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Monday, October 16, 2006 -----

Coffee Experiments...

We've been experimenting with coffee, well my partner has. I like my coffee just plain and black - I used to make my cup an overload of cream and sugar and other things to overcome the bitter taste but since we go the fresh roasted route for coffee now - it's not really an issue for me. My partner has a major sweet tooth (though he denies he likes anything sweet including me) yet he is always filling up his cup with these heavy ready made coffee creamers (we jokingly call it "fluff") and now Mister Health has been looking for something a little better for the bod (besides giving up sweet coffee).

We went through several incarnations but he has a neat little mixture now that is very simple and doesn't have all the additives and garbage in the mix. It consists of a very simple mix of half and half, organic sugar and a shot of organic vanilla. I'm not a huge fan of sweet coffees but I have to admit - it's really good!

We're experiementing with making it sugar free right now by using leaves from our Stevia plant (stevia is a natural sweetner and is roughly ten to fifteen times sweeter than sugar and it doesn't cause tooth decay or mess up the body's sugar levels like refined sugar does). Our stevia coffees have been wayyyyy too sweet - like cringingly sweet - but eventually we'll get it right!

::  Posted by: 3am Art  at 12:01 PM
  

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