Well bless your hearts! Martha thank you for thinking of me on my birthday, that was so sweet of you to remember! ThinMan, thank you. The Rancher did give me some special treats for my day. A new, light weight, vacuum cleaner, a wonderful light weight steam iron and many yards of new fabric. I spent the entire day in the house alone (at my request, they needed a push to get going on the second cutting of alfalfa anyway Ha!) and sewed my little heart out making new kitchen curtains from the fabric the Rancher gave me. I turned the TV to a 70's music channel and just worked away. It was sheer bliss! And yes, my daughter did bake me a cake...jello confetti with confetti ice cream...yummy! I love the poem, Edna, thank you. FoxesEarth, wishes granted...thank you very very much! To the rest of you...many many thanks for the warm wishes. I love you all so much! MeMo

I am not sure if this is the one, but Terri PacNW posted about this and I have made it countless times and everyone that has tried it (at the KT and IRL) love it!!! I just made a gallon of it for a family get together this past week-end and they all thought it was awesome! I just made a very simple "iced" coffee recipe to go with breakfast this morning...You could certainly pour it over ice in the blender and make a frozen coffee. 8-10 cups of strong fresh brewed coffee 1 can of sweetened condensed milk (low fat, fat free..whatever) Blend, chill..pour over ice...

We've been using a Ghirardelli chocolate cake recipe for birthdays since the 50s. For frosting we always use some strong coffee as well as some milk. It's perfect. Dad's theory was that the purpose of cake was to deliver the frosting, and that mocha frosting was the best of all. :) He has a 4 yr old great-granddaughter, born many years after he passed away, who shares his opinion about the function of cake..

I love coffee! Hot coffee, iced coffee, coffee flavored desserts, cappuccino gelato. . . The list goes on and on and on . . . . .. You get the idea. Mornings I have one, sometimes two, cups of coffee with just powdered creamer, no sugar, no flavorings. (Much as I love coffee, I have never been able to drink it black.) I had been buying those bottles of Starbucks Frappuccinos in the grocery store, when one day a couple of years ago I realized I could make a reasonable facsimile a heck of a lot cheaper! And have a lot more favors. So now, on these hot, HOT afternoons, I enjoy my own version of iced coffee, no real recipe though. I fill my tall, insulated Yeti type tumbler with ice, add refrigerated coffee if I have it, room temperature if I don't, to within about an inch or so of the top of the ice. Add some cream, and some flavored liquid coffee creamer, stir, taste, and adjust amounts of whatever until it has the taste I want. I like a dark roast coffee, and I brew it pretty strong. My usual brand is either Dunkin Donuts' "Turbo" or their dark roast. I never thought about using sweetened condensed milk, may have to try that sometime. I like the iced coffee to be a just little sweet, with a only little bit of flavor. If I add enough of either to get it too the 'lightness' I want, it would be way too sweet or the flavor too overpowering, My current favorite flavors are caramel macchiato and amaretto. At one time, when I first started making my own, I probably had almost every flavor of liquid coffee creamer there is on hand. Now I usually keep two different flavors on hand. Oh, and I use the tall, slim, Yeti type tumbler because they don't sweat, and keep the iced drink iced for many hours. Or they would if the drink lasted that long. . . . . Rusty