02-07-2007, 04:41 AM
For brewing your coffee, I highly recommend the aeropress. It's rather like a plastic version of a french press, but makes espresso - and then you add more water (or milk.... tastes just like café au lait a la Café du Monde) if you want regular coffee. Community coffee (coffee & chicory) can tend to end up a bit bitter, esp. if over brewed - coffee I make at home has never tasted better. The thing cost $30 and makes comperable espresso to expensive coffee shop espresso machines - and it's almost ridiculously easy to clean - a big plus over the french press it replaced (thanks kitties!).
The smell of roasting coffee is a familiar one in NOLA, especially as I now live around the corner from a small coffee bean business that roasts their own. MIght have to actually put aside the Community for a day or two and try out some of their stuff
The smell of roasting coffee is a familiar one in NOLA, especially as I now live around the corner from a small coffee bean business that roasts their own. MIght have to actually put aside the Community for a day or two and try out some of their stuff