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Kettle and Cup

Archive for November 2007

November 16th, 2007

Simple Ways To Green Your Coffee & Tea

 
Besides leaving it out over the weekend and having an irritating layer of green fuzz growing on it, I mean.
There are lots of small things we do everyday without thinking about them. Over a period of years we develop habits, things we do over and over with very little thought. Not necessarily because they are […]

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November 15th, 2007

Golden Moon Tea Announces New Blends

Golden Moon has to be one of the best teas on the market, in my opinion. The have come out with some new blends and premium taste sampler and wow, does it look like an awesome collection.
I love Irish Breakfast tea and they have come out with a Special Reserve Irish Breakfast that is […]

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November 14th, 2007

Canine Cappuccino Anyone?

I seriously did not believe what I was reading. I had to read it a couple of times.
A company named DoggyLicious is selling a faux-caffeine fix for canines. I like my dog alot, but this may be pushing the envelope. Well, no..it IS pushing the envelope.

You mix this vitamin drink with water and it looks […]

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November 12th, 2007

Tea Memories

This is a vintage tea set from the 1930’s.  I have to tell you that I love this thing.  One just like it sat on a shelf at Gramma-Great’s house. Now, she was not MY gramma-great, she was my cousins’.  She was my aunt’s mother and she was, I think a little over 100 years […]

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November 10th, 2007

How To Make Tea: Hot or “Sweet”

 
This is not as simple a question as it looks at first. I grew up with Red Rose and Lipton in little bleached white bags, dipped a few times in tepid water and set on the back of the stove for one more use. So when I started becoming interested in tea it was […]

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November 9th, 2007

10 Reasons I Keep Going Back to Starbucks

 
When I want to drink really good coffee I stay home. When I want to have some time to myself, or be able to talk to Marc without an interruption I go to Starbucks.
We go every Monday for coffee. We have done for a long time. I don’t know how long really, I think we […]

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November 6th, 2007

Earl Grey Flavored Chocolate Truffles

I got addicted to chocolate truffles years ago when Marc bought me my very first box of Godiva Chocolate. Wow, the feeling of the chocolate as it melted over my tongue, the intensity of the taste spreading through my mouth…yum.
I spent a few months learning how to make them myself and how to flavor […]

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November 4th, 2007

An Espresso By Any Other Name…

If you ever wondered exactly what you were drinking when you had an espresso macchiato check out Coffee Drinks Illustrated .
What a brilliant post! I now know that when I go to Starbucks and order a macchiato with extra whipped cream I am actually ordering an espresso con panna . Now here […]

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November 3rd, 2007

A Little van Gogh with Your Coffee, Sir?

This is so cool. I want to learn how to do this!

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November 2nd, 2007

Welome To Kettle & Cup

Image:(c) MaryeAudet 2007
C’mon in! The coffee is always brewing here, and the tea kettle is always on.
I have loved coffee and tea for a long, long time. Marc and I are self-proclaimed coffee snobs. We opened up a tea room and bistro a few years ago with the hope that we could spend […]

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