Category Archives: Coffee

Indulge Your Love for Lattes

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Latte LoveNine-Nutrient BoostMorning Pick-Me-UpOoh La Latte (Family Features) Starting off the day with a latte isn’t just a way to get a quick morning pick-me-up – it’s a way to get a quick boost of nutrients. A latte can deliver a full serving of milk’s nine essential nutrients, including calcium, vitamin D and potassium. It also has eight grams of high-quality protein in eight ounces – even more than an egg. Being your own barista lets you customize your morning latte – and save money. Here are some tips and latte recipes to help you get the day off to a great start. Tips for Steaming Milk Always start with cold milk. If using a steam wand, experiment with the depth of the wand and how close it is to the edge of the milk container. Where you place the wand affects the milk’s texture. It takes practice to get an even texture, so be patient and enjoy your experiments. If you don’t have a steam wand or milk frother, you can steam milk on the stove top. Put cold milk in a sauce pan – making sure there’s room for the foam. Put the stove burner on low heat. … Continue reading →

Quick Ways to Perk Up Your Day

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(Family Features) Let’s face it, between work deadlines, shuttling the kids back and forth to school and activities, and household chores, sometimes those to-do lists can be overwhelming. Here are a few quick tips to keep you moving throughout the day. Take time for a snack. A good assortment of snacks can help keep you going between meals. Keep a stash of easy, on-the-go items on hand so you don’t need to hit the vending machine or fast food drive through. Some ideas include whole fruits like bananas, apples, oranges or blueberries; yogurt; whole grain crackers and your favorite peanut butter; veggie sticks and hummus. Enjoy a cup of coffee. A short coffee break is a great way to help break up the day. Quick and convenient coffees, such as Folgers(r) Instant Coffee Crystals, in a newly redesigned ergonomic jar with an easy to open flip-top lid, make it even easier for coffee lovers to enjoy the rich, flavorful taste and aroma of Folgers Coffee no matter what the occasion. If you have a little more time during your coffee break, you can also enjoy an Iced Mocha Latte or Triple Berry Café Mocha – these recipes let you make … Continue reading →

Apron Free Cooking ~ Coffee Sauce

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Syndicated Column from the week of May 20, 2012. This article originally published in the Galion Inquirer on  May 23, 2012. By Noel Lizotte We’re cof­fee peo­ple at my house. I’d say it’s a slow day if we only go through a sin­gle pot of cof­fee. Often we’re a three pot per day fam­ily. No, there’s not a dozen of us in the house. Usu­ally there are two of us. Don’t worry, we drink our share of tea also. It’s just hard to mea­sure when you make and drink it a sin­gle cup at a time. Over the week­end, we went antiquing. We packed up our ther­mos of cof­fee and headed out. You know, we had our “to-go” cups already full for the first part of the trip. The ther­mos is for rein­force­ment and refills. When we enter an antique store, my hus­band and I go our sep­a­rate ways with the agree­ment we’ll meet up at the front reg­is­ter some­time before clos­ing time. I usu­ally park myself in front of the book case con­tain­ing cook­books and spend the major­ity of my time there. I don’t think my hus­band minds, since he usu­ally ben­e­fits from the results of those cookbooks. I … Continue reading →