Holiday Treats from the Food Librarian

Here are a few holiday treats you might want to make for your friends and family this holiday season. I can't believe the holidays are here already!

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Broken Glass Jello

Always a huge hit and so easy to make. Give yourself at least a day in advance to let the Jello set up...but your hands-on labor is only about 15 minutes!

Cafe Beaujolais' Buttermilk-Cinnamon Coffeecake

This is a great coffee cake to have on hand for visitors or overnight guests during the holiday. It feeds a lot of people and is simple to make...you may have all the ingredients handy. Last year, my uncle ate three pieces during our mochi making!

Baked Pumpkin Doughnut Muffins

Pumpkin pie is great and all...but these little donut-y muffins are divine. Have the kids help you roll them in cinnamon sugar...Santa will want to grab a few of these.

Noodle Kugel

My friend's mom makes this delicious noodle kugel for Hanukkah! (Note to Mrs. S - I miss you and hope to see you soon!!!)

Chocolate Rice Krispies with Bittersweet Chocolate Drizzle

Dressed up rice krispies. Yum! You can make these while the kids are running around. Hey, make they work a bit by stirring together this easy treat.

Happy Holidays! - mary

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Sunday Morning Coffee in Space

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Barefoot Contessa's Apple Cake Tatin

Barefoot Contessa's Apple Cake Tatin

Apples.
Cake.
Caramel.
I'm there.

This is the Barefoot Contessa / Ina Garten's Apple Cake Tatin. Instead of the usual pie crust topping, she covers the apples and caramel with a cake.

I used these beautiful sweet/tart apples from Ha's Apple Farm (available at many So Cal farmer's markets). Ina's recipe calls for Granny Smith apples, but these worked fine and were delicious.

Caramelized sugar is made (I'm always amazed that water and sugar can be heated to make this!) and tops the cut apples. I judged it by color and didn't use the thermometer. The presentation of the cake is very pretty, no?

Um, how can you not want this?!

The "cake" part is very delicious. Soft and light...I like it much more than a traditional apple tatin, but then I love upside down fruit cakes!

This fall/winter, if you have a few extra apples, make this lovely cake. You won't be disappointed...nor will your guests!

Recipe:
Barefoot Contessa's Apple Cake Tatin

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Christmas gifts

As the merry season is upon us, we've gathered a few gift ideas for the coffee interested.

Both stores have the gift box with 3 Weeks From Kieni at just 250,-

You can also buy 6 small cappuccino cups + a bag of Espresso for 250,- (save 54,-)

We also have the Hario Skerton hand grinder. If you don't know it, it's an awesome little manual grinder with ceramic burrs. At 325,- it's an amazing product and great for travelleing too.

If you want to try more coffees we have our Taster Pakke for 260,with 4 different Direct Trade coffees.

In Torvehallerne we're now selling the Hario V60 and filters. You can get it as a package with a bag of coffee for just 175,- The perfect hostess gift. Includes our little V60 brew guide.

At Jægersborggade we've stocked up on Aeropress and they are only 238,- also including a brew guide.

We hope that leaves you with some options to put under the Christmas tree!

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2011 L.A. Cancer Challenge - Halloween 5K

2011 L.A. Cancer Challenge - Halloween 5K

I'm way late in posting this, but I want to keep track of my 5Ks! Near Halloween, my friend Dave and I ran the 2011 L.A. Cancer Challenge. This run raised funds for the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research.

They had a 10K and 5K...my friend Dave (of the marathon Davey Pops) ran BOTH. First the 10K, then a short rest and ran the 5K with me! Amazing. And he did it dressed up as Fred Flintstone! My cardio needs much improvement so I walked up most of the hills around the VA in West LA.

Finally, this poster for Team Linda reminds us why the were all there. Cancer, you suck.

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Torrance Turkey Trot 5K

Torrance Turkey Trot 5K

My running buddy and long-time UCLA friend, Dave and I ran the Torrance Turkey Trot again. Last year, it was my first 5K! After a year of running on and off, my endurance still sucks, but I'm plugging away. Next year, I hope I can finish without walking.

The City of Torrance's run is pretty big for a Thanksgiving morning Turkey Trot (almost 4,000 people). I took some photos of these runners who dressed up for the holiday!

I love the Turkey Trot because it's basically an all-you-can-eat pass for the day. ;)

I'm signing up for the Manhattan Beach Christmas Day evening beach run (everyone gets a glo necklace!) so I can eat lots more pie. Hee hee.

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Past Present and Future

The fact and fiction about cave people, Phoebe contemplates the idea of being big, more of what Willy wouldn’t do and a mistake creates a Giant Head! Also, a visit with Brian from Milwaukee and Pete has his NFL game of the week.

Songs
Ugly Duckling by Jungle Fever

Music on this show provided by Music Alley. You can find link to purchase both songs featured on the show their. Please do so and support independent music!

email:

coffeewithjeff@gmail.com

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