Showing posts with label coffee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coffee. Show all posts

Friday, September 10, 2010

figs!

Usually the short fig season is over before I can think of things to do with them. I wait all year for the beautiful green figs to ripen. They come, I eat a couple, and then they are quickly devoured by the birds and Japanese Beatles. That's that.... and so another year I wait.

However, this year I decided I'd pick as many as I could and quickly, before they disappeared. What the heck do you do with that many figs though?!?! Make jam!

So now I have delicious fig jam, but another question begs answering. What the heck do you do with that much fig jam? Haha!
Maybe a moist little cake flavored with fig jam and brandy? I adapted this recipe from a South African dessert known as Malva Pudding. It calls for a small amount of apricot jam.... I, of course, used fig!

Now what should I do with the purple figs I picked??

Monday, May 17, 2010

Mug Love.

Do you have a favorite mug you always go for when it's clean? You know, the one your coffee just always tastes better when sipped from. A mug so well loved you'd never let anyone else drink from (because it's so worn from age and use...... and you'd actually be embarrassed for anyone to use it)?

I'm not sure why, but I feel compelled to show you my favorite mug. The one that always makes the mornings a little brighter. It's icky and old and I LOVE it!

First of all it's huge. The more coffee it holds, the better! And second, while I'm not a real big Tinkerbell fan, I just love her totally bratty and mischievous expression!

Bet you thought my favorite mug would be of the vintage variety! I do happen to have some really cool vintage mugs, but this very much not vintage mug is my very favorite.

I want to know, what does your favorite mug look like?

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