What's in your glass / cup right now .....

Joe, an ancient Italian lady in North Beach told me that roasting of beans for espresso drove off many of the various oils and who-knows-whatsis that freak us out, while retaining blessed caffine, praise be. That's why conventionally brewed crapola is nastier than espresso.
 
it's 10.50 am here and it's orange juice ... not even freshly squeezed.

Too early for something like wine or a mixed drink. I might have one of those tonight. I have to move furniture today. So a rum and coke at 9.00 pm might help loosen me up after playing at amateur 'mover'
 
It would be a nice brew of Lavazza or the French coffee a friend sent us from Aquitaine, but this morning it's chamomile tea. I'm fighting off a bug; I have a 99.7 F temperature, which my gf thinks is too high for the morning --try having a 104.5 Farenheit temperature, like I did the last time I had a fever, almost six years ago! Now, that's a fever.

So in comparison, that's probably the wimp brew of the thread so far...
 
This is Sunday evening here. The children are out. The younger is student, the older already works in Budapest. So we opened a "Bull-blood". This one is from Szekszard, from Mr. Vesztergombi. Believe me, this is a very nice red creation...

Cheers,

nemjo
 
I know how you feel Gabriel... I'm feeling a little under the weather myself this morning... I managed to shake my fever yesterday (didn't break 100F thank goodness!), but now I'm waiting out a throat infection.... Back to the topic... I'd rather be brewing up some nice Vittoria coffee, but it's orange Gatorade for me this afternoon....

Peter
 
ray_g said:
A steaming cup of Hawaiian Kona coffee.

Which reminds me... I've got to shoot a C&C photo with the Australian Lynx I just got in the mail from Gman.
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Had some just last week. One of the guys I drink my morning coffee with is quite finiky, so the best I can do is add some Vietnamese to columbian (if I am the first to make the coffee in the morning), except that he never complains if I make Kona. Go figure.

But this afternoon, just before coming here to RFF, I had some home squeezed limeade. I like it.
 
shutterflower said:
. . . if anyone is a wine enthusiast, and lives near Los Angeles, I have a great deal (about 300 grand) of rare wine - about a thousand bottles - that I would like to unload in the nearest future.
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My cellar is much neglected, but I still have a case of Taylor Fladgate '62 and Lynch-Bage '82. The only honorable way to unload wine is to drink it! However, if money is tight and the wine is worthy, call the big auction houses (Sotheby's or Christie's), and they will take care of the matter entirely. $300K is a small allotment in this domain.
 
Today, I shot a photo assignment with a 4x5 view camera that is due next week for my photo class at the local JC. I found a museum of millitary equipment up in El Monte,(California), and made a few pictures there. Needless to say, carrying this camera around all day made me thirsty, so right now I'm trying to enjoy a Bacardi Silver Watermelon.(It's all that was in the fridge, my wifes' idea). Not too impressed really. Too sweet. If I had my druthers, I be enjoying an OB Lager, (from Korea), or a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, from my hometown of Chico, California.
 
jano said:
I thought I was the only one who ate kix (general mills). I just read the ingredients, look, it contains trisodium phosphate, yikes!
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Hey, trisodium phosphate, a bad thing then? I guess I'll have to kick KIX off my list too. Darn. I love Kix.

In my cup : Keiffer (strawberry) + Whey protein. Makes for a very high protein, tasty shake-like deal. Kind of like a slightly tangy strawberry milkshake that has melted down. May have misspelled keiffer (kieffer). It is a yogurt-like drink. Fermented with cultures of keiffer(Kieffer).
 
Right now i am drinking homemade hot chocolate. 3 teaspoons of coco powder, 3 teaspoons sugar. 1 teaspoon oil, and frothed milk to top off the glass. Yeah that feel good on a cold night!
 
jan normandale said:
Hey I'm sure a lot of us just sit and chill while surfing RFF. Sometimes its coffee, tea, orange juice, mineral water. Other times it's wine, beer, rum, scotch.

I'm always looking for something new. So I'm letting you know right now I'm drinking a glass of 2001 red wine from Portugal, Periquita from Jose Maria da Fonseca. Very nice! I may attach a pic for this after I'm thru my first sip.

cheers, sante, skol, prosit etc etc ...

jan
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Arrowhead water, vintage last month.... 😀
 
dostacos said:
Arrowhead water, vintage last month.... 😀
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I'm still working on the Fonseca red. I'm a slow wine drinker. A fair analogy would be that I'm not like a thoroughbred but more like a Clydesdale.

But what is Arrowhead Water. Anything to do with the dam of the same name?

BTW Trius, Noilly Pratt was my dad's fave for Martini's
Shutterflower, want to have Trius and I over for a party? .... joke/humour
 
MMMMMM Kefir.
Tasty stuff, but fairly hard to get hereabouts. Only places that seem to offer it are Russian shops.

In Turkey they have something very similar to Kefir, that they drink all the time. Best I can figure out, it's Kefir very very well shaken, with salt and a little milk or water to lower thickness. Best thing around for hot days or spicy food.
 
shutterflower said:
Hey, trisodium phosphate, a bad thing then? I guess I'll have to kick KIX off my list too. Darn. I love Kix.
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Trisodium Phosphate??? Also seen labeled "TSP", often found in the paint section of the hardware store. White powder, put a tablespoon full in a gallon of hot water and use it to wash your walls before painting. Fantastic non-sudsy grease-cutting cleaner. Also good for soaking the grease filter from the vent above your kitchen range... If it's in KIX I suppose it must have other uses, and not harmful ingested in small amounts...?
 
I lived on kefir when I was living in Russia.....very tasty, but the "bite" is a little bit frightening. It reminds you that you are downing a glass full of billions of tiny living things. Eww.

then again, living in Japan I have eaten things that were still alive (shrimp, clams, urchins (from the sea, not the gutter)), so I guess I can deal.
 
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