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Kona from a grower on Hawaii.......today I ground the last of my current supply
Kona from a grower on Hawaii.......today I ground the last of my current supply
Ah, do enjoy.
I just got a bag of Guatemalan beans in the mail, will be happy to share @Mackey-Mac and @Scepticalscribe. Maybe we should create a Community Chest of beans to share.
In these current circumstances, this idea has considerable appeal.
Enjoying an Illy coffee with organic hot milk.
Having my afternoon tea, Earl Grey with hot milk and brown sugar (Kenyan).
Excellent, just restocked Lavazza as my Coffee I bought in Athens bac in February is almost out. JUst to clarify, what's from Kenya, the tea or sugar?
Earl Grey with hot milk and brown sugar? Sounds delicious.
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Kenya grows both tea and coffee - I've visited plantations in Kenya where tea was grown, (the leaves picked), and also visited coffee plantations where the beans (berries) were harvested.
As for sugar, I don't know whether Kenya grows it, but their tea and coffee are both excellent.
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Ah, now that, I had not known.
However, Kenya strikes me as the sort of country where almost everything can be grown.
Fascinating.
You learn something new (or you try to, or I try to, learn something new) every day.
My Kenyan friend recently bought me 200 bags of Kenyan Masala tea. I make it the way she taught me - a teabag in a saucepan of milk which is then heated with lots of stirring.
melvinstea.com
Masala Chai Archives » Melvins Teas
Melvins Masala Chai is 100% Natural with no added preservatives Ingredients Kenyan black tea with freshly ground cinnamon, black pepper, cloves, cardamom, nutmeg, and Tangawizi (ginger) spices. Description We hand pick and blend the finest quality Kenyan tea with our unique Masala mix to create...
melvinstea.com
My Kenyan friend recently bought me 200 bags of Kenyan Masala tea. I make it the way she taught me - a teabag in a saucepan of milk which is then heated with lots of stirring.
Masala Chai Archives » Melvins Teas
Melvins Masala Chai is 100% Natural with no added preservatives Ingredients Kenyan black tea with freshly ground cinnamon, black pepper, cloves, cardamom, nutmeg, and Tangawizi (ginger) spices. Description We hand pick and blend the finest quality Kenyan tea with our unique Masala mix to create...
I have had that in very good restaurants in Nairobi, and it was delicious.
That company has good machines even the Cuisinart one and lIiy recycles the capsules.
I don't use capsules; just coffee that I grind myself, or coffee that I sometimes buy as ground coffee, when I will prepare it by using a dripper with filter paper, or, with a French Press.
The bergimont (essential oil) is why it has its flavore.
Woke up at 5:30.
Meditation.
Coffee (from a local roastery), French Press.
Two eggs in a basket (wheat toast, eggs cooked over medium).
Orange Juice.
Newspaper.
Mornings can be good.
Meditation.
Coffee (from a local roastery), French Press.
Two eggs in a basket (wheat toast, eggs cooked over medium).
Orange Juice.
Newspaper.
Mornings can be good.
Just to retain my weight as reasonable as possible during our strictly controlled confinement since mid March, I stopped drinking my x2 small cups of coffee/day with 1 sugar last week.
But today my wife offered me up a small treat:
One cup of Ristretto Intenso with a freshly baked French 'Chocolatine'. Divine........😇
Think I'll continue this wicked habit once a week until the end of lock-down is announced.
But today my wife offered me up a small treat:
One cup of Ristretto Intenso with a freshly baked French 'Chocolatine'. Divine........😇
Think I'll continue this wicked habit once a week until the end of lock-down is announced.
Since the current restrictions on socialising, shopping and travelling have come into force, and movement generally has been curtailed, my favourite coffee shops and cafés have been closed (shut for almost three months, now).
This means that I have long since run out of Ethiopian coffee, an inconvenience; however, it also means that I am sampling and sipping (and yes, savouring) some coffees I normally would not pay much heed to.
During this period, I've had some very good coffees from "Union Coffee" - as a local deli stocked some of their coffees.
Their organic coffee (a blend, from Honduras, Peru and Ethiopia)) was very good, as was their Colombia coffee, and I am currently trying to persuade the management in this local deli to try to lay hands on "Union Coffee's" coffee from Burundi. Moreover, it seems that a coffee sourced from Ethiopia (from Union Coffee) may also be available.
This means that I have long since run out of Ethiopian coffee, an inconvenience; however, it also means that I am sampling and sipping (and yes, savouring) some coffees I normally would not pay much heed to.
During this period, I've had some very good coffees from "Union Coffee" - as a local deli stocked some of their coffees.
Their organic coffee (a blend, from Honduras, Peru and Ethiopia)) was very good, as was their Colombia coffee, and I am currently trying to persuade the management in this local deli to try to lay hands on "Union Coffee's" coffee from Burundi. Moreover, it seems that a coffee sourced from Ethiopia (from Union Coffee) may also be available.
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I've thought to get some more Ethiopian beans and some Brazilian that I like and get them shipped from Ithaca by UPS. I'm almost out of both, just from wanting to make an order large enough to dodge the shipping costs. Will be nice to have those back in the house again.
Two of these espresso cups were left on the street near me. (It's relatively common here in Switzerland for people to put things on the street they don't want, only throwing them away if they're still there after a day or two.)
www.cremashop.eu
They're 55ml (well, 60 to the top) and my usual espresso cups (https://www.loveramics.co.uk/products/egg-espresso-cup) are 80ml. So today I'm playing around with grind and volume of coffee to get a 55ml shot instead of the 80ml shot I usually drink. It's going well. I'm a bit jittery, no doubt helped by the square of dark chocolate I have before each espresso (as I don't add milk or sugar) but it's a fun way to spend a Sunday!
IPA Genova Espresso Cup 80 ml, Price 6,90 €
Thick white Genova porcelain cups from IPA are made in Italy and they are the best choice when you enjoy your coffee as espresso.
www.cremashop.eu
They're 55ml (well, 60 to the top) and my usual espresso cups (https://www.loveramics.co.uk/products/egg-espresso-cup) are 80ml. So today I'm playing around with grind and volume of coffee to get a 55ml shot instead of the 80ml shot I usually drink. It's going well. I'm a bit jittery, no doubt helped by the square of dark chocolate I have before each espresso (as I don't add milk or sugar) but it's a fun way to spend a Sunday!