coffee corner

You are browsing the archives of 2006 January.

Voting is open in this month’s TeaChef competition.  Please go vote for me!  Then tell your friends, loved ones, family, passing acquaintances, pets, neighbors, coworkers, and penpals to go vote as well.  I’m totally out for the bragging rights.

This is a fairly simple dish to put together that looks a bit more elegant on the plate than your average chicken. The Lapsang Souchong smoking imparts a deep, earthly flavor to the meat that pairs quite well with the flavor of the mushrooms. Complement the fowl with a deep red wine such as a [...]

The other thought I had in using the tea (see below) would be a granité.  Essentially, it would produce a smoky-tasting snow cone type of dessert.  That could be nice paired with some grilled fruit, even if it is the dead of winter.  If I can’t work out how to smoke a piece of meat [...]

My tea sample from the TeaChef program at Adagio Teas arrived in the mail yesterday. January’s tea is Lapsang Souchong, a very smoky black tea that is dried in “bamboo baskets over pine fires”. I had a cup of it black last night, and was really impressed. It’s a sort of love-it-or-hate-it [...]

Scientists have bred pigs that glow in the dark.
I’m at a loss for words.  I can understand some of the scientific research options they are trying to open up, but that’s just weird.  One step closer to green ham and eggs, I suppose.  I wonder if the phosphorescent effect is only in the skin (mmm!  [...]