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patio season
It is only just the second day of May and I find myself sitting on the patio at the local Starbucks. Yeah, I know. There is a likely chance that you are reading this from somewhere in the world where (a) patio season in May is entirely normal and (b) eighteen degrees would not be
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Local Flours Sours: GroundUp Coffee Flour
I was feeling adventurous when I bought a wee bag of local-ish upcycled coffee flour from a local food market. For what it purported to be, coffee flour turned out to be little more than milled used coffee grounds, cleaned, dried and packaged as a gluten-free additive for bread or other baking needs. When I
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Perfecting Pour Overs
Opportunity? Or maybe a concerning symptom? I’ve all-too-often tapped into the nearly unlimited informtion pouring from the internet and found myself wandering into deep, dark caverns of complexity on a narrow and specific topic. The last couple months that topic has been coffee. Back in September I hinted that I had been dabbling in pour
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Short: Pour Over Coffee
Maybe it was obvious, but those little coffee pods had their moment… and that moment has passed. At least, it has for me… And maybe it’s also obvious, but picking up a cheap little pour over cone (for roughly half the cost of a box of pods) has me making my afternoon cup in a
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Our Well-Loved Cookbooks: Cooking with Friends
Bear with me. Just as I may be accused of jumping on the pop culture bandwagon (following my twitter and news feeds being filled yesterday with the sensationalized announcements that some middle-aged actors from a television show that ended fifteen years ago are having a reunion episode) apparently authors of cookbooks do the same. Back