I have been thinking about your comment every morning (and sometimes every evening too) since you wrote that. Why do you come to mind? As I'm making my morning coffee, I think, WHY haven't I answered IM yet?!
So... 1. good point on the Chinese! 2. yes, totally gross. I'm taking plastic on my next trip, because I have often been suspicious about the glasses in the hotel I stay in in NJ! 3. They are powerful, no?
and last, So it's a cafe latte (with an accent I'm too lazy to seek out of course) with syrup, right? At least that's the drink I like. Mostly because I'm not grown up enough to drink real coffee, is what I usually say :)
Here's how we make them at home, and it's basically the same thing you'd get at an American Starbucks and/or most indie coffee shops here, too. I've also had something similar in Swiss and London Starbucks too, but in Switzerland they don't do fruit syrups (my brother told me that) and frankly, in Europe I don't prefer to go to Starbucks anyway :)
It's 2 shots of Espresso, 3 or 4 pumps of syrup (something like this), and fill the rest of the mug with steamed/frothed milk. I prefer lots of froth :)
If you ever come here, I'd be happy to make them for you!
Thank you! I was thinking about this this morning when I made my vanilla latter from a packet! It's so-so (and the only type available here right now), and as it's my first coffee in days I enjoyed. I like lots of froth too (do you know there are still places here where they pump squirty cream on top of cafe con leche and call it cappuchino **shudder**).
I think we can get the syrups in the English supermarket, they would be the same ones they sell for putting on ice cream I think! Now I am getting excited!
oh yay! I hope you are able to make/find something you like!
When my SIL lived in Switzerland and before they had a machine that would froth milk, she found one of these. I saw them there and in Germany for many years before they were available in the US. Anyway, she'd microwave some milk in a cup, and then use this little battery-operated frother. That's how we started making our own lattes at home. I have to tell you they were pretty good!
So...
1. good point on the Chinese!
2. yes, totally gross. I'm taking plastic on my next trip, because I have often been suspicious about the glasses in the hotel I stay in in NJ!
3. They are powerful, no?
and last,
So it's a cafe latte (with an accent I'm too lazy to seek out of course) with syrup, right? At least that's the drink I like. Mostly because I'm not grown up enough to drink real coffee, is what I usually say :)
Here's how we make them at home, and it's basically the same thing you'd get at an American Starbucks and/or most indie coffee shops here, too. I've also had something similar in Swiss and London Starbucks too, but in Switzerland they don't do fruit syrups (my brother told me that) and frankly, in Europe I don't prefer to go to Starbucks anyway :)
It's 2 shots of Espresso, 3 or 4 pumps of syrup (something like this), and fill the rest of the mug with steamed/frothed milk. I prefer lots of froth :)
If you ever come here, I'd be happy to make them for you!
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I think we can get the syrups in the English supermarket, they would be the same ones they sell for putting on ice cream I think! Now I am getting excited!
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When my SIL lived in Switzerland and before they had a machine that would froth milk, she found one of these. I saw them there and in Germany for many years before they were available in the US. Anyway, she'd microwave some milk in a cup, and then use this little battery-operated frother. That's how we started making our own lattes at home. I have to tell you they were pretty good!
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