Coffee, cardamom, news; and more aromatherapy
15:40
So I wanted coffee, but apparently today coffee without cardamom wasn't an option, and the only proper way to get cardamom into coffee is to brew it.
The only ground coffee I had in the house was selected and ground for espresso but hey, whatever's available. Coffee as if for a double espresso; three cardamom pods; 300ml water. Brew to first boiling point with only very little stirring early on; remove from stove; allow to cool for a moment; add sugar; stir; return to stove until second boiling point.
Cardamom was top of the comfort list, together with hot green falafel, even before the previous lab. Now the act of brewing coffee comes with echoes of ZE and OR in my head, with MA and ED in the background of it. (It's ZE's coffee protocol that i'm using. That it's ZE's is reason enough. It's also the most consistently good one.)
Oh, god, this is good. I should make coffee like this more often. I think the higher grinding level actually works better, and the type of coffee seems to work as well with brewing as with the espresso method.
And also, the daily caricature at Ha'aretz is kind of what i'm feeling like. The text says, "Thank goodness for Book Week."
18:28
Three drops cedarwood, one flat tablespoon hyssop (because I don't have oil of that as I typically use it in tea), two drops peppermint oil. Boiling water poured on top. This is one mix i'm writing down for future use.
(I have a thing for ceramic bowls. Handmade, quirky. This one - black clay, cobalt-blue glazing at the bottom, two birds on top, fits perfectly in two hands.)
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So I wanted coffee, but apparently today coffee without cardamom wasn't an option, and the only proper way to get cardamom into coffee is to brew it.
The only ground coffee I had in the house was selected and ground for espresso but hey, whatever's available. Coffee as if for a double espresso; three cardamom pods; 300ml water. Brew to first boiling point with only very little stirring early on; remove from stove; allow to cool for a moment; add sugar; stir; return to stove until second boiling point.
Cardamom was top of the comfort list, together with hot green falafel, even before the previous lab. Now the act of brewing coffee comes with echoes of ZE and OR in my head, with MA and ED in the background of it. (It's ZE's coffee protocol that i'm using. That it's ZE's is reason enough. It's also the most consistently good one.)
Oh, god, this is good. I should make coffee like this more often. I think the higher grinding level actually works better, and the type of coffee seems to work as well with brewing as with the espresso method.
And also, the daily caricature at Ha'aretz is kind of what i'm feeling like. The text says, "Thank goodness for Book Week."
18:28
Three drops cedarwood, one flat tablespoon hyssop (because I don't have oil of that as I typically use it in tea), two drops peppermint oil. Boiling water poured on top. This is one mix i'm writing down for future use.
(I have a thing for ceramic bowls. Handmade, quirky. This one - black clay, cobalt-blue glazing at the bottom, two birds on top, fits perfectly in two hands.)
This entry was originally posted at http://hagar-972.dreamwidth.org/1372481.html. Please comment there using OpenID.