It looks terrific! I'm sure you enjoyed the chocolaty treat!
I make these just for you!
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I make these just for you!
Oh, see I'd just make him some auto-drip from pre-ground Meijer coffee that's been sitting in the freezer for the last year. I doubt he'd know the difference!
How kind!
Hard to taste from a distance...but it's the thought that counts...
Exactly. Just the thought of you thinking of someone putting chocolate into an espresso is satisfaction enough.
Oh, see I'd just make him some auto-drip from pre-ground Meijer coffee that's been sitting in the freezer for the last year. I doubt he'd know the difference!
Well, the freezer keeps that very fine coffee fresh, doesn't it? It keeps that fine Manischewitz wine I love so much cold and fresh...so it must work for coffee.
Exactly. Just the thought of you thinking of someone putting chocolate into an espresso is satisfaction enough.
Doesn't bother me how others
Oh, see I'd just make him some auto-drip from pre-ground Meijer coffee that's been sitting in the freezer for the last year. I doubt he'd know the difference!
Since I have a Meijer in town, and he doesn't, I can go buy a bag of flavored beans, and grind them in the store grinder, where all the other flavored beans are ground and send it to him.
Doesn't bother me how otherspollute...er...mess up...ah...enjoy their creativelydestroyed...improved espresso.
Thankfully, we have Shrink's Law.
Since I have a Meijer in town, and he doesn't, I can go buy a bag of flavored beans, and grind them in the store grinder, where all the other flavored beans are ground and send it to him.
Thankfully, we have Shrink's Law.
Send him plenty of Coffee-mate to give his bland espressos a little punch!!
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Sure...sure...pile on, why don't you!
I can take it...we shrinks are a hardy bunch,
Please...stop! You're killing me!
Geez...such an equipment freak!
Well, I needed it to match the rest of the machine! Aesthetics you know!
Every time I am away from this thread for more than a day or two, it has grown exponentially on my return……
Anyway, I love the exchange, and may you enjoy your chocolate…..
And today, bad news: I am drinking tea, as several very long plane flights seem to have given me a heavy head cold and sore throat…….commiserations and sympathy will be more than welcome...
Anyway, I love the exchange, and may you enjoy your chocolate…..
And today, bad news: I am drinking tea, as several very long plane flights seem to have given me a heavy head cold and sore throat…….commiserations and sympathy will be more than welcome...
Unfortunately, the closed plane environment of a plane (filters notwithstanding) is the perfect sealed environment to spread all kinds of pathogens...airborne and contact.
Much sympathy and commiseration to you, dear friend. I wish for you the quick resolution of the ailment, that the tea is soothing, and that you soon will feel, once again, like partaking of our collective favorite beverage!
Sorry to hear that you're not feeling well. I sure hope it doesn't last long and that your fantastic voyage is almost over, if it's not already.
You'll be ready to drink coffee before you know it! ☕
Here is hoping you recover soon! If I may admit something, I've been known to savor a number of herbal and green teas, so you remain in good company.
Here is hoping you recover soon! If I may admit something, I've been known to savor a number of herbal and green teas, so you remain in good company.
I have in my cupboard too and drink it on occasion as well. Nothing wrong with it in my book.
Unfortunately, the closed plane environment of a plane (filters notwithstanding) is the perfect sealed environment to spread all kinds of pathogens...airborne and contact.
Much sympathy and commiseration to you, dear friend. I wish for you the quick resolution of the ailment, that the tea is soothing, and that you soon will feel, once again, like partaking of our collective favorite beverage!
Thank you, my friends.
Arrived home two days ago, after an incredibly and lengthy set of plane journeys, and attended a very post modern (existentialist) and highly fashionable play last night with my brother - I had bought the much in demand tickets a few months ago; I would describe it as 'challenging' and 'interesting' rather than enjoyable. However, the cast were first rate, and truly delivered a breath-taking, fiercely athletic and physical and emotionally draining performance. One is glad to have seen it, but it is not a play I would watch weekly…..
Today, I flew to London, and am staying for a few days in one of those wonderful clubs in the city centre, arranged by a good friend; more plays - 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up The Bodies' (performed by the RSC - Royal Shakespeare Company - their adaptation of Hilary Mantel's prize-winning pair of novels set in the court of Henry VIII) await me tomorrow.
And a cup of mint tea - not coffee - sits by my side - this is sad.
Tonight, I am in central London, and all I can think of is getting a good - and early - night's sleep so I can enjoy seven hours of high class drama in the company of good friends tomorrow (and yes; these tickets too, were bought months ago, as these performances sold out rapidly….)
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Here is hoping you recover soon! If I may admit something, I've been known to savor a number of herbal and green teas, so you remain in good company.
Well, camomile and mint have been my preferences tonight, and the thought of an espresso leaves me ..unenthused. Sad.
The other thing - well, one does get acclimatised, and personally, I now know that I love warm, dry climates, - is that it is bloody cold in northern Europe; autumn has kicked in with vengeance, and I am feeling it ..
Seriously, I am really feeling the cold, and am reminding myself of those characters from the old Raj, the sort of grumpy colonial officials, and ex-officers who retired to the Home Counties muttering bleakly about how their blood had become 'thin' after too many decades Out East running ye old Imperial Possessions ..
Here is hoping you recover soon! If I may admit something, I've been known to savor a number of herbal and green teas, so you remain in good company.
Fairly self aggrandizing and presumptuous...I'd say!
Fairly self aggrandizing and presumptuous...I'd say!
Man, I thought I'd get away with it too....
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I know precisely of what you speak. I experienced something similar, and I've never been able to handle the cold since...
Man, I thought I'd get away with it too....
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I know precisely of what you speak. I experienced something similar, and I've never been able to handle the cold since...
Yes. I grew up in the cold, dark, damp light-deprived climates of the British Isles, and always disliked that climate, even though it is where I am from, and supposedly am adapted to.
However, ever since I worked in the Balkans quite a bit in the late 1990s, after the Yugoslav wars, I realised that I loved the warm, dry climates of the south, and these past years, I have spent almost four of the last six years in warm, dry lands, and realise that I love it……seem to have acclimatised, and find adjusting to the cold of an early autumn in northern Europe a bit of a trial…..
In fact, this is where milky coffee drinks come into their own…..and hot chocolate, which I would never dream of drinking in a climate where warm dry summers are the norm….
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This is the time and through the winter where I tend to drink more of them, than during the summers here. Though, this year I've tried to make more than the past summer.
I love the Autumn here and look forward to it every year. But I dread the impending winter that follows it.
Hibernation solves that problem...
Believe me, if we found a way to make humans do what bears do, I'd be first in line to sign up.
In fairness, normally, I don't dislike autumn; if it is dry, (and one is appropriately well wrapped up) the season of leaves turning, and slightly crisp mornings can be lovely. I know (although I have never had the privilege of seeing it) that the New England autumns are supposed to be superb.
However, I have had three months where the temperature daily was 37-40 degrees C (i.e. approximately 98-103 F), the sky was blue, and the air bone dry. And my body now thinks that this is how things should be; dropping from 40 to 14 is brutally hard…..(i.e. from 97-102 F to 57 F)…….
I agree with you, though, on dreading the coming of winter; this is a season I detest, and have long done so…..
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Hibernation solves that problem...
You have no idea how often I have contemplated this solution to that problem….the problem is that one would awaken in March, hungry, horny and deeply, disturbingly skinny……not sure I could handle that, either…..
I hear you, and broadly speaking, (caveats above, notwithstanding) agree with you…..
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Yes, switching from very warm, or even hot weather to more cold weather will come as a shock to the body. But as you describe, the Autumn's here in the Great Lakes and New England, are really nice with the trees turning colors, the crisp cool air with low humidity. It's great to sit outside and enjoy coffee, or even a hot tea.