Just had the most dreadful excuse for a flat white you could imagine from Greggs! “Freshly ground beans”! They should be prosecuted under the trades descriptions act!
Write up a complaint to the ASA, too. I know someone who did many years ago.
Treated myself to some stunning Ethiopian coffee today; bliss it is to be sufficiently alive to be able to partake of such things.
Speaking of, I recently learned you could drop a dab of butter into coffee and drink it while ill. Supposedly coats the throat while serving your want for coffee. I'm not sure how it tastes.
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I'll be honest: I don't like anything in my coffee except coffee (and - perhaps - milk, full, fat, and preferably organic - and/or sugar); certainly, nothing along the line of nuts, - those I like separately, but not in coffee - or those ghastly flavours one finds in Starbuck's.
But, each to their own.
If I were to describe it, the faint flavor is akin to good Iberian ham. It's there, but it's not totally there. I suspect the roaster will catch a lot of flack for it, but oh well. The nuts are put in a separate bag. Though, while I was waiting to put the just ground coffee from our grinder into our French press and the coffeemaker with the stainless steel filter, I did hear a curious crunching/cracking noise from the kitchen. I had to take a business call. When I did walk back, the kitchen smelled as if someone was eating the nuts on their lonesome.
I may try this method of being a ghost and eating a nut or two later. Do you like cream in your coffee? I've recently been trying it instead of full fat milk, and I like the more luxurious taste it offers without watering down the coffee with milk. Obviously, I wouldn't make a "latte" out of it unless I plan on becoming an obese gentleman.
I opt for just over 10 ml of the stuff. It works for a 34 oz French press (1000 ml). Just enough to change color and viscosity a bit, and still taste like coffee. To use milk to achieve the same goal, would take much more and more calories.
I generally prefer eating my calories rather than drinking them. Unless it's good alcohol.
