One of the finest things in life is the sight of a lovely cup of coffee, preferably with a biscuit or something by the side of it to nibble on between sips of molten goodness. Non-Working Monkey knows that.
Recently befriending the new owners of a proper tea room in Stoke Newington Church Street I have lucked into possession of a whole box of really cute little French dishes, with checks on them in different colours, for a rock-bottom £20 - & am mighty chuffed about it! The small cups, in particular, are so thin they feel like eggshells. They make the coffee taste divine.
I had actually bought the ingredients - almond extract, for example - to reprise my last-year's triumph of making my very own homemade biscotti (saving almost an entire pound sterling on each one) but alas, I haven't yet made them, so this morning there were no biscuits to be had. But! There was instead some gorgeous bakery bread, toasted, with Bonne Maman compote des quetsches - damson jam, to you and me - straight from France.
In other words, while nothing like the Legendary Coffees of Amsterdam it was still almost like being on holiday!
Next week, Genuine American Diner Coffee...
6 comments:
As I sit here eating a juicy lucy chocolate bar I wonder why you take snaps of teacups and biscuits. Then I think, I would like to be there too. Then I think this snap would be so much cooler if you can see where it was taken on google maps (it will also track NWM western world tour). And low and behold. It exists! NWM, please use me it says....
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/08/youtube-style-embeddable-maps_21.html
Should warn you - genuine American diner coffee will dissolve your lovely eggshell thin French cups...
... it's still quite early here and maybe that's why "lovely eggshell thin French cups" sounds slightly dirty.
Coffee shop coffee (no, not that chain that starts with "star")must be drunk from paper take out cups (preferably that vaguely Greek design in blue and gold)with the plastic snap on top that doesn't quite snap in place in order to allow one to spend the workday in a coffee stained shirt.
Me thinks the coffee shop owners have a deal with the dry cleaners.
I like the tiny check design - I can admire, but would never use.
No, no, no, you really don't want American diner coffee! Especially not in those pretty delicate cups! Please tell me you'll have some good Dutch coffee instead. Buy Douwe Egberts, it is the best brand. I promise you will have a wonderful cup of coffee, providing you make it right, of course.
THe Fry, I take snaps because it's fun! As I'm just guesting here I'm also taking snaps of coffee because it is something non-Working Monksey does that I like very much.
The map thing will be her decision, of course.
Megan (and Irene) - no! The American diner coffee will never come near the little French cups. I'm going TO America tomorrow, and that is why I will be sitting in their diners, eating stacks of pancakes while sitting in pdded red naugahide booths, and getting free refills in lovely thick white diner cups.
Megan, as to "eggshell thin French cups" sounding dirty, maybe you need a coffee. Failing that, a new bra?
Jali, no fear of me darkening the door of the S*@!%ucks place. I sympathise completely with the dripping takeout cup scenario, the same thing happened to me only yesterday.
Sweet Irene, thanks for the tip, yes Douwe Egberts is great coffee. I use a drip filter cone - or a (pretentious, I've been told) Alessi stovetop espresso pot which has never given me anything but joy.
Normally, though, I just go out for coffee - which is what I'm about to do. Enjoy your hot drinks, all!
nice cups wink wink
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