I <3 coffee

I have a passionated relationship with coffee. I remember the first time I tasted it. I was 13 years old and on a cabin trip with some friends of the family. They said something about how only grown-ups like coffee, and I, being the stuck up child that I was, naturally retorted that of course I drank, and loved, coffee. Surprised, they poured me a cup too, asked if I took milk and/or sugar, I of course said I preferred it black, and sat back to take a sip. And it was love at first sip. I never really got into the milk and/or sugar thing, but I fell in love with everything about regular black coffee.

I love the way I can nurse a large cup of it between my rather cold hands in the mornings. I love the way that first sip of slightly too strong coffee tastes. I love that refreshed feeling I get after that cup. I love the way you can mix it with chocolate and make it even more nummy. In short, I love most things about coffee.

So this is what surprises me. Usually, I've found that the people of the world can be split into two factions: then ones who love coffee, and the ones who don't like/drink/haven't tried it (some of these do drink coffee, but only to stay awake, or not so often). And I know I can squarely place myself in the first faction. But most people who love coffee with that fiery passion that I do, have perfected their love for coffee in a very fancy way. sandchigger has a fancy coffee maker that grinds the beans before making the coffee, bubble_the_fish have spent what I would call a lot of money on a fancy espresso machine. Now, I'm not one to argue here, I agree that these thingamabobs do make great coffee. It's just that even though my coffee maker is old and cheap, and even though I lost my measuring cup so I just pour a dash of pre-ground coffee into it, never quite making the perfect cup, but usually ending up with a bit too strong or ridiculously weak coffee, I just love the coffee it makes anyways. I even like the nescafé coffee, and will usually make that in the mornings if I'm a bit late. I got no quarrel with it, usually I just pour a bit of that into a cup, making it either ridiculously strong or damnably weak as well. I just like the regular, old-fashioned coffee, with no extra stuff like fancy names or fancy machines. Just coffee. Plain black coffee.

(Getting back to work now. Next time, I'm going to try and blog about secret recipes, the ones you only eat by yourself and don't share with other people.)

Secret recipes

I'm getting a cold, and I'm still not done with my report. It's beginning to look grim this work. So, I decided to take a break and blog. I mean, it usually makes me feel better. Today's topic is:

Secret recipes

Everybody’s got them. The meals you only make by yourself, for yourself. Those little dishes that you find so nummy but you know, often through painful and/or embarrassing experience, other people do not appreciate. I like to call them secret recipes, because people who normally love to share recipes and make food together never speak of these dishes. So why do I bring them up?

Well, I thought it was time to break the rules, as they say. I will share my secret recipes with you, and you can share yours with me. This started out because [Bad username or site: ”sortkatt” @ livejournal.com] shared a secret recipe of one of his old flatmates with me, I think mostly to talk about how gross it was, and I had to try it. It has now become one of my secret recipes, since it was nummy and delightfully simple to make.

I have four special dishes:

1. Martine’s pizza:

Make pizza dough (water, flour, salt, 1 ts oil, oregano and salt)
Put ketchup on it.
Cut cheap, store bought sausages into squares and scatter them on the pizza.
Put cheese on it and fry it in the oven for 10-15 minutes.


2. Martine’s tomato-and-sausage-pot:

Put day-old (or newly made if you feel like it) cheap, store bought tomato soup in a bowl
Cut cheap, store bought sausages into squares and throw them in.
Put cheese on top and fry it in the oven for 10-15 minutes.

(Yes, there’s a pattern to my secret recipes)


3. Smikset (whipped) egg:

Whip an egg
Season with paprika, salt, pepper and oregano
Fry in a frying pan with ketchup and cheese.


4. Broccoli&tuna mash:

Boil broccoli and cauliflower
Add a box of tuna, salt and pepper
Mash it.

Now, what are your secret recipes? Odds are, if they’re easily made, I’ll love them.