Cold brewed tisanes, teas and coffee: Your summertime best friends

...orget the Sun (Amusingly, the different authors don’t exactly agree on the best route to iced tea, which only reinforces my laissez–faire attitude. But they’re great reads.) And here’s their take(s) on cold brewing coffee: It’s Time to Make Cold Brewed Coffee Or maybe not? What’s the Best Way to Brew Iced Coffee? So brew yourself up something refreshing, find yourself a seat in the shade, and enjoy the summer! Save...

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Coffee Roasting Demo at Summer Nights in the Garden July 8

...hat more people don’t do it. We’re going to show you how to roast your own coffee with a Whirley-Pop stove-top popcorn maker. Sweet Maria’s Home Coffee Roasting has generously donated the green beans we’ll be using. We’ll be repeating the workshop 6 times throughout the evening. There is a separate, free reservation system for the workshops that you can sign up for once you are on site. But show up early as the workshops fill up quickly. Black Roc...

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Using a Whirley-Pop to Roast Coffee

...ands angry that their partners had been suckered into the idea of roasting coffee at home with an air popper on the advice of some dumb blogger. Let me make amends. My coffee geek friends use a manual, hand cranked stove top popcorn popper called the Whirley-Pop. Here’s why: You can roast a much bigger batch. You have more control over the roasting process (by regulating the heat on the stove). No electronic parts, thus nothing to break down. You...

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Making It

...ctions for a wide range of projects, from building a 99-cent solar oven to making your own laundry soap to instructions for brewing beer. Making It is the go-to source for post-consumer living activities that are fun, inexpensive and eminently doable. Our goal in this book was to provide really stripped down, simple projects that use only inexpensive, easy to source materials. We also tried to use the same materials and ingredients over and over a...

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Making Tofu From Scratch at the Institute of Domestic Technology

...ople haven’t attempted since the pre-Betty Crocker era: cheesemaking, home coffee roasting, bacon curing, bread baking, jam and exotic projects like making your own nocino and toothpaste. One of the perks of teaching at the IDT is getting to sit in on some of the other classes. The coffee roasting class changed my life. Now, every morning, I look forward to fresh coffee I roasted myself in a Whirley-Pop Popcorn maker. This past weekend I sat in a...

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