a breakfast list

here is what i have been eating for breakfast lately:

1. half (“.5″) or possibly whole (“1.0″) banana, organic, not too ripe, peeled and destringed
2. no more than ten (“10″) raw, organic walnuts
3 one (“1.0″) or possibly two (“2″) slices of food for life® wheat and gluten free millet bread toast
4. one (“1.0″) or more traditional, cup-and-saucer, type coffee cups of coffee. this is an organic, free-trade blend of two kinds of beans procured at the park slope food coop including _organic love buzz_ for the caf component, and _french roast_ for the decaf component.

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not in the mood

over the summer i was in the mood for sumatra and mexican bean.  specifically, a combination of sumatra caf and mexican decaf, or sumatra caf and sumatra decaf.  mostly the former since the co op does not choose to sell the decaffeinated version of sumatra for some  reason, most likely the same one that underlies the disappeareance of all incense products and of bergamot bath salt.

that being said, if i want to procure sumatra decaf, i must go to whole foods. their bean is very good. it is very fresh. this is an inconvenience because going to whole foods does not fit into my life, the way it is currently configured, conveniently. so it’s a big pain in the ass.

so i was really into these blends for many weeks and months. then i reverted to a darker, oilier bean blend preference which consisted of a newly discovered (by me) dark roast called “organic love buzz” to which i added decaffeinated french roast. this was thrilling, delicious, exhilarating. and became the bean staple of my life. a strong force.

so what’s the problem?

i stopped being into sumatra/mexican decaf  before finishing off the remaining quantity of corresponding bean on the shelf. so it sat there and sat there, and i kept thinking, i’ll get to it. months later i ground it up and am now drinking it. i’m just not in the mood. i have questions.

should i simply wait until my palate changes over? should i try to doctor the blend by adding something darker? i may just have to make it stronger.  it’s sad.

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today was a good coffee day

i was afraid today would be a bad coffee day. i had my first cup while rushing to dress and leave the house for an event in a place far away that requires travel by subway and railroad. so my first cup was rushed. i was permitted to obtain a second cup on the way. i got a tall (can you imagine?) half caf with steamed milk.

you want a misto?
yes, i said. whatever you want to call it.

so i drank that and expected it to last throughout my meal at the bistro, for i knew that i would not enjoy the coffee being served. my misto did not last as long as i had hoped.

while i was enjoying cream cheese among other things, i knew i needed more coffee because cream cheese and coffee are an excellent combination. after several polite requests, a cup of decaf was procured. in it i poured conventional milk from a conventional cow treated in conventional ways and fed conventional feed which is a sin because we all know by now that cows were designed to eat grass, not grain and various body parts and antibiotics. i will confess that my bistro cup was not half bad.

now it is too late to drink more coffee and i feel sad. but i have a beverage that i use to play coffee make-believe. it’s called inka. the design is bad but the product is quite good.

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coffee dilemma

so i made a cup of coffee at work this morning. by afternoon, it was tepid. i must confess that i enjoy coffee at any temperature and have over the past few months come to appreciate room temperature coffee. that being said, i was also aware of the jar of milk in the refrigerator. i brought it in with me. it is local farmer’s milk from cows that are fed grass and are treated well. as i drank the coffee into the afternoon, i kept feeling that i should be heating up the milk and combining it with the coffee. but i didn’t. i didn’t have time and i was digging on the black coffee thing. is that so wrong?

when coffee is as good as this coffee was today, it is hard for me to include milk even though the milk i have is special and good. perhaps i should just accept that this is where i am. it’s too much pressure otherwise.

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eaten during snack break at the ice skating rink

1. baguette. local, ‘hand-crafted.’ met bread needs reasonbly well
2. brie
3. sliced apples (pink lady)
4. coffee (half mexican decaf, half peru)
5. water

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another successful combination

i have discovered that carrot (raw) and coffee are an acceptable combination.

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turkey + coffee

sometimes having a snack conflicts with drinking coffee. for example, i wanted a grapefruit just now and rejected that as a snack idea because of the coffee conflict. grapefruits just don’t go with a cup of coffee. many things go with coffee. cheese, bread, peanuts. those are not foods i care to eat at the moment. three slices of turkey were available to me, and that’s what i ate. it was risky, but here is a guiding story i often think of when the combining of turkey and coffee is called into question.

it happens in an episode of abbot & costello.

lou (the thin, mean one, i think) is at a diner. a lunch counter. a luncheonette. something like this. he orders a turkey sandwich and a cup of coffee. there is something timeless and romantic about that scene, and there is something perfect about a turkey sandwich and a cup of coffee. so, for me, turkey and coffee coexist nicely as snacks.

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burned again

through my own negligence, the gasket of my stovetop espresso pot has melted and as such the technology has been suspended until further notice. in its stead the electronic coffee maker is currently serving.

must i shlep down to porto rico imports to find another gasket?

i suppose i must.

i really do want a french press though, a glass one.

peanuts

i was sick on sunday, and my coffee wasn’t tasting good. so i thought if i ate some peanuts, since the peanut and coffee combination is one of my very favorites, the coffee would taste better. it kind of worked. i feel this is a bribe. peanut bribery.

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