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Our grapefruit convert

Chili Queen — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:27:28 +0000

You know what’s really great on a hot and hazy day (and we’ve been having plenty of those lately)? For me, it’s been grapefruit juice. Yes, very exotic, right? Sounds like something you might sip as you relax in those claw foot tubs.

I squeeze my grapefruit juice fresh and drink it right away. My daughter was never a big fan of grapefruit until she had a sip and now she’s hooked. We can’t buy grapefruits fast enough and they’re on my grocery list every week. How’s that even possible for someone who’s been going yuck at grapefruits all these years?

Strawberries and Cream ice blended

Chili Queen — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:21:07 +0000

We were at Coffee Bean last weekend and my girls decided to try their Strawberries and Cream ice blended. It’s a coffee free drink suitable for kids, the young at heart or just for a change.

This Strawberries and Cream drink tastes like something right out of my childhood days. It’s creamy sweetness reminds me of candy floss and interestingly, seemed to transport us away from the familiar Coffee Bean environment of laptops and routers. Have you tried this flavor before?

Chinese tea freak

Chili Queen — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:52:37 +0000

Right, here’s what I drink every day. Chinese tea. Love the taste. Love the fact that it reduces the fatty effect of oily foods. Love that there are so many flavors to choose from, each interesting and tasty in its own way.

I went to a tea exposition a few weeks ago and bought 3 canisters of oolong and puer tea. I love those colorful designs on the canisters which I kinda think of as metal buildings for housing the dried tea leaves.

I brew a different flavor of Chinese tea every day. I kinda like to surprise myself, so it could be puer one day, oolong the next, jasmine the next.

Father’s Day gift idea below $40: Father’s Day Beer-B-Q Bucket

Chili Queen — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:39:20 +0000

Father’s Day Beer-B-Q Bucket

Our Beer-B-Q Buckets are the perfect Father’s Day gifts for Dad this year!

This reusable stainless steel bucket is stocked with everything Dad needs to put on a gourmet barbeque meal.

These Father’s Day gift baskets include gourmet beef & burger rub, chicken & poultry rub, and pork & BBQ rub along with three delicious summer beers including Corona, Sam Adams Seasonal, and Leinenkugel’s Sunset Wheat.

So, if you want to send a Father’s Day Gift that your favorite Dad will really enjoy, send him a basket that is the perfect combination of Beer and BBQ !

Father’s Day gift idea below $100: 19th Hole Gourmet Golfing Gift Basket

Chili Queen — Sat, 28 May 2011 14:43:52 +0000

Father’s Day Golfing Gift Basket – 19th Hole

Another example from our outstanding collection of Fathers Day Gifts, the 19th Hole Gourmet Golfing Gift Basket is a treasure trove of gourmet golf treats elegantly gift-wrapped in a beautiful beer bucket.

Inside, Dad will find a six back of Heineken Keg cans accompanied by a collection of award-winning gourmet foods perfect for Father’s Day including solid chocolate golf balls, beef jerky, golf cookies, peanut butter pretzel nuggets, cashews, roasted peanuts, cashews, mint chip malt balls, golf snack mix, honey mustard pretzel dip and dipping pretzels.

This is an outstanding Father’s Day gift basket for any dad that loves to hit the links!

Tea lover

Chili Queen — Wed, 18 May 2011 09:39:49 +0000

I enjoy me a good cup of green tea every now and then. When I’m eating out at a Japanese restaurant, green tea is, of course, the default drink. At home, I sometimes brew a pot so my kids can have a few sips though they aren’t really fond of it.

Green tea is supposedly very good for you. It works as a detox and antioxidant. It lowers your cholesterol level, burns fat and fighting off major diseases. It promises countless other health benefits as well, too many to name. Who knows, it may even work as a Hormone replacement therapy but don’t quote me on that.

I love all types of tea and drink them for their taste. If they come with health benefits, then that’s definitely a bonus, isn’t it?

Cool drinks

Chili Queen — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:39:43 +0000

These are hot days we’re having. And my weakness is spicy food. Add those two together and you almost have a recipe for heatiness. So the next best thing is to drink some cooling drinks to keep the heat away. For the teens, these drinks work as a very effective eczema treatment as well.

My favorites are:

young coconut fresh in the shell
sugar cane juice (wish I could have a glass now!)
chrysanthemum tea
honey lime or honey lemon
iced lemon tea.

What are your favorites?

big pots of soya bean milk

Chili Queen — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:46:06 +0000

These are blazing hot, sunny days we’re having with little reprieve. If you can’t run away from the heat and make like a piece of office furniture in an air-conditioned building, what’s the next best thing to do? Why, have a cool, refreshing glass of soya bean milk, of course!

For the past two weekends, I’ve been brewing big pots of my very own homemade soya bean milk. I don’t have the machine which I understand makes only one cup each time. Not enough for us . We do everything big!

A huge big pot of soya bean milk makes me a few jugs and barely costs me a few bucks. I stick it in the fridge and it’s all gone, guzzled (burp!) by morning. It’s so ridiculously inexpensive and healthy I can’t resist making lots of it ! Cheers!

jolly, really?

chili queen — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:54:46 +0000

Once a year, during Chinese New Year, I allow my kids to drink Jolly Shandy which during the year, is a ‘controlled’ item in my household .

So you can imagine how my kids took the opportunity to max out on my generosity. They consumed a whole crate of it in the past month!!

I swear they won’t be laughing when I make them go through a mandatory colon cleanse, I tell ya. They’re going to wish they hadn’t been so crazy and polished off a whole crate when I wasn’t looking!

how do you like your coffee?

chili queen — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:18:05 +0000

Sometimes if I’m lazy or busy reading something boring on the internet about hemorrhoid treatment or whatever, I’ll ask one of my teens to make me a cup of coffee.

On days when I’m in a rush, I simply whip up my 3-in-1 coffee from a sachet. Very easy but maybe too sweet. Otherwise I make my instant coffee myself.

Well, I normally like it fairly strong with milk (not cream) and just enough sugar to light up my tastebuds and a nice dash of cinnamon . How do you like your coffee?