How do you like your coffee?

[Rayshields]

I like my coffee the same way I like my women.

(use your imagination)

You should be ashamed of what you're thinking.

In a rough approximation of a Woody Allen quote, "What does being paranoid have to do with people really being out to get you?"

 

[Knucklehead]

No name calling or anything here, we all have different tastes in coffee as we do tobacco.

Today I'm in a half cup of sugar and black coffee mood...give me 2 hours I'll be drinking straight from the coffee pot...

Isn't a half cup of sugar a little sweet?

 

[DonH]

That's a great price. You sure you didn't accidentally hit an extra zero? If it's accurate where did you buy?

Hannaford's. I don't know if you have them down your way. I bought a few boxes.

 

[DonH]

That's a great price. You sure you didn't accidentally hit an extra zero? If it's accurate where did you buy?

Dang, there was an extra zero. It's 100 bags.

 

[Michibacy]

Depends, what size is your cup

 

[istanbulin]

Since you asked, I like Turkish coffee prepared with a little amount of sugar. I also like sugar-free Turkish coffee with few pieces of lokum (aka Turkish delight). The coffee plant never grows in Turkey but name is related about its brewing method. It's never filtered and consists of foam, coffee and grounds. Well prepared Turkish coffee must have enough amount of foam on it. Here's a reading about it.

 

[Knucklehead]

Since you asked, I like Turkish coffee prepared with a little amount of sugar. I also like sugar-free Turkish coffee with few pieces of lokum (aka Turkish delight). The coffee plant never grows in Turkey but name is related about its brewing method. It's never filtered and consists of foam, coffee and grounds. Well prepared Turkish coffee must have enough amount of foam on it. Here's a reading about it./QUOTE]

Beautiful coffee service. Are those marshmallows on the toothpicks?

 

[istanbulin]

Beautiful coffee service. Are those marshmallows on the toothpicks?

No, they're lokums (aka Turkish delight). There're a lot of types of it (as seen in the photo below) but I generally prefer mastic lokum with coffee.

 

[wazzappenning]

i cant imagine leaving the grounds in. when for whatever reason my french press leaves a few grounds through and i get them at the end of the cup, it usually comes straight back out(hopefully im at sink/toilet/etc.

you must only drink half the cup i imagine? or do you drink the grounds?

like jitterbug, i roast my own and ever only have roasted beans around for 3 days or so. now thats fresh coffee. i take mine with 1 sugar and milk.

i was hooked on the guatemalan, but found fair trade organic at a health store for less. nicaraguan is good on its own, but i also mix peruvian (medium) with brazilian (dark),half and half, and thats very close to guatemalan

 

[istanbulin]

i cant imagine leaving the grounds in. when for whatever reason my french press leaves a few grounds through and i get them at the end of the cup, it usually comes straight back out(hopefully im at sink/toilet/etc.

you must only drink half the cup i imagine? or do you drink the grounds?...

When I was a child I used to love drinking (or eating) that grounds but I don't anymore 3/4 of the cup is suitable for drinking, 1/4 is undrinkable. But women generally use that grounds for fun by fortune telling from the coffe cup

 

[Michibacy]

Instanbulin, have any turkish delight recipes?

 

[istanbulin]

Instanbulin, have any turkish delight recipes?

I've never seen a homemade lokum, really. Everybody buy them from stores even my grandmother used to buy it It contains starch, sugar and different spices, dried fruits, wallnuts, hazelnuts, mastic, saffron etc. I've no idea about the recipe or preparing method. It may be a secret.

Edit: Nope, it's not a secret. There're a lot of videos on youtube about making Turkish delight also in English.

 

[Boboro]

2 cups in the mornin of what ever the wife puts in thir. Alittle suger and real cream Mybe a little alc. on the weekend.

 

[johnlee1933]

Psst There's a lady present. Grace - Let me apologize for these animals.

Hey Grace, I've been around women long enough to realize they have imaginations too. Just substitute "men" and grin a little at our discomforture. LOL

 

[gracebowen]

lol

Oh no! You're one of them

 

[Jitterbugdude]

Lokum... now that's some good eating. I get a box every year from a buddy of mine when he goes to Turkey to visit his family. Come to think of it... I haven't gotten any in a long time..

 

[Brown Thumb]

Straight Black, a whole pot by 11. First cup I take my Blood Pressure meds and three smokes with.
Wakes me up.

 

[Knucklehead]

Howdy brown thumb. that's alot of pick me up in the morning.

 

[jekylnz]

I like a good double shot moca in the morning,now if I dont get one b4 noon ,I end up with a headache for the rest of the afternoon
Even if I have a coffee after that,I cant get rid of it,another habit to add to the list.

 

[squeezyjohn]

Being English and all that - I should prefer to make my coffee with tea leaves ...

But a good long black filtered coffee with from nice full flavoured but not over-roasted nutty beans is just about heaven while working on a morning. One sugar please!

Coffee is not an exact science - which is why I appreciate it so much when it goes right.