Custom Flavored Coffee: Your Choice, The Right Choice

Custom Flavored Coffee: Your Choice, The Right Choice

by: Tana Ticer

Nothing beats a good specialty coffee. The beautiful thing is that you can create your own! Go ahead; explore; sit back; examine the phenomenon of custom flavored coffee. First, we will explore the creation of those awesome raw coffee beans known as green coffee beans. Green coffee beans are used to create a scrumptious tasting creation of personal choice. What can be said but mmm, mmm, delicious!In a world filling quickly with choices and customization, a wise decision was creating custom flavored coffee. All the retailer has to offer is a list of syrups and flavorings; add coffee beans; roast. Then you have one delicious, custom-made coffee bean perfect for personal and/or small business use. Of course, people love the chance to have a say in the creation of their beloved coffee. Sitting around and relaxing has taken a whole new meaning. Most customization of coffee beans is started with the manufacturer. Coffee bean manufacturers start with green coffee beans and ship them directly to the consumer or to the coffee bean retailer. After shipping, the coffee beans are handled with care and precision to insure the high quality of the coffee bean is preserved. Custom flavored coffee beans are only a short step away. The process of creating a custom flavored coffee bean is not as difficult as may seem evident. The roaster for the custom flavored coffee bean process is usually an inexpensive store bought machine or can be a slightly more expensive commercial brand. Any machine you choose must be fit for your needs and desires. You can get specialized flavorings and additives to add to your roasting coffee beans to suit your tastes and preferences. Of course, preferences is what it is all about. Custom flavored coffee fits every persons lifestyles regardless of personal tastes and style. Why? Because coffee retailers care about you… And your business. With over $50 billion annually being spent on coffee and coffee related merchandise, coffee retailers want your business. They want your long term loyalty; by providing you with custom flavored coffee beans, they gain your respect and stomach. You know the old saying. The way to win a person’s heart is through their stomach. Don’t like coffee? Never fear! There are many coffee syrups and flavorings that make a great addition to milk, tea, and let’s not forget adding them to baked goods! Custom flavored coffee is a popular customizable addition to any coffee connoisseurs coffee routine. With the added benefit of your own creation of blends and flavors, your coffee can be named anyway you want it to be named. Who cares if you love that blended coffee.

About the Author

Tana Ticer has been an avid coffee and tea drinker her whole life. She has tried more than 100 different varieties of coffee and tea. At her site http://www.thelittleteahouse.com, Tana reveals to you her delicious secret blends of coffee and tea that she has experienced through her years

Summer’s Nutrition, Seafood – Fishes

Summer’s Nutrition, Seafood – Fishes
by: Stelios

SEAFOOD – FISHES
Here some useful information when you buy or eat fish

How can you tell if they are fresh:

Eyes: They must extend and they must be transparent

Smell: It must be light and pleasant

Branchia: They must be wet and intensively red

Fish scale: They have to be smooth and easily removed.

Fish: It has to be tight

BEFORE EATING THEM AT THE TAVERN

Pick out those you want to eat

Avoid eating fried food/fish because it’s really difficult to distinguish the quality of the oil

Ask for seafood that is served warm. You have more possibilities to taste something which is not kept in the fridge.

Order fish that you can distinguish at least visually. Thus, you will know that you pay for what you’ve ordered.

IN ORDER NOT TO PAY …………THE COAL FOR GOLD

You should be able to disinguish:

The fish called sfyrida from stira: Sfyrida has a light gray color and a long shape. Stira has green “patches” on it.

The so-called goatfish from its “cousin: koutsomoura: The goatfish has a curved head, while koutsomoura has a straight and short front. Koutsomoura also has a more intense smell from the goatfish.

The sardine from frissa: Unfortunately, their only difference is a yellow stripe on the sardine’s sides.

The whitebait from the tseroula: Tseroula is wider and has a lighter color.

WHEN YOU BUY

OCTOPUS: The real octopus has fat tentacles and dark gray color. Instead of octopus they might sell you melidona, which has a tasteless and rough skin. Its color is reddish and its tentacles are thin and long.

SQUID: The real squid is reddish and it has small flaps. If you do not notice it you may eat thrapsalo, which is not as good as the squid. The thrapsalo has a gray color, rarely yellow, while its flaps are very big as regards its body.

Lobster-Shrimps-Crawfish: It orange-red color is a sign of freshness, but unfortunately is not always real, since if you put in hot water and vinegar it becomes like that. Thus, the only way to find out if it’s really fresh or alive is to see it before being cooked.

GENERAL RULES ON THE CONSUMPTION OF SEAFOOD

Never choose seafood that does not have a pleasant smell of freshness

Always choose shellfish of which the shell is closed. If you find a small hole on the shell, try to empty its inside on your hand, to find out if it smells bad.

In order to find out if a cockle is alive you should spill some lemon on it.

Avoid any shell you do not its origin.

Avoid shrimps and crawfish that have an intense smell and avoid those that the legs are not well attached to the rest of its bodies.

About the Author

Stelios is the wemaster , designer and developer of www.gohalkidiki.com

Halloween Cakes – Centerpiece And Dessert

Halloween Cakes – Centerpiece And Dessert
by: Susanne Myers

A Halloween cake is not only the perfect dessert for any Halloween party and a must have for someone with a birthday on or around October 31st, but also makes a great center piece for your food table if you are throwing any type of Halloween party. Here are two simple, yet impressive Halloween cakes that you can try this year.
Pumpkin Cake

No, we are not taking about a pumpkin flavored cake, but a light colored cake that looks like a pumpkin when you’re finished decorating it.

You will need 3 box mixes of white or yellow cake mix along with the additional ingredients like oil and eggs the box calls for. Prepare the batter as directed. Pour it into two bunt pans and bake according to the package directions. Allow the cake to cool completely.

Meanwhile, combine two to three cans of vanilla frosting in a bowl. You can probably make do with two cans, but if you prefer being able to work out any unevenness, or fix fingerprints made in there by little hands (what child can resist tasting frosting?), go with three cans.

Add enough red and yellow food coloring to the frosting mixture to turn it bright orange. Spread some of the frosting only on the flat side one of the cooled bunt cakes. Set the other one on top of it flat side down. You have a pumpkin shape. Use the rest of frosting mixture to frost the entire cake.

Use black icing to draw a carved pumpkin design on the cake. Some triangular shapes for the eyes and nose, as well as a large half moon shape will do the trick.

Spider Cake

Start with a boxed mix of devil’s food cake (or your favorite chocolate cake mix). Prepare the batter and bake it in two round pans according to the package instructions. Let it cool on a rack.

Scoop 2 cans of vanilla frosting into a large bowl and add enough green and yellow food coloring to turn it into a nice spooky green color. Spread a layer of frosting in between the two cake rounds. Use the rest to frost the entire outside of the cake.

Use black icing to draw a spider web on the top of the cake. Start by drawing lines across the top. Imagine the top of the cake is a clock. Draw a line from 12 to 6, then one from 9 to 3. Fill in the spaces with two more lines each. Then start working on the circles starting in the center of the cake and working your way out toward the edges of the cake.

Take a chocolate muffin, cut off the bottom and frost the entire top of it with chocolate frosting. Roll it frosted side down in chocolate sprinkles and place it in the center of the spider web on the cake. Add four pieces of black licorice to each side as legs.

Now all you’ll need is a spooky costume and you will be ready for an impressive Halloween party.

About the Author

Susanne Myers

Would you like to quickly make creative Halloween costumes that you and your children will be proud of — for a fraction of the price of store-bought? Susanne Myers has co-authored a book to show you how — no sewing involved. Visit http://www.ILoveHalloweenCostumes.com to learn more.

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