Recipes From Your Coffee Maker

!9# Recipes From Your Coffee Maker

If you love your coffee, you will love dishes made from coffee. There are many dishes that use the wonderful taste of coffee as their main component. Let your coffee maker help you prepare your meals.

Most people think of using coffee to make desserts-and there are great recipes for that-but coffee adds a distinctive flavor to many other dishes as well. You can make barbecue sauces and glazes for meats, and put coffee in chili and pot roast recipes, to name a few.

Just as you use other fresh ingredients in your recipes, you should be sure the coffee you use is fresh. Either buy freshly ground coffee or grind your own, with your coffee grinding machine. If the recipe calls for brewed coffee, brew it just before you use it; don't use your leftover coffee for this. Most of the recipes using coffee use coffee that is 2-3 times stronger than drinking coffee, since the flavor is going to be blended. So here are a few of the wonderful recipes using coffee:

Coffee Meatloaf Sauce: Add a tablespoon of instant coffee to a blend of the following ingredients: a quarter cup of water, a half a cup of ketchup, a quarter cup of dry red wine, a quarter cup of Worcestershire sauce, two teaspoons of vinegar, an ounce of margarine, two tablespoons of lemon juice and a teaspoon of brown sugar. Cook your favorite meatloaf recipe, but after about 1/2 hour of cooking, pour this sauce over it and continue baking for 45 minutes more at 375 degrees (190C) for tender, delicious meatloaf.

Espresso Brownies: Gently heat a cup of sugar, a quarter teaspoon of salt, and a stick and a half of butter in a sauce pan; add a teaspoon of vanilla, four ounces of chopped, semi-sweet chocolate and stir until melted in. Add a tablespoon of dark roast coffee. If you would like to add a crunch, add two teaspoons of espresso granules. Mix everything together and let cool, fold in three eggs and a cup of flour. Pour into a rectangular baking pan, bake for 30 minutes and set out to cool. Perfect brownies every time!

Black Russian Cake: Make dark chocolate cake mix, your own or from a box, and add a cup of vegetable oil, a package of instant chocolate pudding, four eggs, and a half a cup of creme de cacao. To this mix, add a cup of Russian coffee. (A cup of black coffee with an ounce of vodka and an 1/2 ounce of Kahlua added.) Beat well and put into a tube pan and bake for 45 minutes. Your guests will love this switch from Black Forest Cake.

You can even enjoy great cocktails using coffee; Kahlua is only one of many. If you want to be able to add coffee to just about everything you like, try making your own coffee syrup.

There's even a recipe for coffee syrup. Combine a cup of sugar with a cup of double strength Colombian coffee. Boil, stirring constantly until the sugar dissolved. Lower heat, simmer and stir for three minutes, then cool. You can put this flavoring into almost any of your favorite dishes and add the special touch of coffee.

Recipes From Your Coffee Maker

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How to Unclog a Coffee Maker

!9# How to Unclog a Coffee Maker

Cleaning your coffee maker is important. There are so many things that can get clogged in your brewer over time. Cleaning just the exterior part of the machine will not ensure that it will work seamlessly for many years.

Mold, for instance, is one of your enemies. With the moist and humid environment inside the brewer, molds can easily grow there. Also, lime sediments can easily develop especially if you are using tap water and the water filtration system of your brewer cannot efficiently remove all the hard minerals.

If you notice clogging happening in your brewer, you can always try the following cleaning steps:

Step 1: Fill up the water tank of your brewer with one part of water and one part vinegar. Place the water tank back to the coffee machine and then resume to placing the required coffee filter, coffee basket and water filter in the brewer.

Step 2: Plug the brewer and then set up the programming cycle. Set it up to the usual programming cycle you are using. Once you have already done the usual brewing preliminaries, you can now place the carafe beneath the drip spout and then turn it on.

Step 3: Let the vinegar pass through the inside of the coffee machine. This will dissolve the impurities mentioned above. Also, this helps a lot in removing stale odor from coffee oil residues.

Step 4: Once this process is over, you can see the debris from your brewer not collected in the carafe. You need to run one more vinegar solution cycle if it is too dirty. Afterwards, try to run just a water cycle. If it is working well you can now clean the exterior of the machine.

Step 5: Unplug the brewer and let it cool down for a few minutes before cleaning the detachable parts. Clean them using soapy water and then let them dry before putting them back on again.

Do this once a week as coffee residues tend to collect easily inside the brewer. You can also substitute vinegar with lemon juice or any citrus juice. Some people do not like the lingering smell of vinegar.

If you like citrus scent more, this would be a more ideal cleaning solution for you. Now you can use your brewer again without worrying about clogging. Taking care of your coffeemaker will help prolong its life so you can use it for more years to come.

How to Unclog a Coffee Maker

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