TIP OF THE DAY: Café Liégeois

We made this recipe yesterday, for National Coffee Day. Instead of our favorite after-dinner coffee—a steaming cup of French or Italian roast with a shot of coffee liqueur, substituting for dessert—we celebrated with a Café Liégeois (lee-eh-ZHWAH). It’s a parfait with layers of iced coffee, ice cream, and whipped cream (called chantilly [shon-TEE-yee] in French).…
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RECIPE: Spiked Iced Coffee & Iced Espresso

Iced Russian Coffee. Photo courtesy DeLonghi.   Iced coffee with a shot of vodka: Now there’s an idea for chillaxing on a summer day. You can have an old school Black Russian or a White Russian (recipes). Or, you can add vodka, tequila or rum to iced coffee. De’Longhi, maker of premium espresso machines, sent…
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TIP OF THE DAY: How To Dissolve Sugar In Cold Drinks

Sugar dissolves slowly in cold liquids. Photo by K.G. Toh | CSP   As most people have discovered, table sugar is slow to dissolve in cold drinks. Whether you’re sweetening iced coffee and iced tea or making a sweet cocktail, there are better products to use than conventional granulated sugar. Superfine Sugar Pick up some…
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