COFFEE TIME

In case you hadn't noticed, I have a serious coffee addiction. I love the smell, the taste, and I especially love a great coffee shop. Unfortunately our little city has, well, about zero cafes beyond the normal corporate mainstays. Needless to say, we've been making a lot more coffee at home. Thanks to some awesome Christmas gifts, we were able to set up our own pour over set up in our kitchen and let me tell you, it makes some damn fine coffee. It's definitely stronger than our ol' french press, but the taste is really great. Here are the basics for what you would need to bring the pour over into your home. We found the Blue Bottle book really helpful for getting started out. Be warned, we bought that Hario grinder, and while I love it, it's kind of a pain in the ass. When we have the cash, we will definitely be investing in a high quality electric burr grinder. 

+ Coffee Goods +

Hario V60 Ceramic Coffee Dripper

Hario Coffee Mill

The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee

Meritage Cuvée Coffee

Pour Over Coffee Scale

Heath Stack Mug

Hario V60 Buono Kettle

WEEKENDING

coffee, coffee, and more coffee / sushi at kome / manicure

Sometimes I feel like my travels revolve around coffee... probably because they do. While back in Austin, I drank a lot of coffee, ate a lot of food, and soaked up the 70 degree weather. It was dreamy. 

I don't know about you, but I am incredibly excited for Thanksgiving! It will be my first time cooking the whole meal, and while I am intimidated (see: incredibly intimidated), I am eager to test out my skills. Happy short work week everyone! 

WEEKENDING

This weekend was a pretty mellow one, but this pumpkin danish pretty much made up for any dullness. There's just something about a great cup of coffee (or large iced latté) and an indulgent treat (especially when pumpkin is involved) that really makes a weekend for me. Here's to a great week and to a quickly approaching trip back to Austin for Austin City Limits. I'm just a little excited. 

WEEKENDING

                 

Lucky Peach / Coffee / Coffee Shopping / Bourbon Renewal

I'm pretty predictable with my weekend routine; coffee, reading, coffee, reading, good food and (hopefully) a good cocktail. I tried out this recipe for the Bourbon Renewal, which I found via this lovely ladies' blog. Much to my delight, it was really, really delicious. It will definitely become a staple in my cocktail repertoire.  Other weekend activities included seeing The Master (woah, intense) and making carnitas, which takes forever but is tasty enough to make up for it. 

WEEKENDING

spyhouse / magers & quinn / blackbird / pork bun / peanut noodles

I have to say that I definitely enjoyed my long weekend, which is probably evident by the fact that I didn't get back on here to post about it until today. Having just moved to Minnesota, we don't know much about our closest metropolis, Minneapolis, so we decided to get out and explore. On Saturday we found, I kid you not, our dream coffee shop. I always thought that Austin would hold my favorite cafe to laze at (I love you Houndstooth), but Spyhouse officially wins the award for best ambience. I could literally rhapsodize for days about how perfectly homey this place is, but I'll refrain. On top of being beautiful the coffee and confections were topnotch. Needless to say, I'll be back (I'd be there everyday if it weren't for the whole being 65 miles away thing). The rest of the day involved a badass bookstore, a great record store and a crazy good meal at Blackbird.

On next weekends agenda? A Rembrandt exhibit and copious amounts of espresso.