Coffee

A phrase that my friend mentioned earlier today and I added the picture!

 

A Day of Opposites!

That sums up the day well.  I could quit there, but blogging would be no fun then and I've taken pictures too!  Earlier this morning I prepped some blueberries for something ~ maybe muffins or donuts.  Doesn't this look yummy, even before it's sat for awhile.

Love the colors that berries leave behind, on my cutting board.

Would be nice to find a way to save the color and have the board be clean.

So, the total opposite would be spending a portion of the day, taking

over the dining room table, to organize our quicken accounts.

NOT FUN!! At least I made coffee before getting started.

Well, when I started this post about eight hours ago, I had several opposites to write about.  Now that I have finally gotten the second photo to load, I've lost all recollection of what those were.  Oh well!

Coffe gone WRONG!!!!!

When you find a bunch of grounds at the bottom of your coffee cup (or in my case coffee glass as I like it iced), it makes you look at the bucket where the grounds go.

AH!  This would explain why coffee this morning didn't taste all that great.

Which leads to:

a second filtering of the coffee.  At least this go around

tasted much better.

Homemade Peppermint Mocha

Some things in life can only be expressed by YUM!!

I read somewhere or Kevin told me about steeping Earl Grey before mixing in your Hot Chocolate Mix.  It sounded interesting and something that might be worth trying, at least once.  Well, I remembered I had Peppermint Tea which would be even better and it is (I've tried both).

To make:

• make tea as you would usually
• once tea bag is out, mix in hot chocolate mix

So simple and so good.  For a high maintenance drink, I'll brew fresh coffee and pour that over the tea bag and leaving some room at top.  Let steep, remove tea bag, add hot chocolate powder, a splash of milk, and mix.  YUM! Hot Peppermint Mocha!  (and we generally top with whip cream and sprinkles)


P.S. Just uploaded a bunch of pictures so I am back blogging and retro dating.