a NEW way to try COFFEE…….(makes it better!)
I love coffee, but I found a NEW way to make it even better then it already is. If you have a friend who never liked coffee, this might just win them over…….and it is soooo easy to do! Click play and see……
Over the weekend, I was watching an old piece of television drama from the 1950s–a ninety-
minute play, done live at the time (it was interesting to hear actors saying lines over
other actors’ lines by mistake, for example). By the end, everyone was in a state of utter inner upheaval, screaming at each other–I mean, everyone in the play–and the lead actor actually burst out saying, by way of explaining how poor he’d been as a child and how he’d scraped his way to the top of the corporate ladder: “My father had a secret recipe for making his coffee better! He used to put salt and chocolate in the grounds!”
I sat up at this–knowing as I did that your posting was coming–and then pondered the serendipitous wonders of existence.
If you try Mr. Tortured’s idea, my advice is to use sea salt–especially some from England or Sicily–or kosher salt if you cannot get sea salt, and a good baking chocolate, like Callebaut or Scharffenberger. And then I would grind the salt and chocolate together, and then stir them up with the coffee grounds, and then just go for it. “How much salt?” may be a question in your mind, of course; the answer to it is, “Not too much.” (And sea salt is a lot stronger than kosher or regular salt–so keep that in mind, too.) On the other hand, Jamie Oliver would also say that chocolate and salt are best mates, so you don’t want to use too little salt, either.
Yours in adventuresome experiences with potables,
PM
Oops–almost forgot.
The moment in this video when you say, “Don’t panic…”
That goes on my list of “Funniest Things Rachel Reenstra Has Ever Said Or Done.”
It breaks through the “third wall,” if you know what I mean–the way George Burns used to do
on his very, very old sitcom. He’d just leave the other characters running around behind him,
in the background, and start talking to the camera. Using puffs on his cigar as a timing
mechanism.
I compare you to him without shame.
Love,
PM