by Nathan Jones

Created on: November 22, 2008   Last Updated: December 15, 2008

Coffee is one of the world's greatest phenomenons. Coffee has many different ways to quench caffeine lover's cravings. Stores such, Starbucks, Borders Bookstore, Barnes and Noble, and Bruegger's, compete for the world's greatest flavor. A small coffee runs anywhere between $1.00-$1.80, at any of these stores. With market at a standstill, improvisations are important for survival. This article will show some great recipes for people that love coffee, but do not want to spend the fancy prices.

I like to use hot chocolate, for that mocha sensation. Hot chocolate, is good with a regular house coffee, and can make any coffee, fancy and expensive tasting. I usually take a dairy creamer, and I make my own flavors, using ingredients such as, vanilla, dairy creamer, white zinfandel for those that drink, ice cream, and syrup, just to name a few. According to your own tastes, these fun recipes allow time for families to stay home, and enjoy the same luxuries as going out to Borders or Bruegger's.

For dieters, I suggest, using fruits, and condensing them as minute as possible. I like to take fresh cocoa with no sugar, and vanilla extracts or honey as sweetener. If you moderately apply to the sweeteners, you can adjust to a more realistic taste of sweeteners, without the hazards. Another fun one is straight whip cream, lemons, and a dairy creamer like Irish cream, hazelnut or pumpkin. This is my lemon meringue version, of coffee, and can also be made at home.

My smoothies are with straight dairy creamers, star fruits, oranges, lemons, and limes, papayas, and bananas. I use a lot of ice, and apply honey very carefully for the taste. Give this recipe time, so that the creamers thicken, and it can turn into ice creamer properly. If this is properly stirred adding a little dairy milk, for flavor, it is as good as Baskin and Robbins.

For those that want to spend a little money for fun, the macchiato is my favorite. White Chocolate is good, especially with a strong mocha, but preferably with an exotic coffee for flare. I have always enjoyed a great black coffee from a South American country, that carries a rich flavor that and strong reputation. Exotic coffee is always perfect for dates, and family arrangements, because they are treated as wines and are fun to enjoy.

Coffee is followed thousands of years ago in Africa, and is one of the United States greatest food consumer's products. With tales of desert mirage heroics, and the great Juan Valdez as the spokesperson for Columbia coffee, coffee has emerged into a great time with everything. Using simple cappuccino machines, to give coffee at home the flavor of stores.

Coffee and other kinds of flavored store drinks, can be improvised in your home, and can have the same tastes as they at professional coffee shops. I hope that you have found new ways to make coffee drinks, in your home, and that you can enjoy coffee without hurting your body.

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