Friday, September 21, 2007

Tim Hortons Iced Capp 調查



「前言」
在北美住過的人應該都知道Tim Horton這一家連鎖輕食店,他們主要的產品為甜甜圈,各式糕餅,三明治,以及咖啡。我是一個完全討厭喝咖啡的人,但連我都受不了Tim Hortons賣的Iced Cappuccino(卡布其諾冰沙)。當然目前在台灣是沒有Tim Hortons的分店,所以我決定來找一下有沒有人提供它的作法,看可不可以在家DIY一下。
順便找到了一堆囉哩八唆的密辛一起貼上來。


「簡介(轉貼官網)」

Iced Cappuccino

Tim Hortons Iced Capp is the creamy, deep down cool treat that you can enjoy with chocolate, or 2% milk. Even add one of our chillicious flavours*, like: French Vanilla, Hazelnut and Butter Caramel.



「食譜①」

2 盎司 滾水
2 大匙 即溶咖啡(普通或無咖啡因)
2 大匙 糖(或代糖)
4-6 冰塊
1/3 杯 18% 淡味鮮奶油(或是巧克力牛奶...或普通牛奶)


「食譜②」
BA MY FRIEND WHO WORKS AT TIMMY"S SAYS U CAN MAKE IT AT HOME BY TAKING CAP MIX AND 2 IC CUBES AND SOME THICK CREAM. YOU MAKE DA CAPPACINO FIRST DEN YA CRUSH DA ICE AND PUT IN THE CREAM AND CAPPACINO AND BLENNDDD AND DEN ENJOY UR LITTLE TASTE OF HEAVENNN!!!!
(簡譯:在家裏做可以用cap mix,冰塊,和奶油。先泡好咖啡,將冰用果汁機攪碎,再加入奶油跟咖啡然後打一打就可以了)


「食譜③」
材料:
1 Folgers Coffee Single(類似茶包,但是是咖啡)
2 大匙 Folgers即溶咖啡
1 包 Swiss Miss French Vanilla mix
8 包 代糖
2 1/2 杯 冰塊
鮮奶油(我用噴霧罐那種)

First, in a small sauce pan, add 12 ounces of water and the Folgers coffee bag. I brewed mine on medium for about 15 minutes until it was very dark. You know, expresso-like.

Add the Equal packets and stir until dissolved. Add the Swiss Miss packet and stir until dissolved. Add the instant coffee and … come on, you can figure it out …

Remove from heat, pour into a heat and cold-proof container and place in the refrigerator to cool. I used the freezer because I was impatient, I pulled it out a couple of times and stirred to further accelerate the cooling process. All told, maybe 20 minutes elapsed before I decided to forge on …

In a blender, add 1 ½ cups of ice and pre-blend until your blender can’t handle it any more. Then add ½ the cooled mixture and blend. Ok, it’s a bit dark, right? So was my first try. Then I added another ½ cup of ice and a shot of milk (about an ounce or two) and blended again. Much closer, but still a bit strong, so I added another ½ cup of ice and another shot of milk, plus about 1” of whipped cream on top in the blender. Blend really, really well.

IMHO, close enough to save me $2.89 at least once a day. Not to mention the closes Tim Hortons is 15 minutes up the highway.


Give it a try, and report back on what you think. Just don’t bash it too bad if you substitute items and then claim it’s nasty. Like Folgers –vs- Maxwell House .

One other thing – this will give us ‘addicts’ the ability to control the caffeine levels – something we couldn’t do the ‘over-the-counter’ ice caps. The Folgers coffee singles and instant coffee are both available in decaffeinated versions.


Tim Hortons密辛:
First, we use 18% cream from Neilson Dairy. It's actually quite disgusting to install these creamer bags, because you can feel how fatty they are (not to mention the smell, anyone else who works there shares my pain)

Second, the Icde Cap is made with 1 part icdecap concentrate to 3 parts water. As to what is in the iced-cap concentrate, I couldn't say. I just know its brown, comes in bags and is mixed in a bucket with water. The machine does all the freezing.

The reason why some of you get wattery icde caps is because of the fact the machines can only hold so much frozen iced-cap in the line. After about 3 or 4 mediums, the machine starts to get runny because it hasn't had time to freeze. This is why if you ask for one and we say the machine is down, it's likely because it is not frozen.

The reason why Tim Hortons is without an apostrophe is because of the fact that Tim's wife thretened to sue Ron Joyce (CEO) if he did not change the name, after the comapny was given to Ron (Tim's buddy). He then changed it from Tim Horton's to Tim Hortons. Ever since Wendy's bought us out, the quality has gone down hill. I mean, its always fresh, yet everything is frozen. Everything from the mini cakes to bagels, donuts, timbits, chili and cookies (which are then put onto trays to bake.

To the person comlaining about runny icedcaps saying "please talk to the staff", this is not our fault that the machines are not freezing quickly enough to meet the demands of our customers. Let's just say, if you see the guy infront of you in line ordering 10 icedcaps, yours will without a doubt be runny! In the summer, we get numerous complaints that people have driven aroudn to find a Timmies whose iced caps aren't runny. It's because the machines take about 10-15 minutes to freeze the cap. mix.

The Cream Cheese which is used is from some Lactonian company (can't remember the name exactly). I'd be surprised if it was expired considering it lasts for a few months, yet a new shipment is brought in every week. It would be over exagerating to say there is 1/2 a box of cream cheese left before the truck comes in

Posted by: Sean | October 20, 2005 at 05:35 PM

Monday, September 10, 2007

HELLCATPUNKS 代購

HELLCATPUNKS應該是喜歡日系龐克的人都聽過的牌子
第一次請人幫我代購
費用是一件300(是有點心痛)
不過東西很快就寄來了,還蠻興奮的

看起來一點也不像裝了四件商品的袋子


內容物,每一件都分別用HCP的購物袋裝著,還「細心」的用訂書機訂起來,不愧是日本人
(太過了吧.......拆封花的時間有點久....|||)


アクリルピラミッドリストバンド【壓克力卯釘護腕】
我抵抗不了紅+黑,一定要敗的,只可惜size有點大...


UネックT-SH「スカルズ ステッカー」【U領T恤「骷髏貼紙」】


ドット柄パフスリーブポロシャツ「HCPマリア」【點點砰砰袖POLO衫「HCP瑪利亞」】


這一件是多買的,現正拍賣中 = =

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Candy Sugar 日本高校生皮書包

從幾個月前就一直在找一個實用(口袋要多),好看,又龐克風能用的包包
網拍看了很久,不是不好看就是不實用
之前好不容易看到一個好一點的,Algonquins的包包
一萬八日幣不是重點,而是我看到的時候已經SOLD OUT = =|||

上禮拜回家路上,看到一個路人拿著一個黑色的包包上面有個蝴蝶結的logo
就被驚豔到了,決定要它!

經過多方尋找,才發現原來那個包包來自於一個專門做日本高校女生用品的牌子,叫做Candy Sugar
馬上就GO買下去囉~
由於是工廠外流的貨,只要五個國父多一點
以一個有型又是日本貨的包包來說,算相當划算^^


先看一下外型,右下有個蝴蝶結


背面


前面夾層裡面小袋子蠻多的


主夾層放的下一個NB了,還有特別貼心設計一個放飲料的圓形袋袋


把家當放進去,手機袋放的下兩隻手機^^


飲料袋不幸變成了我的髮夾+護唇膏袋


背起來的樣子+上Kera Shop骷髏兔子飾品



【質地】︰合成皮,好像有抹油一樣很亮
【用途】︰單肩包
【尺寸】︰寬38,高27,底寬10,手柄22.

【優點】︰有型!底部設計放地上也很穩;內容量非常大;可是不放東西扁扁的也不會難看;口袋很多,手機袋大
【缺點】︰太重了......都還沒放什麼東西肩膀就開始酸;對於嬌小的Tosh來說這個包包實在是有點太大;因為是皮的,夏天用可能有點熱;背帶會擋住前面夾層,背著取物有點不方便

無論如何背著它還是感覺很有型,就先讓肩膀適應一下囉~

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

WoW桌面主題

在找部落格的banner,無意間看到WoW的桌面主題 World of Warcraft Desktop Theme,下載來玩玩看。

成品長這樣:

一開始很新鮮,但用沒多久就感覺不習慣
想說還是改回原來的,就要將他卸載
本來自己照了一張桌面圖準備分享,沒想到一卸載,電腦死當了......................圖也不見了。

重起電腦,可惡的東西又出現了!!
馬上解除安裝
此時電腦非常lag,還以為又要死當了。
不過幸好,終於順利解除安裝,然後還要再重開機一遍。
解完桌面並不會恢復到原先的樣子,而是變成預設值了,又要設定。

結論這是一個非常不推的東西 -0-