Category: coffee
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Pumpkin spice latte season
As pumpkin spice latte season approaches and I continue to avoid Starbucks I thought it was time to get on with making my own coffee. I followed the following recipe from foodnetwork.com but it basically comes down to the following: 1 or 2 tablespoons of pumpkin puree (can from Waitrose) 1 or 2 tablespoons of […]
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Didn’t You Do Well
Possibly the most perfect cup of coffee this year. Park Row, Bristol http://www.bristol-culture.com/2013/03/26/didnt-you-do-well/ https://www.facebook.com/DidntYouDoWell
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A few coffees in July
Black Coffee at Hart’s Bakery Sometimes Hart’s Bakery is the best thing about travel. 12-July-2013 Coming back from holiday Here is where we were, it was a lovely place and we have a rather wonderful time – I forgot to take pictures of the coffees 14-July-2013 A Tuesday, last day before […]
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Breakfast at Wallfish Bistro in Clifton
Two days ago, I had some black-looking thick and ugly mushrooms on toast at River Cottage Cafe. They were most unpleasant to look at with the grimy streaks they left on my place and weren’t exactly exploding with flavour. A week before that I had been served the most beautiful looking girolles on toast served […]
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Coffee with Maya #0020
My coffee is in front of Maya, daughter of artist Luke Jerram, and now a pixelated sculpture at Bristol Temple Meads. The piece is made up of more than 5,000 photographic scans made into pixelated cubes. I shared my attempt to find the little girl yesterday with Bristol Culture.
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Morning coffee #0019
I drank my coffee while my daughter watched Mike the Knight* on Cbeebies. The show is on for about seven minutes. I also made toast for both of us, washed some dishes, made the coffee and then sat down to check my email. By then she’d finished with Mike and we were on to the […]
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Coffee at Painswick #0018
Today’s first coffee was in a hotel at the picturesque and quaint town of Painswick. In a garden, overlooking the Cotswolds, I poured black coffee from a small white jug into my white china cup. My two-year-old daughter was not happy at having to take second place to the men I was talking to. They […]
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White coffee on a Sunday #0016
This Sunday was a busy one as I sorted out paperwork that went back years. It took hours but it was very satisfactory. 21 July, 2013
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White soy mocha #0015
Today I had decaf grande soy white mocha because the nice barista made it for me. He knew my order and I’m not sure why he thinks I have decaf but I don’t mind. Also, porridge. Grande, because I forgot my travel mug. It was so hot that m kept waking so I got maybe […]
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Black coffee #0013, failed coffee #0014
First day of holidays, even though I don’t work on Mondays anyway, and there was no soy milk or condensed milk anywhere in the house. My coffee was lovely regardless. Coffee with cream #0013 This coffee was never drunk, not really. I thought I’d found a solution to my no milk in the house when […]
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