Homemade Coffee Ice Cream

One of the few cooking blogs I follow is cafefernando.com, written by a young Turkish food enthusiast. He only writes a couple times a month, but it’s always interesting and includes beautiful photos. A few weeks ago, he posted a recipe for making “Vietnamese” coffee ice cream at home using sweetened condensed milk. I decided […]

Roasting Coffee at Home (Guest Post)

Tonight, my wife and I tried roasting coffee at home for the first time. We had a blast! She documented the excursion on her blog. Here it is in full. For years now, Hubby and I have wanted to try roasting our own coffee from raw beans. The flavor from fresh-roasted coffee is always quite […]

Strange Brew (Guest Post)

A treat today! This is a guest post from my beautiful (and talented!) wife. In the spirit of celebrating the coffee scene in and around Moscow, I have to note the presence of a widespread phenomenon we have all experienced at one time or another: Home Brewing. Like the backwoods whiskey stills running during the […]