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Organic Coffee Promotes Better Health

We're all becoming more health conscience of what we eat drink and do. This is no different with our intake of coffee, so what's the healthy alternative in the coffee world? Organic coffee beans, they're grown without any artificial chemicals ensuring a healthy flavorful bean.

How to Make Beef Stew in a Crockpot

The best food to be cooked in a crockpot is a stew. Stews are cooked on low heat for several hours often overnight if you are using beef as a main ingredient of the dish.

Preservation of Wonderful Memories

Wedding and photography both go hand in hand. It is difficult to have a wedding without having pictures being taken. Since pictures are the best ways of preserving memories, they also allow one to spend ...

Sourdough Starter Vs Store Bought Bread

Did you know that Ancient hieroglyphics depict Egyptians making sourdough over 5,000 years ago? Have you ever wanted to make authentic sourdough from home instead of the poor imitations you get at the store?

How to Decorate Wedding Cakes

Cake decorating can be serious fun, provided you know what you are doing. To be very frank decorating is not really difficult task but you need to know some basic techniques.

Temperature to Serve White Wine

What is the optimal temperature to serve white wine? For beginners, this is a commonly asked question. Temperature is crucial when looking for a true sense of a white wine's body and flavor. In order ...

Uses for Cashew Butter

Cashew butter is a healthy alternative to peanut butter because it contains little to no saturated fat, but is high in protein and flavor. Many manufacturers of cashew butter add very little sugar and salt, or leave it out all together. Since the cashew flavor alone is so rich and buttery, no additi

Discover How To Fight Disease Simply By Drinking Tea

Tea is fast becoming the most popular drink in the world and for good reason. As described in this article many of these drinks contain wonderful natural ingredients that help us fight a range of diseases by encouraging a strong immune system.

How to Cook With a Liqueur

Whatever liquor they're made with, all liqueurs have more sugar and flavoring ingredients than liquors, giving you a ready-made dessert ingredient. That said, desserts are not the only meal you can make with a liqueur. Sometimes the type of liqueur tells you what ingredient to pair it with: pair cit

The Best Hot Holiday Appetizers

If you are looking for easy party appetizers for the holidays, you might want to know about some easy hot appetizers that you can make. Holiday appetizers can be hot or chilled but hot appetizers are especially great because they smell amazing. If the weather is cold, hot appetizers can be especiall

Maple Syrup - A History

The first people believed to have produced maple syrup (and maple sugar as well, for that matter) are the pre-contact native peoples residing in the northeastern portion of North America. Their oral traditions and archeological evidence state that maple tree sap was processed for its sugar content w

Making Soups and Stews in the Crockpot

Soups and stews make for delicious lunches and dinners any time of the year and when you use the crockpot to cook them, the flavors seem to blend together perfectly. With just a few adjustments to cooking times and to the amount of liquids used, most recipes for soups and stew made on the stovetop c

How to Pick the Best Quality Seasonings

How can you spot the difference between fresh spices and herbs and old ones that might have lost their flavor? Here are some tips that will help you know which herbs and spices are worth spending a lot of money on and which ones aren't.

Tea Time: Video Series

There are few better ways to get your day started (or to finish it off) than with a nice, delicious cup of tea. Learn how to make various types of tea right at home with help from a coffee shop owner in this free video series.

Cooking Secrets To Spice Up Your Meals

How many times have you dreaded going into the kitchen to make breakfast, lunch, or dinner? You might need a new perspective. Cooking can be enjoyable and relaxing if you try to see it in ...

Cooking With Cream - Learn About The Types Of Cream And How To Use Them

Cream is often used in different ways when cooking. What is cream? It is basically one of the fatty parts of milk that is not homogenized and it usually accumulates on the very surface of the milk. The stability of the cream is going to be based upon the butterfat that the specific type of cream con

Simple And Effective Self Help Tips For Today

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How to Get Sober Faster

After downing a few drinks too many, you suddenly realize that you are due at work in forty-five minutes. It's time to sober up -- fast. While nothing will dramatically speed up the digestion of alcohol, there are tricks to reduce the effects that it has on your judgment, behavior and speech. Depend