http://www.corridorkitchen.com Necessity is the mother of invention. Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:46:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/02/in-which-i-cut-back-on-coffee-a-giveaway/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/02/in-which-i-cut-back-on-coffee-a-giveaway/#comments Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:21:07 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=3074 Ok, so first off I am super, super excited about my new blog header! Yay! My amazing friend Amy, of Fenetik Designs designed it for me on the condition that I pay her in wine. And no, that is not an invitation for you to do that same should you ever need a talented graphic designer. But it is a testament to how awesome she is. I was so sick of my dodgy-looking diy job and now I finally know what it means when they say you should invest in professional work. Amy, thank you so so much for making Corridor Kitchen look like an actual blog, rather than something cobbled together in a wordpress-meets-ms-paint-meets-microsoft-word-kind-of-way (not that there’s anything wrong with that). So on to the competition! I’m giving one of you the chance to win the Philips Saeco Intelia, a fully automatic espresso machine that critics (ie myself and my boyfriend) are calling ‘pretty much ok.’ This machine retails for $999 and it’s no slouch. Quiet, efficient and mess and hassle free, it makes pretty good coffee if you use freshly roasted beans. To that end, I’m including a bag of freshly-roasted Campos Dark City blend to go with. Your welcome.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/02/in-which-i-cut-back-on-coffee-a-giveaway/feed/ 12 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/01/review-philips-saeco-intelia/ http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/01/review-philips-saeco-intelia/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:15:01 +0000 http://www.corridorkitchen.com/?p=2732 Intelia, which was handy as my ever faithful Sunbeam had been playing up. I’m skeptical when it comes to automatic coffee machines, not least because I’m a control freak bus also because I just can’t see a automatic machine living up to a hand-tamped coffee. After three weeks of using this machine daily, I feel qualified to review it. I thought the best way was to show you the machine in a kind of how-to video of about 12 minutes. I’ve followed that up with a summary of what I like/don’t like about the Philips Saeco Intelia, skip straight to that if you're after my final verdict.]]> http://www.corridorkitchen.com/2012/01/review-philips-saeco-intelia/feed/ 18