Life of Si (Page 8)

Seasonal Collection Espresso

Seasonal Collection Espresso Origin Coffee Season Collection Espresso This is my first pulped natural coffee and it comes from a number of farms in the Minas Gerais region of Brazil. The lead is Fazenda Lagoa which has been growing coffee for well over a 100 years. I love the fact

Bread Rolls

These are the first bread rolls I’ve made. I’ve been wanting to make some rolls mostly to eat with soup and to make better use of the amount of dough that I make. I find rolls freeze better as they’re self sealed – no raw edge is exposed.

Centurion

Centurion This film was recommended to me by a friend at work and as luck would have it, it showed up on Amazon Prime. Centurion is a story based around the disappearance of the Ninth Legion, which has been the subject of several films, more recently, Eagle. In this version,

Delivery!

Origin Coffee, Cornwall, UK Woohoo! Origin Coffee delivery

Oat & Linseed Plait

Oat & Linseed Plait

Coffee Waste As New Food

Interesting article: Coffee Waste Could Lead to New Nutritious Foods – NDTV Food ›

The Man In The High Castle

The Man In The High Castle

The Man In The High Castle As an Amazon Prime customer (which I can’t recommend enough), I was offered the chance of buying an Amazon Fire TV stick for next to no money and decided to go for it. I’d watched a little bit of Amazon Prime, streaming

Mocha Feather

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The basic mocha of sweet chocolate and bitter coffee is a thing of beauty in itself, but this one, with its hit of salty intensity, is on another level! –Jamie Oliver Mocha Mocha

Kochere

Kochere A second sample from Monmouth Coffee and a more citrus flavoured espresso. Very nice and very fresh. Kochere Black tea and citrus with bright acidity and light body Sage Brewing Detail Dosage : 8 Grind : 16

Monmouth Espresso

Monmouth Espresso Monmouth Coffee is a wonder. It’s two coffee shops in London have queues running out the doors and into the streets and it’s wholly justified. This is great tasting coffee and with my new machine, I simply had to buy a small sample. Monmouth Espresso Their

Three Cliffs Bay

Three Cliffs Bay Three Cliffs Bay A good daytime coffee, satisfying and full of flavour. Sweetness and maltiness come through well as an espresso. Adding milk develops the caramel and toffee notes. Strength Number: 3 Sage Brewing Settings Dosage : 9 Grind : 11

Italian Espresso

Italian Espresso Italian Espresso I saw in Waitrose that the Three Sixty Degrees coffee I’d thought so much of as a ground coffee was available as a bean. I snapped up this and another one with some excitement. Unfortunately, the beans were simply not as good as the ground

First Sourdough

Sourdough bread is made with a starter or levain. It’s a slow process, designed to maximise the taste of the bread. I made two loaves and a couple of small bits n bobs for my first effort and they took about 8hrs to prepare and bake. Every hour, the

Mocha Art

Making Sourdough

Various stages of making a sourdough loaf. Kneading Dough

Introducing Turner…

Turner is my new Tamagotchi, it is, in fact a sourdough starter given to me by a friend at work. I’ve not been baking bread lately with Worcestershire Film Festival and my birthday and then Christmas, however, I’m excited by the prospect of using a levain, even if

The Boy In Striped Pyjamas

The Boy In Striped Pyjamas

The Boy In Striped Pyjamas I was kindly lent this film from a friend at work after recently watched The Pianist again. Last week was 70years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration / extermination camp and it had occurred to me I should learn more about the Holocaust and to

Cappuccino Art

Cappuccino Art Some of my very own latte (cappuccino) art. I’m still very much learning but was pleased with this.

M&S German Rye Granary

M&S German Rye Granary

This was a dense, hard bread with a nutty flavour

M&S Fig & Hazelnut

M&S Fig & Hazelnut

A springy, moist bread, teaming with fruit and nut.

Waitrose Sumatra Mandelhing

Waitrose Sumatra Mandelhing This is special coffee, not because it’s from Waitrose, nor because it’s Sumatra but because it was given to me on my birthday whilst on a secret getaway. Sumatra Mandelhing In essence, back in November, on my birthday, I was got up at 4:20am

Excerpt from the Waitrose Magazine

Fazenda

Fazenda Fazenda This coffee was bought in a Dartmouth cafe boasting wood roasted coffee. I thought this would have to be tried and my father-in-law commented it was the best latte he’d ever had. The cappuccino I had was also delicious so I bought some of their beans, the

Hands On Coffee Roasters

Hands On Coffee Roasters Hands On Coffee Roasters Hands-On Roastery is based in Wadebridge, Cornwall and during a camping holiday near Bodmin, we decided to walk to Wadebridge and then on to the roastery. It was located on an industrial estate in a non-descript garage looking building. Inside, we were