Tips on Using Your Leftover Brewed Coffee or Espresso

Coffee is among the world’s favorite beverages. There are times however, when there’s too much of a good thing, leftovers happen, even with good old brewed coffee. Don’t waste that precious beverage. Here are some of the many things that one can make with a leftover brewed coffee or espresso.

Save it Later Use
The simplest way to save your espresso is to store if for later, so you have an instant brewed coffee the moment you crave for the beverage. This is not implying that you should save your 5-day old coffee. No! If you do that, chances are that the flavor will be gone from the beverage by then. However, if you think that you likely will be craving for another serving in a few hours or anytime within a day, then you better save that coffee. After it has cooled down, simply put it in the refrigerator until your next use. This won’t hurt the flavor at all. Heat it up later through a steamer, not in the microwave, and you will still get that rich flavor to enjoy.

Flavor For Your Baked Goods
This may probably be one of the most uncommon methods, but several people actually use leftover brewed coffee, most particularly the espresso, for baking. One suggestion is to use it to bake brownies, cookies and cakes! Brownie and cake mixes that have an added touch of coffee flavor to the mixture will taste great. This goes well with other pastries, too. Naturally, the espresso mixture may be better off in a denser or chunkier batter just like those of the brownies mainly because it can hold the espresso better. Try experimenting with coffee in your baked goods and you may just create a unique coffee flavored pastry.

Use for Chilled Drinks
Another way to use leftover brewed coffee is in the beverages that you will have later. One suggestion that a lot of people use is to make coffee ice cubes. Coffee-flavored ice cubes can be an excellent addition to milk, vodka (mudshake), blended to become a frappe, or simply added to a cup of black coffee. Just because coffee is generally consumed as a hot beverage doesn’t mean that you are limited to what you are able to do with it.

All of these things are just a few of the ways in which brewed coffee can be used as leftovers. Be creative and enjoy!

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How to Make Chicken Adobo

"Adobo" is one of the best dishes cooked in Philippine cuisine. Although Adobo comes from the Spanish which means "sauce, seasoning or, marinade", the cooking method is indigenous to the Philippines. Adobo is slowly cooked soy sauce, vinegar, crushed garlic, bay leaf, and black peppercorns and often browned in the oven or pan-fried afterwards to get the desirable crisped edges. Adobo was also called the quintessential Philippine stew, served with rice both at daily meals and usually at feasts.

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How to Make 1950s-Style Holiday Cookies, Recreating the Old-Fashioned Holiday Spirit

If you are longing for the good old days this Holiday Season, you can recreate them easily and inexpensively. Here is a recipe for old-school, 1950s-style Holiday cookies to give as gifts or to serve at parties. They are easy to make and inexpensive, especially when compared to the price of packaged cookies and bakery sweets this year. All you need is a pinch of creativity, a sprinkle of time spent thrift store shopping, and a desire to walk down memory lane and recreate an old-fashioned Holiday spirit.

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Traditional Raisin Fruitcake for Christmas

The perfect substitute to a traditional fruitcake is a traditional raisin cake. A thick and sweet fruitcake is sometimes too sweet and too thick to serve as a dessert for a Christmas dinner. If you are thinking of serving cake for dessert during Chrismas a tradtional raisin cake is the perfect substitute to a traditional fruitcake. This recipe is also great for those who don’t drink or who can’t mix food that has alcohol in it as a traditional fruitcake does have alcohol poured on top to moisten.

Need a fruitcake that doesn’t taste like a fruit cake? Try this! Your guests will love you and their sweet tooth will be tickled pink!

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Barbecue French Fries

Homemade french fries turn into something special when coated with barbecue sauce and cooked in a foil pouch. Great way to use leftovers if you make too many fries.

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Homemade Christmas Candy Recipes

The holiday season just wouldn`t be the same without decadent treats and candies. The following recipes require minimal ingredients and are easy to make and keep on hand during the festive season. Try making extra batches of each: they make wonderful gifts when they are presented in pretty tins or glass containers. Take a look at some charming recipes by Laurie:

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Alternatives to Turkey: Recipes for Vegetarian Thanksgiving Dinners

Although turkey is typically associated with the Thanksgiving meal, refusing to consider other options will make this holiday difficult for vegetarians. From pumpkin to butternut squash, vegetarian stuffing recipes to veggie gratin, there are many seasonal dishes to make delicious vegetarian-friendly Thanksgiving Day main courses.

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Vegetable Side Dishes Worthy of Thanksgiving Dinner

Tired of the same old green bean casserole on Thanksgiving Day? Would you like a recipe for a green bean side dish that you can cook right on the stove top that is easy to fix and has a nice kick to it. The flavors of this Spanish inspired green bean dish go really well with turkey and will be a welcomed change it is also a bit more filling because there is a bit of starch involved as well as this recipe is made with rice.

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Cranberry Recipes - Unique Cranberry Recipes for Thanksgiving Holiday

Cranberry recipes are a huge part of the Thanksgiving holiday. Are you looking for a unique idea when it comes to cranberries for your Thanksgiving feast? Here are two unique ideas that put a delicious spin on how you can put cranberries to good use.

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Curried Shrimp Recipe-Shrimp and Pumpkin Curry

Shrimp and pumpkin curry is delicious when served over rice.

This curried shrimp recipe uses pumpkin-which is naturally sweet and does well in a curry. Tomatoes are used in this shrimp and pumpkin curry recipe. Tomatoes contain the anti-cancer agent lycopene, which the body absorbs better from cooked tomatoes.

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Thanksgiving Side Dishes and Pumpkin Soup

Thanksgiving is the favorite time of the year for many. It is a great time to have family and friends over to enjoy some good food. Here is a pumpkin soup recipe by Daniel Snyder

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How to Prepare Perfect Oven Roasted Turkey

Making your own oven roasted turkey can be a rewarding experience. It only takes a small amount of preparation and a few simple steps to begin roasting to perfection.

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Yummy Haunted Gingerbread House Recipe

During the Christmas season, the most wonderful centerpieces are often homemade gingerbread houses. But I fail to see why this should be a tradition strictly cast over the Christmas holiday! Looking for a spooky, edible centerpiece for your Halloween party? Try this delicious Halloween Gingerbread House recipe out! It’s sure to be a hit!

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Vampire-themed Food Recipes for a True Blood Halloween Party

Are you planning to have a True Blood Halloween party this year? The first thing for a True Blood-themed Halloween party would be to invite all your guests to dress up like vampires or their favorite True Blood character. Then think of what kind of vampire food you want your friends and family to sink their teeth into.

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Frightfully Delicious Halloween Drink Recipes

The haunted holiday is ranked third behind Christmas and New Years for hosting parties and no Halloween party is complete without ghostly good liquid treats. Whether your guest list includes Michael Myers, Freddie Kruger, vampires, werewolves, or witches, make sure there’s something on the drink menu that will spook everyone!

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Hearty and Healthy Vegetable Soups to Go With Your Meals

Making your own or preparing your favorite soup or chowder recipe is so much better than opening pack or cup of instant noodle soup. It can be a lot of fun and done with such ease that you will still have time for your other activities. For people who are concerned about family budget, preparing simple but nutritious meals with hearty soups can save you money. Serving vegetable soups is also a good way to make children eat their greens willingly.

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Split Grilled Lemon Asparagus

This is a simple side that’s great with grilled seafood, chicken, and steaks.

This asparagus still has some crisp bite, with a citrus butter flavor on the outside that carmelizes as the asparagus cooks. Let’s face it, grilling’s the best!

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Southern Fried Taters (Potatoes) and Smoked Sausage Skillet Meal

This is a tasty, simple one dish meal for those of who are on a budget and wanting not to spend more than 30 minutes cooking. You can prepare one dish meals that are much more cost effective than a comparable frozen food meal costing much more. Many of the frozen, prepared meals lack the quantity of food needed to feed an entire “hungry” family on a budget resulting in one buying several packages to cook. In reality there are much better ways to save money and time.

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Chicken Croquettes Recipe

Croquettes are small round foods commonly made of minced meat, poultry, fish, or vegetables mixed with egg and bread crumbs and deep-fried. These are typically served with cream, sauce, or ketchup, but they can also be enjoyed plain.

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Chicken Meat Loaf

Meatloaf is a dish made of ground meat moulded into a loaf shape cooked by steaming, baking or smoking. The shape of the load is formed by either using a loaf pan, or forming it by hand on a flat baking dish. Here is a poultry version of a meatloaf — the chicken meatloaf.

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Couscous with Feta, Basil, and Tomato

This is one of the simplest recipes posted, but it’s also one of the best. The flavor content here is amazing. It’s got the light fluffy couscous, the tangy feta, the tart tomatoes, and the mellow basil. This will impress anyone you're with, and it costs less than $6 to make.

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Hearty Chicken Soup Recipe

For fans of chicken soup, here’s a hearty and meaty version that is filling. It’s a comfort food for those rainy days or you can make it as a side dish or a starter for a full course meal.

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Healthy and Spicy Pita Pizza

Eating healthy and eating on the go normally don’t go hand in hand but this quick and easy pizza recipe is spot on.

Pizza is the ultimate in fast food. Grabbing a slice can be an easy but unhealthy meal, but pizza doesn’t have to be unhealthy, and healthy pizza doesn’t have to tasteless. This recipe will kick you in the face with flavour and it’s easy on your heart, tummy and cholesterol level. The best thing about this healthy pizza recipe is it only takes about five minutes to prepare.

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Italian Quiche & Sausage Quiche Both Made With a PreMade Crust

Here are two different kinds of quiche recipes. Quiche is great for breakfast but is also wonderful for lunch. Before eating either of these quiches allow them to set out and cool off a bit before cutting.

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How To Make Tomato Chutney

Tomato Chutney is an ideal accompaniment to many things. It is sweet and sour, spicy and dark and works well with different things. From cheese and crackers, on bread, on oatcakes, to a condiment for meats, tomato chutney quite literally brings something tasty to the table. Sandwiches or chunk rolls filled with cold meat can have a taste explosion added to them simply by the addition of some delicious tomato chutney. And it couldn’t be easier to make your own. Here we will take a look at a very easy recipe to make your own tomato chutney.

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Chicken Burger Patties

Here is a recipe that you can make using with leftover chicken. If you are aiming for a meaty patty dish with lesser fat, this is a good choice. You can serve it fried or with gravy.

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Cornish Game Hen with Hen Broth Rice

This is a double recipe. One for the hen itself and one for the rice. The rice is almost creamy and savory. Some of the best rice I’ve ever had!

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How to Make Good Porridge

It’s easy once you know how, but it’s getting to know how.

Enjoy with a sprinkle of sugar, honey or milk (or both). Or you can experiment with all sorts of fruit and nuts.

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Sweet and Sour Chicken

Here’s a delectable chicken dish with a tangy goodness. It’s also good for parties because you can prepare the chicken in advance and just pour on the sauce later when ready to serve.

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Sour Cream Cheese Bacon Dip

Sour cream is high in essential nutrients, among them, calcium, vitamin A, and riboflavin. It is also valued by health enthusiasts for its therapeutic effects.

Sour cream is primarily used for dressings because of its body and flavor. It complements vegetable and fruit flavors and is also very popular with baked potatoes.

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Chicken Fried Rice

Here is a fried rice variation that is good enough to be served as a main course dish. It has a very Asian look and flavor. The variety of textures and flavors in this dish makes it worth a try on your next meal.

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Roasted, Sauteed Game Hen Burritos with Hen Rice and Spicy Tomatoes & Beans

Longest title ever? Perhaps, but an incredible burrito this is. The rice is sweet, the meat is juicy, and the beans are spicy from the roasted tomatoes.

Delicious, cheesy and gooey! You can replace the rice and hen with regular rice and chicken if you want.

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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

These oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are a long-standing traditional favorite that are just so easy to make and unbelievably palate pleasing to eat.

Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies really do make excellent additions to any cookie jar or mixed cookies plate and are typically enjoyed alone or as accompaniment to beverages such as coffee, tea, milk, Milo, malted smoothies, hot chocolate, Mocha etc.

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Fresh Saskatoon Pie

This is a super easy, scrumptious way to use fresh saskatoons.

Impress your family with this no fuss way to create a fresh saskatoon pie.

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How to Make Sushi

Sushi is a Japanese food consisting of vinegar-added rice with a topping. However, many people know sushi for its raw fish, but if you are vegetarian, you may create your own sushi delicacies using vegetables.

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Turkey and Pastaroni?!?!

Sounds bizarre, but the flavors are incredible together and it can be made for under $10!!!

This one is for the broke person in all of us. This meal costs around 8$ all together, it fed 2 full grown men and it will feed those same 2 men again today! Awesome for when you’re in a pinch and the grocery store looks like the IRS!

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Mint & Lemon Pepper Chicken Breast

This is a great grill recipe. This will impress guests and dates. It has a complex flavor, with simple ingredients and cooking.

This is a really simple recipe that results in some of the best chicken your taste buds will ever know. It’s savory with little explosions of mustard, lemon, and mint throughout the cut of meat. It is complimented well with a side of brown rice and broccoli.

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Easy Chop Suey Recipe

Chop suey is originally a Chinese Recipe adopted with Filipinos. It is also known as Chinese American dish as Chinese immigrants introduce this cooking to American as part of their Chinese Cuisine.

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A Vegen, Vegetarian and Kosher Parve Stuffed Pepper Recipe

This recipe for stuffed peppers is a good side dish to accompany meat and also as a meal in itself served with a salad. Stuffed peppers can be made with meat, but this recipe for stuffed peppers is a vegetarian one, in fact it is also a vegan recipe and a kosher parve recipe. The stuffed peppers are filled with a mixture of vegetables and rice and then cooked slowly on the stove in a tomato based sauce. The stuffed peppers are very filling and relatively easy to make. This recipe for stuffed peppers will feed about 6 people.

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Cranberry Apple Turkey Burgers with Summer Squash Salad

This recipe is one that is very tasteful and full of flavor! Enjoy it on a hot day where the summer squash salad cools you off or on a cooler day where the spice in the turkey burger makes you feel warm and satisfied! It is a very versatile plate in that you can add or eliminate the spices you want!


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How to Make Fluffy Mashed Potatoes and Some Serving Ideas

The best cooks don’t make mashed potatoes by mashing, but by ricing and folding gently.
The secret lies in the amount of starch released when it comes to mashed potatoes. Release too much and potatoes become gummy. That’s why expert chefs prefer the following technique, which calls for ricing potatoes instead.

Begin with cold water
Put peeled, cut potatoes in a saucepot filled with cold water. (Adding cold potatoes to hot water can result in lumpiness.) Bring water to a boil over high heat. Then lower heat to medium, bringing water to a simmer. Cover; cook until tender. Drain well.
Use a ricer instead of mashing

Rather than mashing cooked potatoes, which can lead to gumminess because of the massive amounts of starch it releases, gently push them through a ricer. Ricing is less damaging and ruptures fewer cells, so less starch is released, and potatoes end up being light and fluffy.
Gently fold the ingredients
Another key to limiting the release of starch in mashed potatoes is how other ingredients are added. Again, a light touch is called for. Gently fold in, rather than press butter, warm milk and additional ingredients, using a sweeping downward and upward motion.
Mashed Potato Ideas

• Fold in a diced onion, chopped fresh sage, a grated carrot and several chopped steamed cabbage leaves.
• Fold in a bit of roasted garlic and chopped fresh rosemary.
• Substitute sour cream for half of the milk, and fold in with chopped scallions and crumbled bacon slices.
• Add some grated parmesan to top your mashed potato side dish.
• For a meaty version, you may also add crushed bacon, bits of ham, pepperoni or sausages.
• To add a spicy taste, throw in some slices of jalapeno, crushed dried red pepper, or bell peppers strips.
• If you have left over mashed potatoes, you can modify them in the morning by mixing in ground beef, eggs, onions, salt, and pepper to suite your taste then fry them as small patties.

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Recipe Suggestion
Horseradish Mashed Potato
Ingredients
3 lbs Yukon gold potatoes, peeled and halved
1 cup milk, warmed
¼ cup milk, warmed
½ cup butter, melted
3 Tbs. prepared horseradish
2 Tbs. chopped fresh chives
In a large saucepot over high heat, bring potatoes and enough water to cover to a boil; reduce heat to medium, cover and simmer 30 minutes or until tender. Drain using a potato ricer, push potatoes in batches through ricer into a large serving bowl. Fold in warmed milk, butter, horseradish and chives. Season with salt and pepper.
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Crouton Corn Cakes

This is the CCC delight. It’s crunchy and sweet at the same time, it’s also extremely inexpensive! It’s only three ingredients!

So, this is easy, and delicious. It’s a great side, it’s a little heavy due to its fried nature, but the lack of excess ingredients helps keep it doable for dieters. There’s just 1 can of corn, and some bread crumbs. Other than that you just need some oil! It goes great as a side to any dish, especially tex-mex.

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The Easiest Gluten Free Pizza

The secret of making fast and easy pizza and if you wish, make it free from Gluten. Spread your favorite topping on. I like tuna and sliced mushrooms, but you can choose something else. Enjoy with a good salad or coleslaw.

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Curried Chicken Salad

Most chicken salads are about 60 percent fat, because of the large amounts of mayonnaise that are traditionally used. Curried chicken salad comes in at a respectable 35 percent. This delightful recipe may be used as a cool main dish on a bed of lettuce or as wonderful sandwich stuffer.

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A Sensational Summer Fruit Salsa

The salsa is a healthy, easy to prepare, low-fat side dish packed with delicious and bold flavors that can go with your snack or meal. This Latin-American dish is gaining popularity even with chefs worldwide. Many variations are being created producing new and different combinations of fruits, vegetables, and spices to create salsas that create an array of flavors that awaken the senses. The salsa can be used as delicious dips and tasty toppings. With summer’s bounty of fruits and vegetables, it is the time to take advantage of what nature has in store.

Because salsas use fresh ingredients, they have a certain punch of their own.  Use oranges, pineapples, and mangoes to supply the intense yet sweet flavor.

Add some crunch.
Texture adds allure to salsa.  Add in some cool cucumbers, crisp red and green peppers, refreshing celery, zesty radishes, and nutty jicama to add a bit of crunch.

Balance with tartness.
Balance the sweetness of the fruit by using acidic ingredients, such as vinegars and tomatillos.  To invigorate and enhance the flavors of the other ingredients, add a little lime or lemond juice.

Spice it up.
Hot red peppers, smoky chipotles, onions, garlic and chili powder give salsa the zing that distinguishes it from a humdrum fruit salad.  With a little “heat,” the salsa becomes a flavorful condiment.

Serve and enjoy!
However you like it, tangy, hot, or sweet, salsa can complement almost any meal imaginable.