Eva

Category: Food

  • The first sip of coffee in the morning is heaven

    The first sip of coffee in the morning is heaven

    Hi guys! Since coffee makes my mornings so awesome, every day, I thought I should share with you this feeling. So lets star with the beginning. I wake up…

    Usually, after I wake up, the first thing that I drink is coffee. Real, simple, dark black coffee. And the moment this beverage touches my tongue, there is this immediate feeling of heaven. If the coffee is good quality and if the brewing was done correctly, the final taste should be, as I said, heaven!

    I use a french press to brew my simple coffee and nothing more. I don’t add sugar, nor milk or chocolate. The most important part in this process is to make sure that the coffee will have foam. If it doesn’t have foam, something went wrong. If you drink expresso, then your problems are solved. The expresso machine will make sure to brew perfectly the coffee and to create that expresso-specific foam,, like this one below.

    My coffee, on the other hand, since it is french pressed, doesn’t always have foam and if it does, the foam doesn’t look like an expresso one. It looks like this:

    I’m not an expert and I don’t know what’s the correlation between this thin foam and heaven, but it is surely very important. It is also very important to drink the coffee at a good temperature, not too hot, since hotness numbs your senses. If the temperature is perfect and the foam is consistent and the coffee is good quality and dark enough, then you’ll be sure to enter heaven…

  • REVIEW: Bundaberg non-alcoholic ginger beer

    REVIEW: Bundaberg non-alcoholic ginger beer

    A friend brought me a Bundaberg non-alcoholic ginger beer cute little bottle with a funny kangaroo on it. I usually drink Clausthaler unfiltered non-alcoholic beer. I didn’t know about Bundaberg beer, but since I like alcohol free beers, I was eager to try this one too.

    It is an australian beer and I love its kangaroo logo.

    I was afraid it would be too spicy, but in fact it has a very subtle ginger taste. It tastes a little bit like a lemonade. It should be very refreshing in summer.

    Although I like its subtle, fresh taste, it was a little bit too sweet for me, but all in all I liked it.

  • Community Fridge – Food sharing & a really great idea!

    Community Fridge – Food sharing & a really great idea!

    I got very excited to find out about a great food sharing project that takes place right now in Glasgow, initiated by Strath Foodsharing Group (see here their Facebook Page).

    There is a community fridge, placed inside a building, where anyone can fill it up with food and anyone can take food.

    Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/289848188151274/about/

    The people behind this get help also from local stores and other non-profit organisations (Community Arts Centre The Space, Garnethill Multicultural Centre and the Foodsharing Network), who bring them almost out of date food, so that it won’t land into the trash can.

    I truly believe this is a great idea and I think it would do wonders if all people in residential ares who live in apartament blocks  would have a community fridge in their building, exchanging food with neighbours and reducing waste.

    I have a great appreciation for the team behind Strath Foodsharing Group and I hope that in the future more and more communities will start food sharing.

    Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/289848188151274/about/
  • One of the best snacks I’ve ever eaten: Whaou! Crepes

    One of the best snacks I’ve ever eaten: Whaou! Crepes

    When I visited France, a friend gave me a delicious snack. The brand is Whaou! (unfortunately the website is only in french) and the snack is a crepe (it is similar to a pancake, but much better in my opinion). Whaou! has many types of crepes, but the ones I’ve eaten were Cracky Crepes Chocolat et Cereals.

    Hmmm… and now about the taste… It is just perfect! The chocolate is not very “milky” and doesn’t leave that milky aftertaste some chocolates do (which I hate). It is not too dark either, it is just the way I like it. Inside the crepe, mixed with the chocolate are some really crispy little cereal balls. The crepe itself is delicious and this mixture of the 3 ingredients (the crepe, the chocolate and the cereals) create an amazing experience of eating and taste… hmmm… yummy yummy.

    Unfortunately I couldn’t find them in Germany. 🙁 I think they are sold only in France (we’ve bought them from the french retail group Auchan). Next time I’m going to France I’m buying tons of packs of these crepes.

  • Comparison between Sonnentor BIO and Twinings ginger tea

    Comparison between Sonnentor BIO and Twinings ginger tea

    I drink tea daily and a lot of it is Twinings. I don’t think this is the best tea in the world, but I know that most of their mixes will be on my taste, so I just buy their tea from convenience.

    Everyone knows the benefits of fresh ginger and also ginger tea. People use to drink ginger tea when they have a cold, but I like to drink it all the time.

    First time I tried to make ginger tea by grating some fresh ginger and infusing it in hot water.

    Unfortunately, for me this was undrinkable. It was just way too intense and too spicy. I tried adding tons of honey and lemon juice, but nothing helped. I just couldn’t drink it.

    After this experience, I bought Twinings Lemon and Ginger Tea and my best friend bought also the Sonnentor BIO Ginger Tea just because this one was organic and the one from Twinings was not.

    What I liked about both of them

    • They are drinkable, not like the homemade tea I couldn’t bring myself to drink. They are not very spicy, nor intense, so there is no unpleasant feeling when you drink them.
    • They don’t contain caffeine, so you can drink them whenever you want, even before going to bed.
    • They seem to make me feel better. They are surely healthy.

    The differences

    • Twinings has a hint of lemon which makes it tastier than Sonnentor.
    • Twinings tea has a nicer color, whereas Sonnentor looks cloudy and is more pale.
    • Twinings has a more intense aroma, I definitely like it better.
    • Sonnentor is organic, but Twinings isn’t BIO and, although it is not clearly stipulated, I believe it has some artificial flavorings.

    The conclusion

    So, which one of these 2 ginger teas will I continue to buy?

    Normally, I should go for Sonnentor, since it is organic. But Twinings tastes and looks better and since I am not drinking tons of ginger tea, I will continue to buy Twinings. If I will be sick and have to drink a lot of ginger tea, I don’t think I would drink neither of these 2 teas. I will try to make my own ginger tea from real ginger, but this next time I will put less ginger. Until then, I am healthy enough to drink Twinings 🙂 .

     

  • REVIEW: Mixed feelings about Ferrero ValParaiso Chocolate

    REVIEW: Mixed feelings about Ferrero ValParaiso Chocolate

    This week I tried 3 different types of Ferrero ValParaiso Chocolate. I usually like Ferrero products and I kind of expected these ones to be tasty. I was happy to find these little packages because I’ve seen the big ones before but I didn’t want to buy them since I didn’t know which flavor to choose and if I would like them.

    What I liked

    The good thing about these chocolates is that the chocolate itself is good quality. Also, I like the fact that the filling is 99% fruit. Another good thing is that they are not extremely sweet.

    What I didn’t like

    What I didn’t like was that there was too much filling and no wafer or something similar, like a buffer between the chocolate and the fruit. I don’t know why, but I thought it would be crispy, but since there was no “buffer”, it wasn’t crispy at all. The whole experience of eating it was not so spectacular.

    Favorite flavor

    In fact, the flavors are pretty similar. I can’t really say which one is my favorite. As you can read on the package, each one of them has an “Apfelbasis”, which means most of the filling consists in apple. So there it is, the apple taste in all of the packages, with slightly different aromas.

    Will I repurchase?

    Maybe the Mango one, in the Summer, because its taste is more fresh than the others and it reminds me of a relaxing cocktail on the beach…

  • My favorite non-alcoholic beer: Clausthaler unfiltered

    My favorite non-alcoholic beer: Clausthaler unfiltered

    I really like non-alcoholic beer: it is refreshing in summer, nourishing in winter and have tons of health benefits. Unfortunately, I had hard times trying to find a non-alcoholic beer to match my taste.

    I am not a gourmet expert and I don’t know how to express the things that I don’t like in a regular non-alcoholic beer. It lacks something, it has too much of something else, its consistency is strange, my tongue would feel odd… Does this make any sense?

    A certain period of time I’ve drunk radlers (half beer, half lemon juice – or some other juice) but I didn’t like them very much because: 1. They did contain alcohol and 2. Too much sugar. I don’t like consuming sugary food on a daily basis, plus I don’t think it is healthy either.

    Clausthaler unfiltered – the taste

    I was extremely content when I discovered the Clausthaler unfiltered, dry hopped, non-alcoholic, beer. Yet again, I can’t really describe the taste and why I prefer this one to the other non-alcoholic beers, but it is more consistent and the taste is more temperate. It certainly doesn’t taste like a normal beer, you can feel the lack of alcohol taste, but I like it even more this way.

    Its history

    Clausthaler unfiltered is a german premium non-alcoholic beer, produced in Germany. I think it is important to know that unlike other beer companies, they produced, from the beginning, non-alcoholic beers. This is their specialty. And they are very good at it.

    How much does it cost and where to find it?

    In Germany, I buy it from normal stores. I pay around 1 EUR for a 0.33 bottle. I think it is easy to find it anywhere in Europe. Before I started to write this article I googled this beer to see what other people say about it. I was surprised to see Australians and Americans complaining that they don’t find it in their countries.

    Did you drink the Clausthaler non-alcoholic beer? If yes, what do you think about it?

  • Cutest Guacamole Recipe [Not Really a Recipe]

    Cutest Guacamole Recipe [Not Really a Recipe]

    Have you ever wondered how guacamole is made?

    Is there any “recipe” for guacamole?

    Where does it come from? What’s its origin?

    Well, I did wonder and this was the answer:

    In Mexico there is this tiny animal and his name is Cucaracha. This animal, although its name could be translated into English as “Cockroach”, doesn’t in fact have nothing to do with the insect. Cucaracha is a cute little animal, a little bit furry, who wears a big mexican hat. He is very friendly and brave. He always has a gun and he defends Mexico when needed. The girls are crazy about him.

    No one has succeeded in photographing Cucaracha. He likes to keep some mistery around him, but those who’ve seen him, describe him saying that he has certain similarities to Speedy Gonzales.

    Now, about Guacamole, this tasty food that we eat with tortillas.
    Cucaracha’s most favorite food is avocado. Each day he eats a few avocados and, after a while, he poops Guacamole and this is how Guacamole is made.This is the original recipe to make Guacamole and if you’re willing to taste the original one, you must go to Mexico and find Cucaracha.
    If Cucaracha is in a really good mood, after pooping Guacamole he will dance around it singing “La Cucaracha”.

    * Although I made up this story and obviously it is not a true Mexican story, I like to think there is indeed a little tiny and cute animal in Mexico, called Cucaracha, and maybe when I will visit Mexico, somehow we will meet 🙂 *