Sipping on a double shot Macchiato to be followed by a tall glass of water. My coffee drink of choice.
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I am very partial to a good macchiato. Very partial indeed. Do enjoy.
A good machiato is a creamy drink all the way through. Think I'll make two tonight in a short while before I sit down to our film. No dessert other than some fresh figs with honey. Some of that excellent honey I posted a week or two ago.
In Italy, they'd serve the machiatos and espressos with a small highball of fizzy water with lemon or orange peel in it. To cleanse the palette before and after the coffee. Or it was after. Or before. I forget.
In Italy, they'd serve the machiatos and espressos with a small highball of fizzy water with lemon or orange peel in it. To cleanse the palette before and after the coffee. Or it was after. Or before. I forget.
Sensible people and people with good taste will always serve coffee with a glass of water; I first encountered this lovely habit in coffee shops in Brussels as an undergrad when I was visiting the EU institutions and thought it marvellous then, and still think it marvellous. They also served a small biscuit - almost like a biscotti - on the saucer of the elegant cup of coffee.
Now, agreed, a glass of sparkling water with a slice of orange or lemon is simply pure heaven.......by itself, or, especially, when served with coffee.
An excellent cappuccino - hot milk and espresso made with an Italian machine - at (or, rather, after) lunch.
Enjoy a cup of Costa Rican coffee with hot milk and brown sugar.
There are certain coffees that hot milk and brown sugar enhance immeasurably.
And I have just had a most delicious cappuccino made with that splendid piece of Italian engineering that is the espresso machine.
Hope you move through it quickly. Headaches and migraines (not to mention flu's) are nasty things to have to endure.
Are you dehydrated?
An ample intake of water (actually, a copious intake of water) can sometime help alleviate such things.
Enjoy.
Agreed, though I have always found that migraines were invariably triggered by a cocktail of a combination of factors including stress.
Had a lovely cappuccino this afternoon.
Inexplicably, it slipped my mind to mention the stunning - and beautifully prepared - espressos I have enjoyed both today and yesterday.
This could easily of been written by our dear friend Scepticalscribe but it just happens to be me at this moment;
Sat down now with a nice Kenyan coffee, freshly ground and prepared in my French Press. Sitting down to read the Observer.
Yes, the Observer as well! No Times left in my local News Agents. Time to enjoy.
Sat down now with a nice Kenyan coffee, freshly ground and prepared in my French Press. Sitting down to read the Observer.
Yes, the Observer as well! No Times left in my local News Agents. Time to enjoy.
French Press? Kenyan coffee? The Observer?
Are you temporarily channelling me, one asks?
Well, enjoy The Observer (a wonderful paper) and your Kenyan coffee.
Gosh.
Organic milk? On top of The Observer (a splendid paper, and, I may add, the oldest extant Sunday paper in the world - they published an obituary of W A Mozart in December 1791), and Kenyan coffee prepared in a French Press?
Really?
And - I cannot but wonder - whether I am to be still addressed as Scepticalscribe or Mr Dave Meadows on this late summer Sunday?
And now watching Formula One. The Hungarian Grand Prix. And there the similarities end. As you were.
Yes, this is true.
Watching Formula One is nothing something I could be persuaded to do willingly. Perhaps you may start channelling @Apple fanboy instead as Formula One is more his kind of thing than mine.
Now, from my perspective, watching Andrew Marr, or - let us say - Foyle's War, is something entirely different.
I've had to record it and avoid result for 5 days! Fat chance.
Fat chance, indeed, along with superhuman - and almost unnatural - self-control.
This tasted perfect. My attempt at a flat white. Nice and strong.
This tasted perfect. My attempt at a flat white. Nice and strong.
Hope it was as delicious as it looked.
Apart from the fetching little hearts, is there anything else we should know about the coffee - such as where it hails from?