Archive for the ‘food and beverage’ Category


My Adventure in Making Homemade Ice Cream

I’m not much of a cook and I don’t spend much time in the kitchen at all. But I do love to eat, and I admire those who can turn simple recipes into works of art. I’d just rather be on the receiving end than making these dishes myself. So I’ve never had any lifelong [...]

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The Best Gluten Free Coconut Bread Recipe

Do you have a gluten intolerance in your family?  Welcome to the exclusive club because you can eat your way around this intestinal disorder and be healthier despite the fact that the American diet revolves around wheat.  The Holiday Season is here.  Most of us are going to be invited to multiple parties with a [...]

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Finding The Best Coffee Pour Over Brewer

We have been experimenting with different pour over coffee brew apparatuses a lot lately – considering the massive influx of new competitors, now that single serving pour over coffee using this manual method is becoming so popular, it has been a very time consuming set of experiments.  We don’t mind though, coffee is what we [...]

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Finding the Best Manual Espresso Machine

Lately, my cat Cicero and I been shopping for a manual lever espresso machine – going into our research we knew almost nothing about it, but after a few weeks of perusing the internet, magazines, and asking lots of (what we hoped weren’t dumb) questions we’ve gained a lot of insight into the world of lever [...]

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How to Organize Your Deep Chest Freezer

In many households, owning just one refrigerator is not enough. Households with large families use more food items and ingredients than others, so they need more refrigerator and freezer storage. The usual free standing fridge freezers are just not enough, since they have very limited space available. The freezer compartment – for example – of [...]

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Coffee Roasting In A Hot Air Popper

It’s been over 7 years since I started roasting coffee in a hot air corn popper and I can tell you that there is no looking back.  I can count the number of cups of coffee that I have purchased at Starbuck’s and Peets on one hand since I started roasting coffee-2 cups.  What is [...]

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