Monthly Archives: December 2008

I love biscotti.  I learned how to make it several years ago and, although I don’t make it nearly enough, it is much simpler than most people think…In fact..if you can make chocolate chip cookies you can make biscotti.

Once you have a basic recipe down then you can branch out and add things to it like nuts, chocolate, dried fruit, or whatever.

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So, it seems that drinking half a glass of  wine, eating four (not six, not two…but four) squares of chocolate or drinking a cup of tea increased the ability to remember things…especially in older people.

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With so much emphasis put on the slow food movement and eating locally, and I can tell you that I am a firm believer in that, is it possible to cafeinate locally when you live somewhere other than a coffee growing area?  How about tea?

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In case you ever wondered chocolate and coffee are the true comfort foods.  In fact, coffee and chocolate consumption is up over all, while consumers have chosen to deny themselves the other pleasures of life in the economical slump which seems to be occurring.

I say seems to be because I haven’t seen it.  The stores were packed all week and shoppers seemed to be carrying a fair number of bags.  Marc and I live very simply for the most part so what others tend to see as economic slow down is just business as usual for us.

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If you remember that Irish Spring commercial then you are old.

I remember it.

Ahem….Anyway the University of Barcelona has done a study on the effects of a strong cup of coffee on men and women.

For the study they used 668 volunteers.  This is odd.  Why not 670?  665? Nope.  668.  Healthy volunteers.

And I think it was weird they felt the need to say “healthy volunteers.”  I mean who chooses sick people to test coffee?

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…But it is still a very good coffee. Sulawesi Toraja is an Indonesian coffee bean with an unusual brightness for a coffee from that region.  It isn’t especially fragrant when you open the bag…In fact I was sort of disappointed because I like when that good coffee aroma fills the kitchen.

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Seriously.

I have recently found out that black tea is great for clearing up your vision.  And it works whether you actually drink it or not.

Intrigued?

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I have heard everywhere that burr ground coffee is so much better than blade ground that I decided to take a deep breath and get a burr grinder.  Actually it wasn’t that deep of a breath because I found it at Bed, Bath, and Beyond for a reasonable price.

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I am seriously going ot have to start ordering coffee since I think I have gone through all of the Starbucks coffees.  It stinks that I can’t pick up coffee locally because it makes it so much easier…I am sort of spontanious (read that unorganize) so it is hard with my time constraints to hunt down coffees.  Anyway..Just for you.I tried the Komodo Dragon Blend, from Indonesian grown beans.

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Here is another one..and you don’t need a code.  Adagio is offereing free gift wrap on any order and free shipping on orders over $50.  I will try to keep you updated as I come across things today. :)  Thier sample sizes make great stocking stuffers.

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