Coffee

Koa, I know exactly what you're talking about. Infact, not long ago I was in London (actually Crawley, a small town near Gatwick Airport) and after eating a British meal - tastless chicken with tastless potatoes although yummy peas (the British do like their peas) I came up with a new saying:

When in Rome, do as the Romans...
When in England, eat at an Italian restaurant

Ravana, how in the world could I have left out Turkey; the country with possibly the greatest coffee lovers in the world? I'm going to add an entire verse dedicated only to Turkish Coffee.

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Originally Posted by Sancho

When in Rome, do as the Romans...
When in England, eat at an Italian restaurant

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LOL!!! :brow: ... :banana:

Italian food is soooo gooood!

Eva, no m’am,

I’m not French, but I do like French Fries. Oh yes, also I like French Toast – with French Roast COFFEE! Yeah!!!

As for French Wine: C’est si bon. It is so good. There is nothing else in the world like a good Bordeaux. My wife likes to make a big pitcher of sangria with a bottle of French Beaujolais, 7-UP, and sliced oranges.

Hey, so your cola-red-wine idea gives me an idea for a new song:……. I hear ukuleles:

Tiny bubbles, in the wine
Tiny bubbles, make me feel fine
Tiny bubbles, make me warm all over

OK, so maybe that was Don Ho’s idea.

hello ravana,

I am in a hurry. just a small note - IT WAS DELICIOUS :thumbs_up well, the whole family liked what I did, and if that's exactly what you've been talking baout ( I followed your receipt), I understand why you like it...
THANKS for tip.... I owe you one...

Hi Eva! I'm so glad... I was waiting for your comment scaring that you would dislike it.

addition adwise:
1.If you would like to do it again you can add it into milk instead of sour-cream.
2.before having it stir it.- I forgot to tell you.

sancho, Azerbaijan's meals are as delicious as Italian's, maybe more than.

mmm kebab...

Oooh... after eating little but cereal and dried fruit for the past week (attribute it to laziness) I can only say... *drool*

:D

hi ravana, advices accepted. I would like to do it again but with syrup or someting sweet. but I like the version sour cream plus milk. really great. it was also caused by the tough day I had and it was so.... FRESH having it in the evening, fascinating... I should stop complimenting it otherwise whole forum would be about this ;)
and the pictures of yours. do you imagine that right now I am starving at work? try to guess what those picts did to me :D

hi sancho, great idea that of your's wife. honestly I did not have drink for some time now... I ought to have one today... many things to celebrate. I will try the way you mix it. sounds interesting. once we did similar things, mixed sangria with some sprite or something and added a lot of fruit into it. imagine the amount of people drunk etc etc... and then the whole garden was full of **** that was eaten by dog and so this poor dog slept for two days completely drunk also :D survived and is very well, no damage on animals in my house, do not worry. just no one will ever forget this night...

Slightly off topic (surprise!), but speaking of getting drunk off fruit, ;) have you heard of this?--> You take a whole watermelon, drill a little hole in the top, and insert a funnel. Then you fill the funnel with vodka and leave it, checking now and then and when it has drained empty, you fill it again; you keep doing it until the melon has enough vodka for you (either until it's as much as you want; til it won't hold anymore; til the bottle's gone; til you think the paramedics will still be able to recuscitate you... ;)). Then you can cut it up and serve it like you normally would -- probably a good idea to tell your friends it's not normal watermelon, though. That is, assuming your friends lack their senses of taste and smell. :p

here that is called 'yukkaflux' Em. and if done right there is very little to give away the fact that there is vodka in it. i think that is why one chooses vodka, it has little scent or flavor on its own. anyhow, here we also use other fruits and soak them in alcohol and then eat them. this is a great way to get immediately drunk and stupid. i havent done it for years.... ;)

Hehehe sounds like a good way to play a dirty trick. :goof: :D

this is what I have been talking about.... something you never forget... and I personally do not want to try again :lol:

Hahaha! :D Don't worry, I'll try it for you, Eva. ;) *evil plans percolate*

hehe thinking about it twice.... :brow: no no no I must resist, it was terrible :sick: but in my thoughts always with you emily, enjoy *cheers*

Morning. Bar. Coffee. Cigarette. Bliss

mmmm.....coffee... cigarettes.... morning ....bar?

Hopefully a coffee bar?

hello ravana - question:
if I add syrup into it - what would be the reaction considering syrup as I think of is from fruit and thus there is a part as lemon and lemon + milk is not the best reaction.... :D
asking before having chance to spend weekend on the place where "even kings walk by themselves" ;)

Hi eva. You are very clever. If you haven't asked you would probably spend the weekend their.
Thanks the God!
Were you going add syrop into milk? you must add it into ready gatig and stir it. And the syrup that I meant was a syrup of jam (cherries, strawberries etc)

let me give you another good receipt regarding to gatig. Add into gatig some water (not much) cut cucumbers, greens, salt. Have it with bread. It's also delicios.

oh thanks, this thread is definitely turning into cooking thread. I wish I could give you some receipt, but (unfortunately) I am not a great cooker. living on my own exactly 1st day :D the only thing I cooked was gatig ... thanks for the other one, will try it very soon.... somebody who wants to join me ? ;)
wauuu... I like it...

Oh, eva, I'm really very delighted that you liked my favorite drink so much.

Oh, don't think that I'm great cooker. To make gatig and "ovdug" (the last thing) is very easy. I can cook only some easy meals and learned it lately. As I'm going to marry I have to learn cooking.

There's another meal - "dovga" which is also made of gatig, Its cooking process is a little difficult. Bit it worth to do it. It's most delicious. I've never cooked it before, so can't now give its receipt. But I'm going to try to cook it this week. I'll need the help of my mom. Then I will share it with you.

Eva, it's random thought: Maybe then being a great cooker at our meals you would be able to open a little restaurant of exotic meals. ;)

Ps. according to "ovdug". Add quite cold water, not warm ot hot.

oh, it is very kind of you to tell me those receipts, really. Even my boyfriend loved it, althought he was little suspicious at the beginning. I suppose I love it so much because I am in love with cheese and milk and all things that come from it. and it was also refreshing. I will prepare some with that syrup of jam today, so that we can have it tomorrow. yummy :)

to the restaurant, I love to cook, but it should be called "experimenting" :D
I love food coming from foreign countries but Vietnam food.
Will think of some receipt and include it in that thread you started. emily is right, what is better than good book + good food + feet on table ;)

I dont know whether someone has mentioned about this (i'm too lazy to read from the beginning)...well i'm a coffe addict my self...like 4 or 3 cups a day...then one day my mom told me that coffee is bad for woman's fertility..then i said o really ma? i gave it a checked at this healt journal and she was right.
well her words got in to me then i tried to stop..but i couldnt..so i said to my self.."ok, i believe in God and i also believe that children come from God not from coffee.. so there's no use of trying to stop drinking coffee only cause i want to have children"
Bit ironic that i have that kind of thinking...but hey as long as i can drink my coffees..anything goes..

I heard the same, I also checked and it was true :eek2: but I love coffee, just having one in front me yummy I am trying to cut the number down, as I love children, there are days though when I drink up to seven and there are days as yesterday when I need only two.
any receipts or ways how to prepare coffee? maybe some of us are preparing it in unusual way and want to share? I drink just ordinary, coffee and a milk. ordinary way of pouring water into it. so how about YOU?

im the same as you evulik but not milk, cream. the richer the better, although i hate how too much cream makes the coffee cold. coffee must be hot hot hot. i actually have one of those things that sits on my desk and plugs in (cause i dont have enough power sucking gadgets at my desk :confused: ) and acts like a small burner to keep my cup hot.
on occasion i will add sweetened condensed milk instead of cream and sugar(i understand that is how it is often prepared in Thailand). it adds a completely different flavor. however, i am not a fan of all the flavored creams (irish cream and hazelnut and so on) just because to me, coffee should taste like coffee. if i want irish cream, i'll open a bottle of bailey's. ;)
how bout Chai tea? anyone here a fan? i will quite often brew a pot on the stove in the evening. a couple of cups of milk, two chai tea bags, a few spoons of sugar, mmmmmmm........i have this silly little whip thing too that makes the milk all frothy for extra decadence. i pour it into a cappucino mug and drink it over a crossword. wonderful!

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Originally Posted by subterranean

ok, i believe in God and i also believe that children come from God not from coffee..

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LOL, it was very funny put like this...
(ok so if I'll ever have a bf I'll start drinking coffee instead of using other ways to avoid the kids...;) :D)

As for the question of particular ways of making coffe...well, how do you make coffe? With a kettle or stuff? In Italy we normally use a thing we call 'coffee machine' or 'moka', I don't think I've seen it elsewhere...

in canada we have coffee makers too...you put the ground up beans in a basket and pour a potful of water in the top and it drips through and Voila! coffee. i only use that when we have company and need more than two cups at a time, because we also have a french press, and that is what we make coffee in for mornings. you put the grinds in the bottom of this large glass jar thing with a handle on it and add boiling water. after about four minutes or so you put the top on and there is a plunger type lid with a sieve on it. you push it down and it forces all the grinds to the bottom and the coffee just pours right out. i find that the coffee retains more of its bitter flavor with the press, and is much stronger...perfect for mornings. the problem with it is that the coffee you get out of it really stains coffee mugs, and therefore, i assume, teeth. we are vigilant about the use of whitening products. :nod:

love french presses. really great for green tea, too. (and other loose teas, of course. ;))
yum! was about to ask about them when i saw your post.

oh well, just usual way - either by moka-coffee machine (I am not sure if that's the same as in Italy), or when in a hurry pour water on coffee ;) I love what I drank in France, called "Cafe Ole", hope I have it correctly. There is a lot of milk milk milk, thus the coffee is not that strong. And I love COLD coffee (we have saying in Slovakia - that cold coffee makes us prettier, imagine the beauty in me :D )
and I do not like creams, sugar and other things in coffee. I did not like milk either, but then I fell in love with milk and you know how it is with love, once you are there you are deep inside ;)
for the whitening toothpathe, cannot be missed, with the amount of coffee I drink without whitening tootpathe I could be a sun during nights :lol:

by the way, the question was put so that I pick up some new ways from you guys... thanks for tips...

i rarely use coffee machine/maker, ussualy i often mix the coffee my self, and i thin it taste much better. and i prefer dairy creamer instead of milk, add some cinammon sometimes

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Originally Posted by evulik

oh well, just usual way - either by moka-coffee machine (I am not sure if that's the same as in Italy), or when in a hurry pour water on coffee ;) I love what I drank in France, called "Cafe Ole", hope I have it correctly. There is a lot of milk milk milk, thus the coffee is not that strong...

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I think it's 'café au lait', which just means with milk... We call it 'macchiato', spotted - Though there's probably much less milk.

I have attached the pic of the coffe machine we normally use, hope it works.

O gee..looks like an ancient one to me :D :D

hi KOA, I have the same at home :) but my father travels a lot and he brought it from somewhere, so we do not have it in Slovakia... usually... I love coffee from it and then I add half glass of milk into it and that's it yummy

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Originally Posted by subterranean

O gee..looks like an ancient one to me :D :D

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But that's what we normally use... not electric bar-style ones...
what do you use then?

It's a percolator! Like in the Maxwell House commercials.
Ours is buried somewhere in the back of a cupboard, since my mom just buys one or two cups a day at Dunkin Donuts and my brother makes a thermos of instant to bring to work. My dad drinks tea. But our thing looks more or less like this:

http://buy.overstock.com/images/products/P65524.jpg

ah, you technologic ones :D

i've seen those in england, i dont know anyone who has that here... we like oldfashioned ones :)

that's almost identical to the ones we have here.
mine has a stainless steel carafe instead of a glass pot, that's really the only difference.
oh, and they run anywhere from about 20.00 at WalMart to 250.00 (cdn) at the finer kitchen shops. of course, there are many different features you can get: timers, so the coffee is brewed right when you get up, steamers for making cappucinos etc.

I miss the electric pitcher things they have in the UK. I don't know what they're called, but there was one in every hotel room and they were really handy. You fill this big plastic pitcher with water and plug in the cord and it boils the water without a stove, for tea.

oh you do not have it where you live? It is really useful, especially in the office. you know those day, it is raining hard, you feel really bad, without energy and gray and then you use this, makes a coffe or herbal tea (mint) and suddenly life is fine ;)

Salam eva!
you know i began to have a cup of coffee every morning at 11. It's my coffee time. Before I had it just when I was offered. Sometimes I want more but can stop myself on time thinking that if not then I'll end up as eva: 5 litres a day, oh sorry I confused it with your tea, 2 litres a day :D