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Bodrum Turkey Vacation

I treated myself with a visit to Bodrum Turkey, which is a ferry trip away from Kos Island Greece. Just a normal ferry, not a cruise in one of those famous wooden Bodrum gulets…

Being far far away I treated myself with an iced coffee: Bodrum Turkey style!

Bodrum Turkey coffee drink with whipped . . . → Read More: Where to drink the best iced coffee?

Vietnamese Iced Coffee Recipe

If you love the feeling of traveling in your own house, Vietnamese coffee made with an authentic Vietnamese coffee maker can bring you in the mood of being in Vietnam. The coffee takes about 10 minutes to drip through… it’s great if you just want to relax and enjoy some peace and quietness from a slowly . . . → Read More: Vietnamese Iced Coffee Recipe

Greek Coffee

The highlight of my day these days happens to be in the late afternoon: after the lunch cleaning up and midday-break and just before rush-hour dinner time. It’s around “now” that I go out and have a cup of authentic Greek coffee.

For the purists amongst us: Greek coffee is as Greek as French fries is French. . . . → Read More: Greek Coffee

Vietnamese Iced Coffee Recipe

If you have 15 minutes of patience and you are nostalgic about the coffee you drank in Vietnam…get your authentic Vietnamese coffee press to make this iced coffee recipe.

If you don’t have the patience and you need coffee fast, make a fast Vietnamese Iced Coffee based on a cup of espresso.

Go to the Vietnamese Iced . . . → Read More: Vietnamese Iced Coffee Recipe

Come at ease at a Kos Beach

Tourist season is almost over here in Kos, which I find is the greatest time to visit Greece and any other place in the world: go when the tourists are gone and become a local between the locals…

The Greek sky is still blue, I can’t imagine how the sky must look like in California. I come . . . → Read More: Come at ease at a Kos Beach

Last coffee in Kos

Normally the tourist season in Kos ends this month in October, so I should get out of here in November as most of the overseas Greek do here.

Yet with the temperatures still high, I wonder when we really are going to "close shop" for this season.

Apart from the fires in Greece, the tourist season was . . . → Read More: Last coffee in Kos

Sipping coffee at the seashore

My ideal passing time here in Kos is jumping on a bike and drive to one of the many cafes, bars, pus, canteens… next to the seashore. I am not a real "fry me on a beach" person, since I am aware that skin-cancer is on the rise. Just give me a good old cup of . . . → Read More: Sipping coffee at the seashore

Amy Winehouse Rehab

Have you ever wondered why people do add milk in their coffee? Amy Winehouse seems to love her coffee black, but with the look on her eyes, the black clothes matching her black coffee and black hairstyle…

Amy Winehouse Rehab please!

Why Amy Winehouse needs rehab herself…

That’s why I advice an Amy Winehouse Rehab . . . → Read More: Amy Winehouse Rehab

Civet coffee

First the nice explanation about civet coffee, then the picture and then up to you if you still want to give over 100$ to get you some civet coffee from any kopi luwak online shop.

Civet Coffee – Kopi Luwak

Kopi is the word they use in Indonesia and Malaysia to say coffee.

Luwak is the word they . . . → Read More: Civet coffee

Vanessa Hudgens coffee break

Please: give Vanessa Hudgens a break, make that a coffee break

For those that have been following the gossip around Vanessa Hudgens lately, I am sure you will be missing this Vanessa Hudgens picture sipping a coffee.

Now let’s all get back to our own lives before we point a finger to Vanessa Hudgens! At least . . . → Read More: Vanessa Hudgens coffee break

How Beppe Grillo gets fresh organic milk in your coffee

I just read this one in a very old blog post of Beppo Grillo, but it’s a step in the good direction to get some fresh milk for a decent price. Gosh, I would love to be in Italy and bring my cup of coffee to these cows to get a fresh cafe latte!

Ok, what’s the . . . → Read More: How Beppe Grillo gets fresh organic milk in your coffee

Civet cat coffee

What has a civet cat to do with coffee?

Well, the civet cat is to coffee as the alchemist is to lead: the latter turns lead into gold and the first turns coffee into … coffee even more expensive than gold (or almost…).

How does the civet cat attribute to the price of coffee? By eating the . . . → Read More: Civet cat coffee

Coffee break in Kos

Lunchtime is just finished here in Kos, Greece so time to relax with a well deserved
cup of coffee. (says who? Says … me! )

Although these Turkish coffee cups are quite tiny, I suppose I am still having a bigger coffee intake than when I drink normal coffee in normal cups. Anyway, it beats the . . . → Read More: Coffee break in Kos

The Skinny Cook sipping coffee at the seashore

Well for those that are regular skinny cook readers, you noticed that the theme has changed. After a sleepless night with a lot of coffee, I managed to change my Wordpress theme from something from before the second world war into a theme called "Seashore".

Just because I love the sea shore, so that was a no . . . → Read More: The Skinny Cook sipping coffee at the seashore

Kopi Luwak online shop

We already mentioned we found a civet cat coffee or Kopi Luwak online shop at : http://civetcoffee.net/

Or you can contact this Kopi Luwak coffee shop directly at:

Jl. Sultan Hasanuddin no. 42
Jakarta, 12160
Indonesia
Ph. 62-21-68001557
Fax. 62-816-1904483
Mobile. 62-816-1997640

It’s interesting to know and kind of logical as you come to think of it that in other parts of the world . . . → Read More: Kopi Luwak online shop

Kopi Luwak online

What I love about the Internet is that you can order almost anything online what normally would be quite impossible to get. Ok, nothing is impossible: but I do remember how people stuffed their bag to bring special things back home which they would otherwise not be able to transport.

In the case of buying kopi luwak . . . → Read More: Kopi Luwak online

Kopi Luwak Coffee

So how much does your regular cup of kopi luwak coffee cost as seen on Oprah’s More about Sulawesi coffee beans?

Ok, if I was a bad marketing person, I would ask you: would you give a penny for coffee beans that already have been eaten and after that excreted by a civet cat? Hmmm, no takers? . . . → Read More: Kopi Luwak Coffee

More about Sulawesi coffee beans

Well, this is a coffee promoted on the Oprah show, so you can’t blame me for pulling your leg

Kopi Luwak are robusta or arabica coffee beans which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Common Palm Civet.

This process takes place on the islands of Sumatra, Java and . . . → Read More: More about Sulawesi coffee beans

Green coffee beans

If you have ever grown beans in your garden, you know that the color of the beans is green (depending on the variety of course…). A similar story comes into place when you talk about coffee beans: lots of coffee beans are green when they are picked from the coffee plant.

Why are the coffee beans you . . . → Read More: Green coffee beans

Coffee cupcakes

I had to babysit my little nieces today, and no better way to keep them occupied than to let them play around in the kitchen

So I let them make coffee cupcakes, which are your regular kind of cupcakes but for every 6 ounces (180gr) of butter and equal amounts of egg, sugar and cake . . . → Read More: Coffee cupcakes

Free Coffee Samples anyone?

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…

Do you get these kind of spam comments as well? And do you have any idea how to get rid of them? If so, please let me know in a comment!

The following topics are repeatedly in my comments:

Weight Loss Hypnosis…
Flower Guide Online…
Travel Search Engines…
Free Coffee . . . → Read More: Free Coffee Samples anyone?

Greece, Minah Rempit and Singapore Sluts

Here I am sitting in Kos reading about the hot news about the forests around Athens, hotter than hot Minah Rempit and still laughing about the hot and funny Singapore Sluts in my Sexy Singapore post of yesterday

Hot news

What’s happening around Athens is hot like we don’t want it: forests are on fire, temperatures . . . → Read More: Greece, Minah Rempit and Singapore Sluts

How to make extraordinary strong coffee?

How to make a can of strong coffee request

Has anybody techniques to make enormous strong coffee, so to be used to make coffee syrup?

I usually make a can of coffee and reuse this coffee to set a new can of coffee over new beans, and repeat this 3 times.

But is there another way of . . . → Read More: How to make extraordinary strong coffee?

Oldtown White Coffee

Oldtown White Coffee "Now Open" (Kini dibuka)

Every day I have been passing this building on the road in Kuala Lumpur, and today the first ‘restaurant thingy’ opened there is called "OldTown White Coffee".

For those not living in Malaysia: white coffee is a way of roasting coffee with margarine only. Compared to my father-in-laws’ Hainan coffee . . . → Read More: Oldtown White Coffee

Malaysian dress code

Everywhere you go, you should try to adapt to the local customs:

if you go to the opera, you wear an evening dress or a tuxedo,
if you go to a holy place you dress "holy" and if you go to a coffee shop in Malaysia…

Coffee shop dress code

Coffee shop dress code : "anythingscan"

If you . . . → Read More: Malaysian dress code

How your kids make Belgian Chocolates!

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Belgian Chocolates

Belgian chocolates or pralines as we call it is normally "something inside" (Ganache) with "something chocolate outside".

But every time I come back to Malaysia, my whole family wants those Belgian chocolate delicacies. Unfortunately, KLM airlines let me only carry 20 kg (yes, about 40 pounds), which is a joke if . . . → Read More: How your kids make Belgian Chocolates!

Thai Iced Coffee Recipe

A simple coffee recipe with the extra sweetness of cardamom! If you really want to drink this Thai coffee like it is served in Thailand, then add much more
sugar and cream!

Read this Iced Coffee recipe at : Gourmet Coffee Bean

Technorati Tags: Iced coffee recipe | Coffee | Thai iced coffee . . . → Read More: Thai Iced Coffee Recipe

Gourmet Coffee Bean

 

The Skinny Cooks’ Coffee blog is back!

After the Skinny Cooks coffee blog got deleted completely on the free Blogger service, The Skinny Cook is happy to announce that all coffee recipes and all coffee maker reviews will now be found at:

Gourmet Coffee Bean

Gourmet coffee beans: which are the best gourmet coffee beans and how . . . → Read More: Gourmet Coffee Bean