While my blog's Holiday Gift Guide won't officially kickoff until Black Friday, I thought I would a feature a review for a nifty gift idea that would be perfect for a friend or family member that is hard to buy for.

Earlier this month, I was sent the Espresso & Coffee Candy & Mugs Set which features 2 Antique Vintage Green Cups, 1 Balis Best Espresso Candy (5.3 oz bag), Balis Best Coffee Candy (5.3 oz bag), 1 Dual Speed Hand-held Milk Frother and a Coffee Clip/Scoop. The set is being sold on Amazon for $31.97!

Being a big coffee drinker, I do have several mugs; some I collect and others I drink out of. The two green mugs in this set are high-quality with a very simple design. I especially like the rustic color around the brim each of cup.

I had been using a small plastic tablespoon to scoop my coffee grounds, which I sometimes accidentally misplace. This Coffee Clip/Scoop is well-constructed and features an extra long handle, which you can use to clip onto a coffee bag, so maybe I won't lose this one.

The Dual Speed Hand-held Milk Frother is well-constructed too. If features two speeds - Low and High. It requires two AA batteries (not included). A frother is used to foam milk for hot chocolate or it can be used to foam creams for coffee drinks.

My love for coffee is no secret on here, so it shouldn't be a much a surprise that I wanted to review the Adrano, Brazil Volcano Coffee from Heirloom Coffee, LLC.

What makes this coffee different from the others that I've tried?

Well, for starters, this a bag of "green" coffee beans, meaning the beans haven't been roasted yet. Adrano is Heirloom Coffee's top specialty coffee. It's made from a blend of  Mundo Novo, Catuaí and Acaiá varieties of Arabica where it's grown on several small estates in the Pocos de Caldas volcanic caldera in Brazil. The soil there is enriched with volcanic minerals and rainforest soil as well as an abundance of nutrition and minerals, giving the coffee beans an unique taste.


I've never personally roasted coffee beans before, but after a quick internet search, I quickly learned how to. While I read about several different methods, I just covered a small amount of extra virgin olive oil in a frying pan and then scattered a handful of the coffee beans in the pan. On medium heat, I heated up the pan and placed a lid on it. Eventually, I started hearing crackling sounds, which means the beans were being roasted.

Besides from candy corn and other sweets that get center our full attention in stores, I almost forgotten about the flavored holiday coffees that are released around this time a year.

I've been under the weather for the past few days and I wasn't in the best spirits on Wednesday afternoon, well, that is until I received a package in the mail that contained a box of 40 single serve coffee cups of Brooklyn Bean Roastery: Pink Pumpkin (pumpkin vanilla flavored coffee) and my mood was somewhat lifted. The cups are compatible with most Keurig K-cup brewers (2.0 included).

Brooklyn Bean Roastery was founded in 2010, a company that offers a wide variety of Keurig-compatible filtered single serve coffee cups. They use a roast2cup process that makes every cup of coffee smooth and rich. Only the high quality 100% Arabica Coffee beans are used.

While I'm not the biggest fan of pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving, I do like pumpkin flavor coffees and creams. It was nice to sit down last week and drink a warm mug of pumpkin flavored coffee. No, the coffee isn't pink. It's only called that to represent breast cancer awareness.

Yep, here I am again writing another review for a whole bean coffee brand! I guess you can say that I'm a coffee addict, but I can't help myself from trying out different coffees.

I received the Coffee Colombian Roast Crazy Passion about a month about a month ago to rest out and review. It's made by CoffeeCrazy, the same people that makes the SalsaCrazy DVDs.

A lot of coffee beans and grounds tend to have unwanted chemicals in them, so it's great that this brand is organic! The 12 oz. bag is currently available on Amazon for $14.95.