What is in your cup?

[mldavis2]

Ah, this morning's cup is a fresh, home-roasted Panama Las Flores de Boquete.

[astra]

Originally Posted by aceflor

I keep forgetting to ask, but here it comes..... what on earth is a flapjack ?

You ask the wrong person.
I guess this one explains it.

A flapjack is a sweet tray-baked oat bar made from rolled oats, butter, brown sugar and golden syrup

[bjones6416]

Originally Posted by astra

You ask the wrong person.
I guess this one explains it.

Wow, I had no idea. Here in the (southern) U.S. a flapjack is just a plain old pancake.

[VydorScope]

Originally Posted by bjones6416

Wow, I had no idea. Here in the (southern) U.S. a flapjack is just a plain old pancake.

Most places in the US, or at least every place I have been agrees with you, so does Wikipedia, and dictionary.com, and others;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapjack : A thick pancake, referred to as this particularly in United States and Canada

Other the places use it differently, but here in US its a pancake.

[astra]

Originally Posted by bjones6416

Wow, I had no idea. Here in the (southern) U.S. a flapjack is just a plain old pancake.

I came across flapjack by sheer chance.
A couple of months ago I had to do a blood test on empty stomach. I didn't eat from 19.00 till 14.00 the next day. I cannot go without food for more than 3-4 hours (except night time). So, when they released me, I crawled to the Addenbrookes hospital's shop, found flapjack bars. Read its content, realised it is a power booster and tried it
Since then, it became my staple diet on weekdays. For a branch with white yoghurt. Roughly 350kcal per bar. My OH doesn't like them. She says they are sickly sweet, which is true. It does the job though and I don't eat any more sweet food per day
They are sweet. I think I will have to give up on them within a month or two. I don't know why but my stomach or liver? develop a strong dislike for very sweet food. Hence I love palmiers on weekend mornings. They are dry dry dry...


Cuppa #7
Bojenmi

[aceflor]

Emptied the cellar, so we can carry all those boxes to the new house. Next step: go through the old toys in the kids rooms and prepare boxes to go to friends with smaller kids and the church.
My new kitchen is a dream.
Diet pepsi, watching the news (I don't like TV at all, but it is good for my spanish)

[beppe]

Originally Posted by bjones6416

Wow, I had no idea. Here in the (southern) U.S. a flapjack is just a plain old pancake.

That is what I thought.

[beppe]

To day, i drank a little glass of mead. Delicious.

[astra]

Originally Posted by beppe

To day, i drank a little glass of mead. Delicious.

something I want to try one day
Is it a German drink?
It is often mentioned in tales and I was always curious what it tastes like.


Meanwhile, post supper cooked Pu-Erh after delicious rib-eye steak medium-well

[wannabee]

I bought a bottle of mead when we went to the honey shop in Tasmania last June. A very sweet liqure. It's fermented from honey and I tried about four varieties before choosing the one we did. All were lovely.

Time to get out of bed and boil the billy. I think I'll have a coffee to wake me up.
Apparently there's 43 beans in every cup.

[astra]

The last cuppa of the day.
Keemun Fortnum and Mason

[beppe]

Originally Posted by astra

something I want to try one day
Is it a German drink?
It is often mentioned in tales and I was always curious what it tastes like.


Meanwhile, post supper cooked Pu-Erh after delicious rib-eye steak medium-well

I got mine years ago, I do not remember if in Trondheim or in Oslo, or maybe some where else. There was a time that I went up North frequently, maybe Copenhagen, or Stavanger. Lillehammer? Boh. I forgot the little bottle and the other day it came out. Very nice drink. Smooth, not too strong.

Apparently is the first alcoholic beverage invented. Wikipedia has a nice page on it.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by astra

The last cuppa of the day.
Keemun Fortnum and Mason

Ah, Keemun. Very nice way to finish the afternoon.

In my cup, Golden Dragon Oolong.

[aceflor]

tried mead once, much too sweet for me.

It is pouring rain right now, as in mousson-like, which means the summer season is now officially over and we will get those rainy days (that last usually around 5 days, more or less) regularly. Good for the plants, and the fire risk goes down, but it also means the "no electricity" season has arrived, which of course I hate.

Coffee in my cup, gearing up to step.

[beppe]

Originally Posted by aceflor

tried mead once, much too sweet for me.

It is pouring rain right now, as in mousson-like, which means the summer season is now officially over and we will get those rainy days (that last usually around 5 days, more or less) regularly. Good for the plants, and the fire risk goes down, but it also means the "no electricity" season has arrived, which of course I hate.

Coffee in my cup, gearing up to step.

I enjoyed my little glass of mead. I put it in a similar category of Pineau de Charentes and of its Southener cousin Floc de Guascogne. They are both aperitives and digestives, obtained mixing slightly fermented grape must and Cognac (Armagnac) eau-de-vie. One can either drink them cold or at room temperature. I have a couple of bottles lost somewhere in the cave, mementos of when, still childless, we took our holidays in the lost paradise of the Landes.
We rented rooms where they were available in a small village 5 miles from the coast. Some times we were very lucky, some times not that lucky, but the people were and are very very friendly and generous with their unbelievable vegetable gardens. Played tennis in the morning, shopped for fresh food, went to the beach on bycicle, played with the big ocean waves, came back, if hungry had a late lunch, a siesta, some touring around, either on bycicle or on roller skates, then an apero, usually at home, as there are no bars in the village, just a bakery and a small supermarket and a bookstore, and we went out for dinner, most of the times, but some times we grilled a huge steak or stuffed ourselves with Fois Gras that we got fresh from a nearby butcher, by car at this point, then to see a movie at the magic Le Cinema de Contis. Once in a while we drove South to see a Corrida de Toros, or the ancient shows of dancing in the horns of cows that those people still enjoy. Great holidays... haaaa. Well chaque chose a son temp.


They both are somehow richer in flavors and aromas than mead, although I think that making mead from a rich honey, preserving the original flower origins, could give very interesting results.