Saturday, October 31, 2015

Coffee Cake Flavored Coffee

Tastes like you dipped coffee cake in your coffee.


1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
4 tablespoons butter buds
1 and 1/2 cups coffee grounds
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Mix everything together and use as you would any other coffee.
Milk and sweeten to taste.

Saturday, October 24, 2015

Hot and Sour Soup


Hot and Sour Soup 
Ingredients
2  Cans of Beef Broth
4  Cups of Water
½ Cup  Dried Black Mushrooms
  rehydrated 
4  Shitake Mushrooms
½ cup  Dried Lilly Buds Rehydrated
1 block  Firm or Extra Firm Tofu
½ cup  Bamboo Shoots 
1  Cayenne Pepper Chopped Fine
1 tsp  Salt
1 tsp  Sugar
2 Tbl  Dark Soy Sauce
2 Tbl  Rice Wine Vinegar
2 tsp  Sesame Oil 
1 Tbl  Cornstarch
Directions 
 • Rehydrate all ingredients, remove any hard bits 
    and discard water after use.
•  Simmer Beef Broth, Water and all ingredients
    except corn starch for 25 to 30 minutes.
•  add cornstarch to 1/2 cup of water and mix well.
•  Raise temperature slightly to the soup until bubbles 
    are rapidly rising to the top.
•  Slowly add the cornstarch and water to the soup
    and stir slowly to thicken.