One of my favorite beverages is coffee. After breakfast I brew a pot, and as I work from a home office, I enjoy refilling my cup throughout the morning. I am slightly particular about how my coffee is served, though. I like it with a pinch of sugar and some skim milk, and most importantly, I like my coffee to be piping hot. Although I like our coffee maker, once you have added some cold milk, the coffee just
isn’t hot enough for me.
Or at least, it wasn’t. …
My family loves olives. Well… at least I love olives. But I only like good olives, especially Kalamata olives. But the one thing that is always a turnoff is the whole spitting out of the pits. There
really is no nice way to handle this unpleasantness.
So on a recent shopping trip, we picked up a little gadget that helps alleviate some of this problem. The OXO Olive & Cherry Pitter is a nifty looking little piece of engineered kitchen gadgetry.
When…
I am a low-dose coffee addict. I don’t need to have an i.v. of coffee, but I definitely need my morning cup of coffee. I prefer to sip slowly on my hot beverage during the start of my workday. This leads to the problem of finding the perfect travel coffee mug. For a while, it seemed that finding this mug would be as hard as finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
I searched many a rainbow, looking for the elusive travel mug. There have been mugs made of different materials,…
A year or two ago, my two children, who were 7 and 9 at the time, slept over a friend’s house. For breakfast the next morning they were offered waffles. They thought it was a great idea until the waffles were taken out of a box in the freezer. At this point in their young lives they had never seen waffles that weren’t homemade. Needless to say, the waffle maker at my house is very well used.
I have owned…
It seems that wherever you go today you can find espresso-based drinks. What used to be found at only upscale bakeries and Italian restaurants, can now be found at gas stations and convenience stores. With such a surge in popularity, it makes sense that there are now many options for making lattes, cappuccinos, and espressos at home.
Having become a fan of lattes, I received a DeLonghi Espresso Maker a year ago. I found this to be the perfect home model for me. It was very reasonably priced, taking about 20 barista-made lattes to equal the…