coffee conflict

i’ve already had two bodumfuls of glorious halfcaf. for the second cup, i made scalded milk and whipped it up into a froth with my beautiful aerolatte wand, then proceeded to ignore it and drink cup number two black. i ignored the milk despite my efforts to present it in a gray russel wright creamer. so now the question is…do i make even more coffee?

i think the answer is obvious. soon it will be sundown. there will be no coffee drinking tomorrow morning, as it is the day of atonement, or reframed for my current purposes, the day of no coffee. in preparation, i should drink and enjoy as much as i like.

the only remaining obstacle is that i am on the couch and nobody else is home at the moment.

Filed under: 2nd cup of the day, aerolatte, bodum, coffee, cup, enjoyment, first cup of the day, milk, yom kippur, coffee

sugar, sugar

i went to ‘snice today whilst doing the laundry. i really wanted an unsweetened iced tea, but i could not get myself to order one. the correct beverage choice is almost always coffee. so, i ordered a decaf iced coffee with milk. yet, i knew that i would not like how it would taste. so i decided to put sugar in it. and did proceed to put two (“2″) packages of natural, raw sugar in. it was good. perhaps i should just get an iced latte. for some reason, regular iced coffee is not good. i really only like an iced doppio, half caf, in a grande sized cup (to allow for the addition of a proportionately appropriate amount of milk.

Filed under: latte, milk, coffee

what i ate today

1. coffee
2. slice of amy’s sourdough bread with peanut butter
3. bagel with (a) cream cheese, (b) red onion, (c) capers, (d) tomatoes, (e) smoked salmon
4. side of bacon (crispy)
5. decaf with milk
6. slice of birthday cake
7. lemon sorbet
8. leftover roasted chicken
9. leftover roasted blue potatoes
19. leftover roasted carrots
20. leftover roasted onions
21. mint chip ice cream
22. squares of alter eco brand dark chocolate velvet

Filed under: coffee, cream cheese, cup, lists, milk, sorbet, lists

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.

Filed under: annoying, barista, coffee, combination, cup, decaf, decaffeinated beverage, enjoyment, first cup of the day, milk, starbucks, coffee

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.

Filed under: accept, bodum, coffee, combination, cup, enjoyment, milk, pressure, coffee