Posted in New Coffee, Recipes, Tips, tagged boldgrain, chocolate, ethiopia, harrar, iced coffee, mocha java "harrar style", raspberry on June 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Another iced coffee recipe that people seemed to like:
Brew up one liter or so of Mocha Java “Harrar Style”, or some straight Ethiopian Harrar Boldgrain - substitute other coffees with fruit notes, maybe a Costa Rica if necessary. Add a couple tablespoons of chocolate syrup; Hershey’s will work. Add a quarter cup of [...]
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We sampled an orange-infused iced coffee today, and people asked for the recipe:
Brew a liter (or so) of Ethiopia Yirgacheffe. You need a light citrusy coffee, others may do if you feel they have the right flavor profile. While the coffee is still hot, slice up an orange and throw the slices in the hot [...]
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Posted in Farmers' Market, Green, Loco for Locavores, Recipes, real food, tagged amanda shaw, burrito, chirmolito, flying mayan, gulf rim cafe, hillsborough nc, local food, real food, vegetarian on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s not what you think…
It all started with coffee. At the Gulf Rim Cafe, in Hillsborough, NC, Andrea and Joe are Louisiana natives, and they serve the blend we made especially for them as the house coffee. On Saturday they needed more coffee, and I had a family that needed dinner. How convenient. There are [...]
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Posted in Farmers' Market, Green, Loco for Locavores, Organic, Recipes, Tips, real food, tagged espresso, Farmers' Market, real food on April 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I hear three complaints about real food that drive me nuts:
1. It’s not affordable
2. It takes too long to prepare
3. You need to be a good cook to make it appealing
So while pulling together dinner tonight, a regular Monday night with work and kid activities, it occurred to me that the meal [...]
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I promised some recipes from yesterday’s market haul. I was tempted to skip this post, thinking it to be in the category of “preaching to the choir”. But this morning I attended a planning meeting for Slow Food Triangle, where I learned from others’ experiences that sharing ideas on how to use fresh [...]
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Posted in Loco for Locavores, Organic, Recipes, Trade Shows, rants, real food, road coffee, roasting, small business, travels, tagged cream sauce, local food, locavore, old city coffee, pasta, philadelphia, reading terminal market, real food, recipe on March 28, 2008 | 11 Comments »
And so it was in the City of Brotherly Love for me this week. I expected Philadelphia to be a coffee Mecca, given the large Italian influence on the place. Well, maybe not Mecca, exactly, that would be Seattle. But I expected a decent espresso. Turned out to be [...]
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Posted in Recipes, tagged Coffee, espresso, cappuccino, chocolate, hot pepper, cayenne, vosges, la perruce, ibarra, maple view farm, milk, pottery, barista on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Admittedly, I’m not much of a barista. Chef, yes. Baker - sometimes. Barista, not so much. My favorite fix is usually a straight ristretto (or three) of Cafe Terrace. When I’m cupping a lot, sometimes I’m inclined to pull out a vacuum pot to brew up an exquisite Yirgacheffe. [...]
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