Top each glass with whipped cream and drizzle with chocolate syrup. - Serve.

Starbucks Pumpkin Spiced Latte

Ingredients

1 cup half-and-half 3 tablespoons canned pumpkin 1/2 cup strong brewed hot coffee 3 tablespoons sugar pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, and nutmeg to taste

Directions

- Combine half-and-half and canned pumpkin in a saucepan, place over medium heat and stir constantly. Heat until boiling but not burnt. - Remove the mixture and pour into a blender. Whip in high speed for 20 seconds. - Pour the mixture in a large cup, add coffee, stir in sugar, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Enjoy!

Starbucks White Chocolate Mocha

Ingredients

2/3 cup whole milk 6 tablespoons white chocolate chips coffee whipped cream

Directions

- Add milk and chocolate chips to saucepan and heat until chips are melted. - Meanwhile make coffee in espresso machine. - Pour half of milk mixture in coffee mug and fill rest of mug with coffee saving enough room for a dollop of whipped cream.

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Thursday

Coffee Facts and Gourmet Coffee Figures


Author: George Moore

Some great gourmet coffee trivia:

* The Boston Tea Party was planned in a coffee house - the Green Dragon Coffee House

* One Coffee Tree or plant in its normal harvest will produce enough coffee cherries to make one pound of coffee bean

* 27% of U.S. coffee drinkers and 43% of German drinkers add a sweetener to their coffee.

* The world's largest coffee producer is Brazil with over 3,970 million coffee trees. Colombia produces alot of gourmet coffee for its size - coming in second in the world with around two thirds of Brazil's production of gourmet coffee.

* Hard bean means the coffee was grown at an altitude above 5000 feet.

* Arabica and Robusta trees can produce crops for 20 to 30 years under proper conditions and care.

* Most coffee is transported by ships. Currently there are approximately 2,200 ships involved in transporting the beans each year.

* In Turkey a husband who refused to provide his wife with a mocha latte could be divorced by her!

Next to the United States Germany is the world's second largest consumer of coffee in terms of volume at 16 pounds per person. Second to the United States at 19 pounds per person.

* Over 53 countries grow coffee worldwide, but all of them lie along the equator between the tropic of Cancer and Capricorn.

* An acre of coffee trees can produce up to 10,000 pounds of coffee cherries. That amounts to approximately 2,000 pounds of beans after hulling or milling.

* The percolator was invented in 1827 by a French man. It would boil the gourmet coffee producing a bitter tasting brew - alot like Starbucks coffee today. Today most people use the drip or filtered method to brew their gourmet coffee.

* With the exception of Hawaii and Puerto Rico, no coffee is grown in the United States or its territories.

Cowboys use to roast coffee over an open fire. It wasn't until the 70's that batch roasting became popular.

* Each year some 7 million tons of green beans are produced world wide. Most of which is hand picked.

* The popular trend towards flavored coffees originated in the United States during the 1970's.

* October 1st is the official Gourmet Coffee Day in Japan.

* The first coffee tree in the Western Hemisphere was brought from France to the Island of Martinique in the 1720's

* China drinks 70 times as much tea as coffee

* Coffee trees are not grown anywhere in the continental US but can be found in Hawaii. Due to the high costs of land the coffee is sold at quite the premium falsely convincing people it is a premium grade coffee

* Coffee beans can be eaten raw or raw in chocolate - deliverying twice the punch and caffeine as brewed coffee

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Wednesday

Best of the Best - Kopi Luwak Coffee

By Chris Cornell

Like many prized items, some coffees are rare. There are many factors affecting the limited availability of certain types of coffee beans. They include geographical factors, climate changes and in one particular case, the method of processing. Kopi Luwak coffee is unique and like no other. It is labeled as the most expensive coffee in the world due to its highly controversial method of production as well as the rarity of the beans. Sourced from Sumatran region of Indonesia, many coffee connoisseurs claim that this is a must-try.

The beans are in fact deposits from a type of animal called palm civet. Among others, civets enjoy consuming red coffee cherries. They are careful to select only the ripest, reddest cherries. In the process of consumption, the inner seed of the berries are not consumed. However, the action of stomach enzyme on the seed gives it a bitter, complex taste. When defecated, locals will collect the beans for washing. The beans are then roasted lightly to significantly reduce its bitterness and retain the complex flavors. The beans are safe for consumption as they have undergone thorough processing prior to packing.

A sip of this drink will leave you intrigued. It is rich and exotic in flavor. It also possesses a musty, earthy taste with a slight hint of syrupy smoothness. The fact that the beans originate from an animal is a unique factor to consider. Many experts agree that this gives it an unidentifiable taste that's unique to Kopi Luwak coffee alone. It is a rare offering and often not available in local coffee shops. However, for those curious enough, you will be able to purchase them from reputable coffee company online or specialized local gourmet coffee shops.

Though perceived to be highly overpriced by some, there is no other way to justify this drink other than to try it out. It is an experience like no other.

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Top 10 Mistakes Making Turkish Coffee


By Karolos Tsiligirian

Turkish coffee is one of the simplest ways to make delicious coffee. This is a guide to help you avoid the most common mistakes when making Turkish coffee.

Using the wrong proportion

One of the most common mistakes is using the wrong proportion of coffee to water. If you use too much water or too much coffee the result will not be drinkable! The most common rule is one demitasse cup of water with one teaspoon of coffee. If you want your coffee strong you can use two teaspoons but don't use more...

Using the wrong grind

In order to make Turkish coffee you must use very fine ground coffee. If you use coarser coffee then you will not be able to extract the delicate coffee flavours. You will also fail to create the special coffee foam on top which is highly prized in many Middle East and Balkan countries. This special foam resembles the espresso crema and it is known as kaimaki in Greece. So, make sure that you use very fine ground coffee.

If you want to grind your own coffee, use a high quality burr grinder (manual or electrical). You can also use a mortar and pestle.

Boiling coffee

You must use a Turkish coffee pot to prepare the coffee. Stir the coffee with the sugar a bit to help them mix with the water.

After you light up the fire and you start heating the coffee in the pot, it is very important to watch carefully as the coffee comes slowly to a boil. It's imperative that you don't let it boil!

If it boils then the coffee will get bitter and flat tasting. In order to make delicious Turkish coffee, you must stop the heating when the coffee mixture comes ALMOST to a boil.

At this special moment, the coffee foam forms a ring on top. This foam ring slowly increases in size, closes the gap on top and then the coffee starts rising. As soon as the foam ring closes the gap on top and starts rising out must stop the heating. If you fail to do this it will boil and the flavour will get destroyed. So, just be careful and take it slow!

Bringing to boil more than 3 times

There are some people who prefer to bring the coffee to almost boil more than once. I find this a loss of time and sometimes it can also lead to a loss of quality. Bringing the coffee to almost boil more than 3 times is an exaggeration!

Adding sugar after the boiling

If you want your coffee medium sweet add one teaspoon of sugar for every teaspoon of coffee. If you want your coffee sweet double the amount of sugar. It is important to put the sugar before the heating, to optimize the flavour. The sugar melts and becomes one with the coffee in your mouth.

Using the wrong size pot

In order to make 2 demitasse cups of coffee use a coffee pot (ibrik or cezve) that holds 3 demitasse cups of coffee. You can also measure the capacity of the pot using water. The extra cup is counted to facilitate the whole stirring and foaming process.

Now, you may ask:

"Why can't I use a 5 cup size coffee pot to make 2 cups of coffee? The bigger the better!"

Unfortunately it's not like that!

You see... if you use a much bigger coffee pot this makes the coffee foam creation rather hard. The shape of the coffee pot (conical) facilitates the creation of a special oven like effect that makes the foaming much easier and more precise.

If you use a very big coffee pot then it will be hard to make a nice foam on top of the Turkish coffee. Just try it and you will see the difference!

Using hot water to make it faster

There are many professionals who start with hot water in order to make Turkish coffee faster. Actually they have big boilers and when a customer asks for a cup of Turkish coffee, they pour hot water from the boiler inside their coffee pot, they put coffee and sugar and they boil the whole thing as fast as possible!

The result as you may guess is the destruction of all the delicate coffee flavour. This is because of basic physics and chemistry... hot water (90 C degrees or higher) interacts with the coffee and then as if this is not enough you boil the coffee some more!!!

So just use cold coffee and don't rush. Your taste buds will thank you!

Pouring fast and sloppily

When the heating is done pour the coffee slowly in order to retain the foam on top. If you do it quickly the foam may break apart.

Not letting the coffee settle a bit after serving

After you serve the coffee, the small coffee grounds float everywhere in the cup. Just let them settle for a couple of minutes (except if you like eating coffee :-) )

Not taking enough time to enjoy!

This is in my opinion the greatest mistake of all. We live in very quickly paced timed, full of stress.

Why should you also be in a hurry when drinking your Turkish coffee? Relax! Take a small sip, lay back and enjoy! Share what you learned with your friends and offer them a cup of coffee too, won't you?

Enjoy!

Karolos Tsiligirian is the author of the "Fresh Coffee Encyclopedia" and the owner of FreshCoffeeShop.com

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Thursday

Coffee Aroma - The Odor of Distinction

By Carl Da Costa

Whether you are an avid coffee lover or not most people enjoy coffee aroma. It just seems to have such a distinct odor all of its own that, there seems to be no likeness to it. Actually, there is a great deal of significance when in comes to the aroma of this world-renowned and most flavored beverage.

First, one must distinguish the coffee aroma from that which the taste buds create. This is the bitter or sweet tastes one experiences with coffee. One of the factors to determine whether the quality of the coffee is good is through its aroma.

When one brews a pot of high quality gourmet coffee, it permeates throughout the entire house. On the other hand, one never would have this same effect by making a cup of instant coffee or even ten cups. The reason for this is because the instant coffee no longer possesses any of the characteristics that create the aroma.

Some people may not realize that there is actually two ways that you can smell coffee. Of course, one is the conventional way, which both drinkers and non-drinkers of the substance experience, then a second way for those who do consume it. This second way is called retronasal perception. It can only take place during the time the coffee is in the mouth or just after swallowing it. Basically what it is comes down to the coffee aroma responsible compounds of the coffee rise up to towards the nasal passage.

The aroma that you enjoy today will not be the same as what you had last year or what you will get next year. Coffee Aroma are constantly changing because of the compounds that the coffee have.

So far, out methods of odor detection as allowed the capabilities of identifying over 800 elements of coffee interactions. It is suspected that there is only a small group of components that are responsible for the aromas but it their high level of concentration that makes it so distinct.

Many individuals are not only after for the taste of the coffee but the aroma as well that's why studies are done about coffee aroma. Putting the science issues to rest though one has to admit that everyone that enjoys coffee seems to also have their own select choice of coffee aroma themselves. They will automatically go for the brew to which they find the aroma the most pleasing. It would be somewhat unusual to see an individual pour a cup of coffee from a pot that they did not find the aroma pleasant.

So basically like everything else there is about coffee, such as the taste and looks the aroma once again comes down to pure simple personal taste.

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