In the winter months, my husband and I will occasionally eat baked potatoes and green salad for dinner. I dress up my baked potatoes with butter, salt & pepper, sour cream, salsa, grated cheddar cheese, and chives.
I use The Joy of Cooking’s method to bake potatoes: rub butter onto the skins: don’t wrap them in foil. The Joy of Cooking also suggests that one might bake potatoes on pan covered with rock salt: I use kosher salt because it’s there. The result is a drier, fluffier potato.
Liquids: mix together maple syrup, honey, olive oil (EVOO), vanilla extract, and cinnamon powder. Microwave 30 seconds to liquify the honey and then whisk.
Dry ingredients: old-fashioned oats, sliced almonds, walnut and pecan pieces, sunflower seeds, pepitas, and sesame seeds. 3 parts oats to one part sliced almonds; other ingredients as desired. Chia seeds, flaxseeds, and buckwheat kernels work great, too!
To make:
I use granola to top yoghurt and ice cream. I also eat it with milk as morning cereal, sometime soaking it in milk overnight for overnight oats or muesli.
JAB Holding Company also owns Caribou Coffee and has a controlling stake in Peet’s Coffee and Tea.
This is heresy in some quarters, but I don’t care for Krispy Kreme; however, Krispy Kreme, fresh from the fryer, is a revelation.
JAB Holding Company is buying Krispy Kreme Doughnuts for $21 a share, or about $1.35 billion.
Source: JAB is buying Krispy Kreme – Business Insider
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Need I say more?
Every Saturday and Sunday, I go to Starbucks for coffee (double tall latte) and breakfast breads. Starbucks very cleverly places the CD stand near the cashier as a point-of-purchase (POP). Starbucks CD compilations such as Jazz Impressionists, Prestige Jazz, and Blistering Licks! has exposed me to music I might otherwise not hear. The cashiers say that the CDs don’t sell particularly well, which was surprising, given that Starbucks has become a force in the music industry.
Starbucks’ current campaign has features about their coffee suppliers and artists from the Americas, whose items are available for purchase at Starbucks stores. For stationery lovers (like myself), there are notepads and notebooks featuring the bright and bold designs of self-taught artist Yamileth “Yami” Luna Arias. There are also coffee drinks flavored with dulce de leche, banana coffee cake with dulce de leche swirl, and mango and pineapple empanada.
However, the slogan I am Starbucks for this campaign is maladroit, especially for a company as marketing-savvy as Starbucks. It sound more like one of those damage control campaigns where a company bring out its employees to say what a great company it is (think Wal-Mart), when the company is facing a lot of bad press.
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