coffee token

don't take any wooden nickels but if someone offers you a wooden token "good for one coffee", take it!

coffee is my drug

take two cups & call me in the morning

a coffee valentine

who spilled the beans and left it???

i found this pile of beans at the self-serve coffee area of my local grocery store. i think it was very uncool for whoever made this mess to just leave it there. if it was an adult, they should know better. if it was an unsupervised child, well they shouldn't be unsupervised! whoever it was, shame on you for not cleaning up your mess.

ein kaffee bitte

translation: one coffee please
since this cup and saucer was made in germany, i thought i'd title this post in german :) i bought it at sur la table a few years back but i wish i had bought a service for four instead of only one. drat!

who spilled the beans?

everyone is familiar with the phrase about spilling the beans. i thought i would take it literally and this is what i came up with. i took this photo with my iPhone, then used an instagram filter to soften the colors. i think it came out pretty good.

preparing for a single cup pour over

a great cup of coffee starts with freshly ground, high quality coffee beans.

coffee for christmas

christmas day was filled with coffee and more coffee. my daughters know me very well because they both gifted me with bags of coffee. my younger daughter lives in san francisco, so she came with coffee from the san francisco coffee roasting co. on pier 39. my older daughter just came back from hawaii, so she came with a bag of 100% kona from the wailele estates. do i have awesome daughters, or what?!

the coffee scoop

probably thee most basic tool in your coffee station is the coffee scoop. i have a drawer full of scoops but i like this one the best. i bought it at peet's coffee. it is made of brushed stainless steel, measures 2 tbsp and has a really good weight to it. it will outlast all of your plastic scoops and probably most of your metal ones too! i've had mine for years.

nosey doggie

i was setting up a shot when bailey, my little chihuahua, decided to come see what i was doing. she stuck her little head right in my shot and tried to steal a coffee bean!

freshly ground beans

to make a proper cup of coffee, you must start with freshly ground beans. whatever you do, don't buy pre-ground coffee in the supermarket. if you do, you are buying stale coffee and you won't be getting a quality cup of coffee. invest in a good burr grinder so you can buy freshly roasted, whole beans and grind only what you need, as you need it. i like the capresso infinity burr grinder. it is a good mid priced grinder. you don't need anything more expensive and you don't want anything cheaper. freshly ground quality beans really do make a difference.

before & after the brew

i thought it would be fun to show coffee beans before & after the brew in a dainty cup & saucer. i normally do not drink out of such fanciness but i was feeling snazzy that day. i have an eclectic assortment of mugs that i prefer to use for their varied sentiments; plus they hold more coffee!