Coffee

[ducks4you]

Ain't technology great! Reading the thread...drinking coffee...in my Yeti.

 

[digitS']

Cup of oolong.

Honeycrisp don't make the best baking apples - too juicy. After peeling, coring and chopping - the apple went into the microwave for a minute with some raisins mixed in. Brown sugar and several large spoonfuls of oatmeal cooked on the stove ...

Splash in some almond milk and I have breakfast.

Steve

 

[Artichoke Lover]

Had coffee and leftover pizza for breakfast. Now I’m trying to find the tums

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Having my coffee and watching the big tree outside start the blow back and forth in the wind. They say we are going to have high winds today and I hope my greenhouse on the patio hangs on. I brought my plants in last night and they are on the kitchen table. I put an old tablecloth on and I think they are going to have to spend the whole day in. Only going to be in the 40s and wind and rain. I planted seeds yesterday outside of spinach, lettuce, radishes and Swiss chard. I was hoping it would rain and it did.

 

[ducks4you]

I drank coffee and was listening to the Spring birdies singing!

 

[Phaedra]

Coffee this morning while working

My favorite chocolate cookies recently~

 

[ducks4you]

Such lovely china!

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Coffee and an apple fritter this morning! I love apple fritters but it’s been about 5 years since I’ve had one. They are just as good as I remembered them being!

I envy you. It's probably been about the same time since I had an apple fritter, at least a GOOD one. There used to be a place in NYC that made great ones, but then Mayor Bloomberg came in, and his trans-fat ban basically KILLED the apple fritter scene in NYC, and, indeed, in the whole state. Regular oil works OK for regular donuts, but it just doesn't get HOT enough to fry a fritter. And then, to compensate for not being able to cook through, they all replaced the actual apple bits with a blob of cheap apple pie filling in the middle, and then started to GLAZE them!

I seem to have a similar problem now with Lemon donuts (or indeed any lemon filled pastry). It's sort of a dying flavor around here now, so fewer and fewer places make them. And the ones the markets bring in from the Polish bakery company are frozen on the way, so they come out stale and soggy. Makes me almost want to look in again to getting a good deep fryer and trying to make my own.

 

[flowerbug]

i had an apple fritter about a month ago and it wasn't that good. to me an apple fritter is best if it is like a cake donut with chunks of apples in it and then chunks of it are deep fried and then glazed. the kind that are made from raised donuts i don't like much at all and that was what i had. just not right to me. i really only like cake donuts most of the time anyways and once in a while we make some cream puffs here that i do like and they are from a more eggy recipe and are not deep fried or raised but just baked and the steam from baking puffs them up. it is much better to me and much less grease, also the batter for the cream puffs or the filling doesn't have much sugar in it in comparison to an apple fritter or a glazed donut so it's really good and better for me anyways to not have so much sugar.

when i get up next time i'll go hunt up the recipe and post it in another place as they're good for something different and not too hard to make - but it will likely take a few batches to figure it out. oh dear, eating rejects... what shall i do?

 

[digitS']

Having my coffee and watching the big tree outside start the blow back and forth in the wind. They say we are going to have high winds today and I hope my greenhouse on the patio hangs on.

Criminitly!

Wind gusts up to 60 mph. I'm convinced as of this afternoon that one tree in the yard has to go.

The entire tree was moving, branches and trunk!