Ren Allen

Well...I posted something, but it got lost in cyberspace I
guess...once again......

Sierra (8) used to drink coffee once a week, after the Unity
service. Usually two cups.
Trevor (15)had me make it about once a week at home, but my French
Press got broken and I haven't replaced it yet. All three of my
older kids like getting a coffee drink if we're at a bookstore or
coffee shop.

For the most part, we're big tea drinkers. I'm famous for my Chai,
made from scratch of course.:) I use Cardoman, cloves, ginger,
cinnamon sticks, a wee bit of allspice and black pepper. This
mixture boils (covered) for 20 minutes, making the house smell
amazing...then we add whole milk and sweetener. Used to make it with
Soy milk and it was pretty good.

I actually talked about Tea in the conference handbook. :)

Ren

Sylvia Toyama

For the most part, we're big tea drinkers. I'm famous for my Chai, made from scratch of course.:) I use Cardoman, cloves, ginger, cinnamon sticks, a wee bit of allspice and black pepper. This mixture boils (covered) for 20 minutes, making the house smell amazing...then we add whole milk and sweetener. Used to make it with Soy milk and it was pretty good.

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would you be willing to share your recipe, Ren? I love chai, but my body won't tolerate caffiene, so my choices for buying it are limited. I'd love to make my own.

Sylvia




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Ren Allen

"Espresso drinks actually have less caffeine than regular drip coffee.
The taste
is so strong that you use very little in each drink, just a shot or
two."

I only learned this when I was visiting Alaska this summer! Never knew
it before.
Heidi and I were out at our hippy cousin's house...way out in the
hills around Fairbanks, where he was building onto his little lofted
cabin (with a garden on the ROOF) and he told us all kinds of coffee
facts while we sat and looked out over the valley.
His place was magical to me...I remember all the coffee lore we were
told that day.:) Very cool.

Ren

Christy Mahoney

"Chai" actually means tea in Turkish. We loved the tea in Turkey -
they serve it in small glasses instead of cups, and they always serve
it with sugar cubes. My girls got used to it when we were in Turkey,
but they rarely have it anymore. Brenna, my youngest, is 5, and she
occasionally will have a little coffee and dip sugar cubes in it, so
she basically has coffee-flavored sugar :)

My mom (who has 6 kids) used to leave coffee cups all over the house
and forget about them, and I actually used to LIKE drinking the cold
leftovers.

-Christy

frozenandcold

Bring up coffee and people start getting chatty!! Isn't it great?!
Sorry, I am one of those coffee addicts, like to just see the word on
the screen!

Both my ds drink coffee occassionally. We visit the coffee house
EVERY day and sometimes they order coffee and sometimes they order
italian sodas, depends what they are in the mood for.

And yes, it is true, a regular cup of coffee has more caffeine than
your shots of espresso. We did learn that from our "hippy" cousin and
I started paying attention to how I felt when I drank regular v. latte
and the regular definitely has more magic in it!!! :)

Any of you interested, there has been a show on the history of coffee
but I can't remember if it is on the history channel or the food
channel. I think it is on the history channel. We watched the last
part of it the other night, very interesting!

Heidi

Jessica Radtke

> My mom (who has 6 kids) used to leave coffee cups
> all over the house
> and forget about them, and I actually used to LIKE
> drinking the cold
> leftovers.

I used to do this with at my grandpa's house. He liked
so much sugar in his coffee that we used to joke about
him having "a little coffee in his sugar". When he was
done drinking his coffee there would be a THICK layer
of sugar syrup in the bottom of the cup. What a joy it
was to wash *those* cups after they'd been sitting on
the end table all day! LOL

I started drinking coffee when I was a kid, first by
taking sips of grandpa's cold coffee and later by
"tasting" my dad's when he would ask me to make him a
cup in the mornings while he got ready for work. When
I started "tasting" about half the cup he suggested
that maybe I should make myself a cup too. LOL

My son (9) has liked sipping my coffee (which I only
drink occasionally) since he was a toddler and has
been drinking coffee for a couple of years. He is
drinking a cup of cinnamon coffee with whipped cream
as I type this as a matter of fact. My daughter (16
months) on the other hand wrinkles up her nose and
vigorously shakes her head at it.

My son and I also love tea and alternate between
drinking various teas, coffee and teeccino (an herbal
coffee substitute that is actually very good). We
usually drink decaf though because I'm super caffeine
sensitive. We also LOVE chai! I like mine very peppery
with very little sugar or honey while ds likes his
less spicey and more sweet. I had a *wonderful*
pumpkin chai at a coffee shop recently. It tasted like
it had pumpkin pie spices in it rather than the usual
chai spices but it was *so* good and really hit the
spot on that cold night. A friend of mine also turned
me on to putting pure essential oils in my chai for
extra kick. Great for cold season too!

Hmmm...I just realized after typing up this long post
that I don't think I've introduced myself on this
list. I'm on lots of lists so I don't usually do the
intro thing until I'm ready to jump in on a
conversation, and I don't think I've done that here
yet. I'm Jessica, mom to ds Cameron and dd Catherine
and wife of almost 14 years to Dave. We have been an
unschooling family pretty much since my first child
was born, the exception being a brief period of time
recently when I lost my focus and we did a very
relaxed, eclectic homeschooling thing. It's a long
story but basically I came to my senses and realized
that I had strayed from our original path and because
of that we were all becoming unhappy. That's the
reason I've joined so many unschooling lists after all
these years of doing it on my own - I needed to get my
focus back on my family and on *real* learning. Since
I know no other unschoolers IRL I sought them out on
line.

Jessica in Indiana



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--- In [email protected], Jessica Radtke
<jessradtke@y...> wrote:
> We also LOVE chai! I like mine very peppery
> with very little sugar or honey while ds likes his
> less spicey and more sweet. I had a *wonderful*
> pumpkin chai at a coffee shop recently. It tasted like
> it had pumpkin pie spices in it rather than the usual
> chai spices but it was *so* good and really hit the
> spot on that cold night. A friend of mine also turned
> me on to putting pure essential oils in my chai for
> extra kick. Great for cold season too!
There's a cafe near us that uses pure Vermont maple syrup in place
of the honey in their chai latte - sweet but not as sweet as honey.
Umm I so look forward to that treat every once in a while
(okay "near" means it's about 5 minutes from MIL's house which is 20
minutes from our house but we take DS there most every Thursday
while DH and I have a date -which often consists of going to the
cafe and nestling onto their comfy loveseat with a couple of warm
beverages and talking for a couple hours - last time we were there,
they had to come remind us that they were closing soon lol).
--Deb