What’s as good, if not better, than food photos…

Coffee! Of course!

                         

 

Brew me up

     I made an amazing cup of greek coffee today. It was nice and smooth, no feeling of dust in the drink – even when I got to the bottom of the cup, sipping up the last bit of liquid that was just above the bed of coffee grounds. Is it even fair to call them grounds? The fineness of the grind hardly seems to qualify them as something so gritty sounding as grounds – they feel something more like… silt. Yes, that sounds better to me. Anyway, this cup was delicious and inspired me to photograph the step by step process I go through to make it. Now, I’m no expert, and have only been making greek coffee for a matter of days so there may be other (possibly better) techniques out there, but this is what I do:

 

Greek Coffee

     I have awesome friends. Today, a wonderful surprise came in the mail. My greek friend, and former flatmate at RHUL, sent me a set up for making greek coffee.

 

Coffee, Cafe, Kofe, Koffie, Kaffe, Kape, Kaffee, etc

     My best bud Skunkie did me a huge favor and home roasted some coffee for me. This was all the more a display of her awesomeness since I have been invariably deprived of coffee in these last few months , because of monetary issues. Mmmmm coffee. I love coffee, though I am by no means the blooming aficionado that Skunkie is quickly becoming. I remember not too many years ago I absolutely hated coffee and could only drink it if it was drowning in flavored syrups/creamers. But not anymore. Now I’m slowly working my way toward enjoying coffee with out all the bells and whistles, besides the ones it naturally comes with anyway. In honor of Skunkie’s mad roasting skills, I decided that I would do a coffee photo shoot. I have a couple of reasons for this: one, I told Skunkie I would do a review of the coffee she gave me for Atomac.net, which must have a picture to go with it, and secondly, because I know Skunkie has been on the search for decent coffee wallpapers for her iMac. Now, I don’t know whether any of the ones I took are gonna suit her needs for a wallpaper, but no matter, ’cause I had fun doing it.