Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Tuesday 4 October 2016

A learning experience....

Always double-check the packaging.

Having been organised enough to anticipate the impending emptiness of my last packet of coffee, I took the latest purchase out of the freezer, only to find it was a packet of beans rather than ground for filtering.

What's more, I have no coffee grinder. A food processor (slices, grates and liquidises, but that's about it); a stick blender (no, I don't think coffee soup would work); but no coffee grinder as such.

And then I remembered a Christmas gift from years ago. Out from under an accumulation of old, half-used spice packets (I dare not reveal how old) came the pestle and mortar. Five minutes' or so of vigorous pestling (or mortaring) produced something close to a brewable powder.

The results were palatable enough; and a tiny bit of exercise to boot. I call that a small victory, Or a score-draw at least.

4 comments:

  1. The "vessel with the pestle, chalice from the palace" bit is one of my favorites. Mildred Natwick was brilliant! They broke the chalice from the palace! LOL

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  2. If you dig deep enough you never know what you'll find at the back of the cupboard.
    JP

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  3. Full marks for resourcefulness,
    but time to go buy a coffee grinder. I keep my beans in the freezer and grind only as many as I want at a time; result: coffee bliss. Even though mine has to be decaf. Waitrose do an excellent Colombian decaf.

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