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9:39 am
April 12, 2010
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My husband has taken to making coffee every morning. Now every morning I wake up to a half pot of unused coffee. I know I can pour it on my acid loving plants, but what else can I do with it? I hate wasting things.
9:42 am
January 21, 2011
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When I am alone, I make 1/2 a pot.
Sorry, that's all I got. 
9:49 am
February 19, 2011
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I put it in a jar in the fridge and make myself iced coffee's. Large glass of ice pour in coffee and add some flavored creamer. I'm lovin' Irish Cream this week. Oh, wait sorry I'm weird I know, I drink iced coffee year around. When the coffee is older and stronger its better for iced coffee I think, just adds a bite.
9:51 am
October 18, 2010
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You can pour it onto your compost pile. Or make coffee/spice cookies. I have a good recipe, I'll post it today.
10:01 am
November 11, 2010
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I'll add a little (1/2 cup) to bbq sauce or whatever liquid I'm cooking a roast in. Very full flavor, but maybe not to everyone's taste. Also, you can freeze it in ice cube trays and store in baggies. Then pop it in the blender with some milk (or flavored creamer!) for a tasty frozen treat.
10:18 am
December 28, 2008
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Red eye gravy anyone? Freeze them in ice cubes trays and use instead of regular ice cubes in iced coffee. Add some to any chocolate recipe, substituting it for some of the liquid. (Coffee is said to enhance any chocolate recipe – just a little will do if you are not a serious coffee lover.)
It took quite a while, but I finally convinced the coffee drinkiers around here that by brewing a pot (if they couldn't figure out how to make a partial pot) then turning it OFF the coffee actually tasted better reheating it than leaving it to cook for hours! Any chance of retraining him to use whatever is left in the pot today as his morning coffee tomorrow? Ya know because that is all the coffee left in the house or something equally imaginative?? 
11:31 am
October 30, 2009
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Hmmm, leftover coffee? When hubby is home….there's no such thing. He can drink POTS of it!!
11:37 am
August 24, 2010
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A little bit of coffee added to any chocolate recipe brings out the chocolate flavor like you wouldn't believe!
I know here in FL, we have Sago palms that are very likely to have Asian scale, and a few years ago a large percentage of sagos were wiped out from it. Then they found that coffee (grounds and liquid) killed the scale that lived in the soil as well as on the plant. It created a soil acidic enough to kill the critters, but not effect the palms at all.
You can use coffee (liquid and grounds) around *any* plant….more on the acid lovers, less on the others. You can always delute it if you are worried about it being too acidic.
Compost pile is good, and composting worms like the grit of the grounds in moderation.
Also good for craft projects, I have "tea stained" and "coffee stained" many fabrics and papers to give them that antique-y look.
12:02 pm
April 12, 2010
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These are great ideas! I actually never thought of any of them, and the funny thing is that I do drink iced coffee and coffee 'smoothies' from Tim Horton's quite often! I like the recipe ideas and the staining idea, and making ice cubes out of them. They're all really good idea. And I need them, because he's already only making half a pot and still not drinking it, but there's no talking him out of doing things once he's made up his mind to do them. Very frustrating sometimes. 
Thanks for the tips! At least it won't go to waste! 
3:37 pm
August 24, 2010
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Maybe you should try to find a 2 or 4 cup coffee pot. <wink>
3:38 pm
November 30, 2010
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Don't be too hard on your husband, it's hard to make less than half a pot of coffee and get it to taste right, especially if you are using a drip coffee maker. I always make 8 cups because I want it to taste the same every time.
I get up earlier than everyone else, so I make the coffee then turn it off and rewarm it in the microwave or put it in a pump coffee thermos so we can have it all day. Coffee that sits on the warmer gets stronger and has a nasty taste.
3:52 pm
January 21, 2011
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hershiesgirl, you said coffee added to any chocolate recipe makes it taste better, or something close to that..can you tell me how to incorporate that into, say, a chocolate cake?
Thanks.
4:07 pm
October 14, 2010
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Maryb,
You can use it to substitute for the liquid such as water… yummy, are you baking a chocolate cake 
4:49 pm
January 21, 2011
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Yeah, already made it, and I wondered if it were already made coffee, or instant crystals, or how…so thanks for the info. Next time! :)
6:21 pm
May 18, 2010
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I would teach him how to make precisely the amount he needs to take to work. I don't like waste either. I have a 4 cup Mr. Coffee. Since I get up a lot earlier than DH I make my 1 cup and then when he gets up he has his 3 cups. It works great and no waste.
6:36 pm
August 24, 2010
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MaryB said:
hershiesgirl, you said coffee added to any chocolate recipe makes it taste better, or something close to that..can you tell me how to incorporate that into, say, a chocolate cake?
Thanks.
Most recipes call for 1 C of coffee…some hot, some cold. Not sure what the difference is! I will post one of my favorite chocolate cake recipes that uses coffee in the FB recipes section.
The cake calls for brewed coffee, the icing calls for instant coffee crystals…
Jackie
6:40 pm
January 21, 2011
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Thanks Jackie! 
8:03 pm
November 18, 2008
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I usually add coffee to all of my chocolate cake recipes. If I'm being lazy and using a boxed mix for something chocolaty such as brownies I add coffee to that as well to give it more of a homemade feel. I usually use the instant grounds, but using up the leftover coffee instead of liquid is a really good idea! Thanks for sharing!
8:36 pm
February 6, 2011
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I make a mocha buttercream frosting using cold coffee. I just use coffee in place of the milk usually called for and add powdered cocoa. Makes a wonderful frosting.
11:08 pm
March 2, 2011
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I don't drink, make or buy coffee pot coffee… I rarely drink it at all, except for bottled Starbuck's fraps. After reading all these tips & tricks, especially the chocolate tid-bit, I'm gonna have to buy a pot & some coffee now ;)
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