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Exquisite picture. I even loved the logs.
I hear you, read you, relate to you.
Enjoy.
Well, I have just prepared a coffee from a freshly opened bag of washed process Ethiopian coffee, served with organic hot milk.
Perfect on a damp, dull, dreary, dismal, grey, cold day, a day with lowering, threatening, charcoal skies that smothered what one can see in a bleak, light-deprived monochrome shade of colour.
I'm sooooo boring; same coffee day after day. The only variables are whether I wash the dirty cup before making the second and whether I use my finger or the flat side of my pocket knife's fish hook extractor to level the grounds in the portafilter.
I love it too much to try anything else, so stop tempting me with all those fantasmalicious beans and additives!!
I love it too much to try anything else, so stop tempting me with all those fantasmalicious beans and additives!!
As long as you enjoy it, that is what matters.
There are days when I think that I would prefer to never touch - or drink - anything other than Ethiopian coffee, and, every time I return to Ethiopian coffee, having been drinking something else for a while, it is sheer bliss.
However, every so often, I haul myself (sometimes with difficulty) out of my coffee comfort zone, and try out coffee from elsewhere, any place other than Ethiopia.
That is how I discover new coffees that I have come to realise that I like (some superb coffees from El Salvador, for example, and, indeed, Colombia, as well as some pretty good ones from Burundi), and a few outstanding coffees from Yemen, a place where (on account of war, civil war and conflict), it has now become very difficult to obtain coffee from.
Now, granted, there are some discoveries which - to my mind and palate - are best left undiscovered; well, those coffees, I simply choose not to order again.
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For me , drinking the espresso has transitioned into reflecting time .
Before the day starts, as the day goes.
I’m 62 now, not retired yet, so have a M-F work routine.
We used to collect a meaningful magnet on family trips, then added coffee mugs in the 2010’s / afterwards. I find having that mug with meaning behind it .. means something.
A few of more.
These magnets on garage door mean something, but I don’t really reflect on them as much.
I’ve got hopefully 25 more years on this earth, drinking espresso in a special mug adds a little to it each day.
Before the day starts, as the day goes.
I’m 62 now, not retired yet, so have a M-F work routine.
We used to collect a meaningful magnet on family trips, then added coffee mugs in the 2010’s / afterwards. I find having that mug with meaning behind it .. means something.
A few of more.
These magnets on garage door mean something, but I don’t really reflect on them as much.
I’ve got hopefully 25 more years on this earth, drinking espresso in a special mug adds a little to it each day.
Love that phrase.
And, I loved your pictures - more wood and some magnets with dogs on them. I can't believe I'm writing this here, but dogs are even better than coffee.
Enjoying a much needed and most welcome mug of Ethiopian coffee this overcast Monday afternoon.
Well, I just tried the trend of drinking sparkling water along with my espresso.
Not a fan.
My dislike of sparkling water has, of course, clouded my judgement somewhat but it also seemed to have removed some of the bitterness I quite like in my espressos.
Not a fan.
My dislike of sparkling water has, of course, clouded my judgement somewhat but it also seemed to have removed some of the bitterness I quite like in my espressos.
Not a trend, just a marked personal preference of mine.
Personally, I love sparkling water; I use it sometimes to dilute fruit drinks - or natural juices made from fruit I have squeezed myself.
It is a trend now - it's just that you were doing it long before it became trendy!
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Ah, okay.
Now, this, I didn't now, not least because I am one of the most untrendy individuals one could possibly trip over, encounter, or come across, on life's journey.
Yes, I've been doing that - consuming a glass sparkling water with my espresso (or, any other coffee) - for well over two decades, by now.
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Enjoying a Large espresso with a few (2) dark-chocolate buttons into it.
Gives a great taste 😋
I've had both milk/white-chocolate buttons earlier into my espressos too, years ago.
Then I forgot all about it, but it's gives a special taste to the espresso that is enjoyable once in a while at times when you feel a very small urge for something to the espresso, but not wanting cookies or something like that. Just raw chocolate espresso yummy.
I might will buy some of the other raw (milk/white) buttons too.
Gives a great taste 😋
I've had both milk/white-chocolate buttons earlier into my espressos too, years ago.
Then I forgot all about it, but it's gives a special taste to the espresso that is enjoyable once in a while at times when you feel a very small urge for something to the espresso, but not wanting cookies or something like that. Just raw chocolate espresso yummy.
I might will buy some of the other raw (milk/white) buttons too.
Enjoyed a flat white in two different locations (one of them, my favourite French café) earlier today.
Currently sipping a gloriously welcome mug of Ethiopian coffee.
Currently sipping a gloriously welcome mug of Ethiopian coffee.
chocolate and coffee......that can be an excellent flavor combo.
The best way to catch the sunrise this morning where we got a brief burst of color before the forecasted gray skies.
I'm loving old age and all the silver linings. I don't see the scratches on my stuff. My hearing doesn't need fancy speakers. I go into the kitchen to warm up Silvia and find that I'd left it on. It's the good life, except for my aching back.
Wonderful.
Being comfortable with yourself - even if one's body occasionally (or often) protests - is one of the advantages of middle age (and the world of more advancing years).
I hear you.
In my case, I've always had the aching back - piping hot showers and a treat of an occasional back-shoulder-massage works wonders and affords a temporary reprieve; however, the aching knees are new.
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I prefer Cats by far....especially cats that drink espresso.
I had one who was sitting and waiting for his espresso beside me. His espresso was my leftovers, and it had cooled down enough for him.
Enjoying an exquisite Ethiopian coffee, served with organic hot milk and a dash of double cream.
My coffee order doesn't arrive for another week and I am almost running out. I had to go to the coffee shop to buy a pound - of 10-days old coffee!!!!
That's pretend outrage; I know I won't notice it since it usually takes me that long to work through a pound of fresh coffee and I never notice a change during that time. (Rats, now that I said that, I'm sure I'll obsess over it and convince myself that I do.)
That's pretend outrage; I know I won't notice it since it usually takes me that long to work through a pound of fresh coffee and I never notice a change during that time. (Rats, now that I said that, I'm sure I'll obsess over it and convince myself that I do.)
I'm having some coffee made from newly arrived beans; tasting notes said to be "chocolate cake, almonds and toasted coconut". The chocolate cake note clearly dominates.