Coffee Talk with Crooks and Coffee
Mindfulness Monday: How to wake up with the birds
If you've been following along our social media, for awhile now we have been sharing the occasional "Mindfulness Monday" tips and tools on ways to ...
Don't give up your coffee money! Make handmade Galentine's gifts for under $10
Focus on creating mindful gifts, while being mindful of your spending. Being thrifty is a great practice that can benefit everyone (and the environment!) in a positive way. Usually, whenever I hear someone talk about starting to budget or how to plan for expenses, I hear the old advice “give up your coffee money”.
Ummm, what? I don’t think so.
Mindfulness Monday - "The Golden Rule"
Do no harm, but take no shit.
Have you heard this one? Call it what you want, we all have to deal with a degree of "it" in life. To be honest, I ...
5 Ways to Reduce Stress This Holiday Season (Plus a Peppermint Mocha Recipe!)
We’ve seen the headlines. Over and over there have been studies published recently about holiday stress and the cost of creating a magical holiday. The very last thing I would ever want is to hear that the holidays are anything less than beautiful for you, so today I’m going to talk about five easy, quick ways you can continue to practice self-care this season.
5 Steps to a Better Latte at Home (Plus three fall coffee recipes!)
Fall is here and if you’re anything like me, you’re already trying to insert pumpkin and caramel into everything you consume. Thankfully, Crooks + ...
Highlander Grogg Butterscotch Caramel Mug Cookie
If you've spent any time around the Crooks + Coffee community, you'd pretty quickly hear a strong fan club for the beloved Highlander Grogg flavor. It's a wonderful mix of butterscotch, caramel and vanilla. You can easily drink it black or mix in cream for an extra decadent cup of coffee. So, that got me thinking, if this coffee is the perfect mix of sweet, wouldn't it also make the perfect dessert? So I decided to grab my favorite cookie in a mug recipe from another blogger, Number 2 Pencil, and adapt it to the Highlander Grogg flavors!
5 Ways to Recycle Coffee Grounds
As coffee lovers, there’s something we always have in our kitchen every single day: used coffee grounds. If you’ve been tossing them in the garbage every day or use some for compost, but don’t know what to do with the rest, I have a whole heap of ideas for recycling those grounds today from beauty products to garden maintenance.
How to Start Journaling: Maximize your Coffee Break
Why do I think that's important? Because I have two strong beliefs related to my coffee break:
- That first smell of coffee brewing is one of the best parts of the day and brings an immediate calming breath to me. Then it would fade and the stress of the day would kick right in.
- When someone talks about "self-care", I used to swear I "don't have time for that" and laugh it off. But at the same time, I was stressed and complaining all I did was take care of others all. the. time.
How Does the Coffee get Made? Behind the Scenes
A few weeks ago, I had to pleasure of not only meeting Crooks and Coffee owner, Dianna Chandler, but also getting a peek at the roasting process that goes into our favorite coffees! So, today, I'm going to show you a quick peek at what we learned and saw!
How to Make Better Cold Brew with Iced Coffee Cubes
Do you ever make a cup of iced coffee, add ice and by the time you get halfway down the cup, it's basically murky water and cream? It's never fun to take the time to make delicious cold brew and have it ruined by melting ice cubes. However, I also really love ice and have a tendency to load any glass I have with ice. So, I decided to try to make some coffee ice cubes and well, something tells me I'll be doing that alllll summer long!
3 Coffee Inspired Ideas for your Gift Giving Occassion
This week we have a guest post by Melanie Warner Spencer, enjoy and be sure to check more info and links on where to find her at the bottom!
We all...
30+ Ideas for your Summer Bucket List
This year, we decided to go all out and make a summer bucket list. We usually have a loose one that we go off of in our heads, but this year, we decided to make something a little more formal so we wouldn’t as easily brush things off that we wanted to do. Now, we have a list that we can check off and add to as the summer goes on. So I wanted to bring ya’ll a few tips and ideas to get your own minds reeling for summer!
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