helo ppl...ok so here goes the first one..
owlbow likes his cofee light n sweet..
though i am not too good at it but i have been hearing tales from my mom about the way they used to do it...spending hours n hours just beating the cofee with sum milk till it was all froth n double the original quantity...thats the way i like it ..loads of froth(mayb a lil cream too) at the top which i can just lick..yumm
looking forward to some yummy replies...KITS!!
Hi and welcome, May. I'm having trouble reading some of your text-message style posts. And what does KITS stand for? Thanks.
In my teens I drank my coffee double-double. When I was in third year at U of Toronto, living in married students' residence, another young woman and I went out to her mom's place to make use of her canning kettle. Hani (Jane's mom) was just serving breakfast when we arrived, VERY early, and offered us coffee. She carefully poured me half a cup, and I thought "If there isn't enough coffee, I don't need any" but hadn't had time to voice this thought before she came around with the hot milk. And I was IN LOVE! No more double-double for this girl! - from double-double to half-and-half strong coffee and hot milk. And I still like it best like that. That's what a latte is, although that's not what Jane called it.
I also like foamed milk with a little grated dark chocolate on top of the coffee. Oh, and my friend Carol's homemade biscotti.....
I'm of the opinion that anything sweet put into, on, around, or next to in your mouth completely masks the subtle, *actual flavor coffee has to offee.
dollop of half-and-half for me. couple of cups every morning. I get caffeine withdrawal headaches (major) if I don't get it.
hmmmmm..would that be an addiction?? i think so much coffee isnt good for the heart!! please be careful..KITS!!
> addiction
no question, but I know people who drink a lot more coffee than I do. I try to be careful with my caffeine intake.
Chocolate too? I may not be able to control myself. Speaking of sweet... after seeing the movie Chocolat with Juliette Binoche, I went on a web search for a good chocolate/hot pepper drink recipe. I found a few promising ones, but for safety's sake, I am waiting for the weather to chill down and the wood stove to warm up before I try them. When I can, I like warming things on the cast iron of the stove rather than the electric stove. I understand that a version of the drink was important to the Maya and Aztecs cultures.
As far as coffee... here's an opinion that I share:
Ink Spots, Java Jive About an eon and a half ago, when I was a Cub Scout, our Den Mother taught us to sing this song.
They've Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil This is a Rosemary Clooney site, but we learned it from a Frank Sinatra 78. We had electricity, so we didn't have to crank the record player. It was part of a skit. Each Den performed one having to do with a different country. At the time, I had yet to have a coffee, but have made up for it since.
Salute!
bty: Is there a more apropos toast when drinking coffee?
A really well-made ristretto is unbeatable, imo. Pehaps with a small slab of dark (70%+) chocolate as accompaniment.
And in yours TEd - thank you.
For me, coffee and chocolate are of the class of things that serve to enhance the sweet experience.
and yes, I do have many cavities
personally, I take my dark chocolate with a nice pale ale.
chocolate cake, yes, yum yum.
but plain chocolate? i have no real interest. my chocolate chips (stored in a lightproof, air tight container, in a cool place) all get a bloom of cocoa butter before i use them up.
(otherwise, it Baker's unsweetened, and semi-sweet, and now even Baker's White choclate in the cabinet with baking supplies, quietly waiting for their chance to be incorporated into brownies or cake (complete with ganache filling, chocolate frosting, (and often, garnished with blanced almonds, dipped in chocolate) --i realy like chocolate chocolate cake!
(i like a nice mole sauce too,)
unsweetend chocolate, chunked, with a small quanity of suger, and a tablespoon of cocoa powder in a blender, becomes wonder hot chocolate with the addition of boiling water, (no milk or cream) the blender makes the chocoate nice and frothy..
There is no such thing as "white chocolate," he harrumphed.
I take tea to the adult discussion group every Sunday and when I realized that one couple preferred coffee i started taking a thermos of coffee as well. They were appreciative but since I don't drink it I make coffee badly. I asked for advice and each week got a friendly critique: use finer grounds, make it stronger or whatever.
One week Ronda said "This is perfect. You've finally got the coffee just right. Whatever you did this morning keep doing it just the same way."
So I do - I stop at 7-eleven every morning and buy a thermosful of coffee.
PS I vote with the padre, "white chocolate" is a contradiction in terms.
Welcome, Zed, to membership in the NAACP -- the National Association of Actual-Chocolate Purists -- which entitles you to all of the benefits (including recently discovered anti-oxidant benefits) of real chocolate. Accept no substitutes. And emblazon your tunic with our motto: "Chocolat ou mort".
On a cold wintry night a really nice drink is hot chocolate with a shot of Bailey's Irish cream with an optional shot of coffee liqueur.
As for morning coffee, I like a "red eye," a shot of espresso added to a cup of coffee; I take it with cream and sugar. Lacking an epsresso machine at home, I just make the coffee absurdly strong.
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Welcome, Zed, to membership in the NAACP -- the National Association of Actual-Chocolate Purists -- which entitles you to all of the benefits (including recently discovered anti-oxidant benefits) of real chocolate. Accept no substitutes. And emblazon your tunic with our motto: "Chocolat ou mort".
No poncey FMSdRese for me, I'll stick with the simple "death before decaf"
They call it "white chocolate", but it lacks all the necessary ingredients - like 300 psychoactives. Sigh. Can anyone suggest another name? Me for the 75%+ dark stuff. I take Paxil, but when I'm having a really bad day, I break a square off the 85% cocoa bar I keep in the freezer. It helps a lot.
As for decaf, what's the point?
Cocoa made with a square of bitter chocolate in boiling water and a little chili pepper, but not milk or sugar, good.
Milk, bad.
Weak coffee silly. And usually annoying.
And decaf? The word says it all. "'De-caf': go away, this ain't coffee."
What do they do with all that caffeine, anyway?
Very nice cappuccino can be made with a $1 cheese strainer. But it contains milk.
heyy...cocoa, bitter choc n pepper...n that too without any milk or sugar!!!..that would taste ..i dont know what
i have this oh so swwet tooth..so i need lots of sugar in my coffeee.. n yes even i have lots of cavities...i even had braces some time back so the cavities were pretty deep..but heyy this doesnt mean no sweets for me..
n choclate ... i love liquor choclates with that lil liquid in the centre.. n also the nutty ones ..mayb smthing like 'Ferrore Rochere'. choclate cookies are just too good to resist ....one can just keep the whole box on the table n go on n on n on....
heyy Anna..sorry about that..i am in the too much in the habit of text messaging so mayb thats why....but i will keep this in mind...
n yaa...KITS doesnt stand for anything ..its my nickname...my actual name is Ketki which is kinda difficult to pronounce so my friends have given me this nick..i like it!! hope u also do
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What do they do with all that caffeine, anyway?
I'm not sure *how they do it but they sell it to pharmaceutical companies to use in a drugs that would otherwise put you to sleep.
Understood, Kits, and maybe you could learn to separate the two styles -- standard and text-msg -- thinking of them as two dialects or something (says the former ESL teacher). Is English your native language?
As for coffee, my favorite (affordable) is Brazilian. Colombian is too acidic. Usually with a dollop of white and a tiny bit of sugar, unless it's a Brazilian estate, then I drink it black. And I like the roast somewhere between Folger's (too wimpy) and Starbucks (too burnt).
re: bad for health -- I don't think there's any real evidence that coffee is bad for you, except that it is addictive.
re: decanting -- I've always wanted to build a centrifuge to do this, or chance across some old piece of lab equipment.
re: misc. methods -- I've also thought it would be fun to set up a vacuum flask for brewing something like espresso.
Wandering through the coffee link someone posted, I found out that my coffeemaker is called a Vesuvio and works with steam! I'd never stopped to think about the method, I confess. We call it "Italian coffeemaker", and it's more or less the regular stovetop coffeemaker in Spain, although more and more people have electric ones now.
So, definitely Vesuvio coffee for me, with a bit of hot milk. As for chocolate, black and organic is what I like best. 70% works just fine!
I am very intrigued by those "chocolate and hot pepper" drinks y'all have been mentioning, and thinking I'd like to try that. Any recipes you might care to share, here or by PM?
well, I'm back from the funicular...
Vesuviobe sure to read the rest of the page, too.
Yummy. I'm going to drink all the coffee. Buyer beware.
(Warning: bilingual pun inherent in above statement.)
Thank you, etaoin, for posting that link!
Coffee, coffee everywhere and never a drop to drink.
I plan to start the Tea Drinkers Liberation Front. First up against the wall will be the heretics at conferences who take an urn, which was used for coffee yesterday, rinse it once and fill it with "hot" water for tea. BLEAH!
Next to go will be the waiters who bring you a little tin teapot and don't tell you that they have hidden the teabag behind it instead of putting it inside. That way by the time you think the tea has steeped it's too late to start.
TEA DRINKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!!
Rebel against the coffee conspiracy.
LEAVES NOT BEANS!
pardon me, I need to go have a cuppa and a lie-down.
Zed:
This bud's for you.
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Nice rant,Zed. While I still won't touch tea made the anglo way, I have developed a real fondness for chai, and now have to remember not to impose on my Indian friends kindness by asking for it at every opportunity.
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Coffee, coffee everywhere and never a drop to drink.
I plan to start the Tea Drinkers Liberation Front. First up against the wall will be the heretics at conferences who take an urn, which was used for coffee yesterday, rinse it once and fill it with "hot" water for tea. BLEAH!
Next to go will be the waiters who bring you a little tin teapot and don't tell you that they have hidden the teabag behind it instead of putting it inside. That way by the time you think the tea has steeped it's too late to start.
TEA DRINKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!!
Rebel against the coffee conspiracy.
LEAVES NOT BEANS!
pardon me, I need to go have a cuppa and a lie-down.
Tea is very nice
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too good
for me
hmm...i dont know ..i have always considered Tea to be an 'adult's drink'...so i dont have much inclination for it.
coffee is something i can relate to...u knw ..having cups of coffee n studying late in the night....that wayss..
Mmmm. A rich cup of coffee in the morning gets the day started off well. I prefer the rounder-tasting coffees to the acidic varieties.
Father Steve, a good white chocolate is made from cocoa butter, a rich butter extracted from the cocoa beans when they are processed to get the chocolate liqueur. Since the product does come from the cocoa bean, I’m not sure how we can object to the name.
Unless you’re talking about those white pretend things, that have no cocoa butter in them at all (or the cocoa butter is dead last on the ingredient list), then, I agree that it can’t be called white chocolate. The name we have to use here is “confectionary”. Even that word is too pretty for that cr*p.
P.S. Have you ever visited a chocolate processor when they are roasting the beans…oh my god but it can put you off of your lunch. Imagine a sweating person who’s been exercising every day, hasn’t washed in four or five weeks and is standing in scorching sun, with a winter coat and scarf. That’s the smell.
Whenever we have somebody visit the plant, we make sure that we are not roasting beans when they come to visit. On non-roasting days though, the whole city smells of rich, warm chocolate – heavenly!
heyy people...i just read about the world's most expensive coffee beans which are taken from the excretment of a cat....will write more about it in my next post...gotta go abhi...i mean now...byee
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heyy people...i just read about the world's most expensive coffee beans which are taken from the excretment of a cat....will write more about it in my next post...gotta go abhi...i mean now...byee
I was once a part of a community access TV show that did spoofs of everything we could think of. We did a spoof of the spring-the-cheap-brand-coffee-on-the-patrons-of-the-fancy-restaurant commercial one time, getting the customers to agree that it was excellent tasting coffee only to tell them it was made from recycled cat litter. That was before we heard of kopi luwak.
Check it out here
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heyy people...i just read about the world's most expensive coffee beans which are taken from the excretment of a cat....will write more about it in my next post...gotta go abhi...i mean now...byee
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Just the thing to give your sweetie on
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I am very intrigued by those "chocolate and hot pepper" drinks y'all have been mentioning, and thinking I'd like to try that. Any recipes you might care to share, here or by PM?
I think this was popular in Mexico City in the earlier 15th Century, but I had my sample from a friend who brought some bitter chocolate back with her from Columbia. I, too, wanted more, but there was none left to have, and she didn't know how to find it.
she didn't know how to find it. Mayan Hot Chocolate
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heyy ....yup it is the Sumatran Kopi Luwak which sells for $600 for a little less than a kg. that's because less than 227kg of this premium coffee is available every year, the beans collected as they are from the excrement of the Sumatran Civet cat which lives in the mountain ranges of Irian Jaya in Indonesia. the civet climbs into the coffee trees and eats the ripest coffee cherries it can find. eventually, these are digested and reappear in the cat's excrement, after which they are gathered by the locals and sold as coffee...gross!!!
i am too happy with my Nescafe..
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heyy people...i just read about the world's most expensive coffee beans which are taken from the excretment of a cat....will write more about it in my next post...gotta go abhi...i mean now...byee
Litteraly?
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sorry but i didnt quite get the above "pun"....kindly explain Ted..
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I never thought I'd live to see the day [/fanning self]
What, that TEd would come up with a good pun? He's done it before on occasion.
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heyy people...i just read about the world's most expensive coffee beans which are taken from the excretment of a cat....will write more about it in my next post...gotta go abhi...i mean now...byee
Litteraly?
Almost adroitly joining two threads
sorry but i didnt quite get the above "pun"....kindly explain Ted..
Far be it from me to try to explain TEd, but the pun is on "literally," as discussed somewhere or other here recently, an "kitty *litter*" which house-bound kitty cats are compelled, by their masters, to poop in.
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heyy ....yup it is the Sumatran Kopi Luwak which sells for $600 for a little less than a kg. that's because less than 227kg of this premium coffee is available every year, the beans collected as they are from the excrement of the Sumatran Civet cat which lives in the mountain ranges of Irian Jaya in Indonesia.
I don't doubt that kopi luwak exists but geographically, this seems most improbable as Sumatra and Irian Jaya are at the opposite ends of Indonesia. In US terms it would be like saying collected from the Appalachian mountain cat in Alaska.
Also the Wallace Line separating typically Asian wildlife from typically Australian wildlife runs through the middle of Indonesia between Kalimantan and Sulawesi in the North and Bali and Lombok in the South. Although there is a transitional zone, Sumatra and Irian are well to the West and East of it respectively.
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I never thought I'd live to see the day [/fanning self]
What, that TEd would come up with a good pun? He's done it before on occasion.
No, duh. That Faldage would appreciate a pun.
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Litteraly?
Almost adroitly joining two threads
And a good pun, too! (e.a.)
I never thought I'd live to see the day [/fanning self]
What, that TEd would come up with a good pun? He's done it before on occasion.
No, duh. That Faldage would appreciate a pun.
Oh I appreciate a good pun. It's just they're pretty rare around here. What's remarkable is that I'd recognize the pun.
The smell of cocoa beans roasting may be nasty, but the smell of coffee beans roasting is fabulous. There is a cafe here in Lexington attached to a coffee importing business. Often they are roasting beans in the back and not only is the smell great, the freshly-roasted and ground coffee has a lot more flavor to it than packaged coffee. It has a fruity, almost sweet flavor that's absent from Starbucks, etc.
Geez this thread is gonna have me playing hookie from work to get a fix.
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It has a fruity, almost sweet flavor that's absent from Starbucks, etc.
The coffee in Costa Rica was always sweet, so much so that I once asked if they'd put sugar in it (not using the stuff in coffee myself). They told me they hadn't. None of the Costa Rican stuff I trid around here is the same. But there, there . . . it is.
helo..
sorry guys for breaking the continuity here, but there's something i had to say...
being new on this forum i was kind of apprehensive when i had started this thread...more so with this being a non-word related one. i wasnt sure whether people would participate here or not...but heyy..am really glad to see u all taking interest here. wow ...am delighted that my first ever thread on this forum has reached 6 pages ....thanku all for posting here..n ya ..keep posting..have fun...KITS...
Hello May.
If you go to My Home, click on Edit Display Preferences, and change the total parent posts to 99, you won't have to change pages every 10 posts. That tends to make reading easier.
Paz
This has to be one of the greatest ploys in the history of marketing.
And proves what my father once told me. A delicacy is food that you wouldn't eat unless you were starving - or unless you got charged a huge amount of money for the privilege of eating it.
e.g. fish eggs, snails, fish so poisonous that one bite could kill you and chocolate covered grasshoppers.
(I haven't tried the fugu but the others are quite good if you don't think about it)