I Love Coffee!

Hey Y'all!

I know I don't typically talk about food or drinks on my blog, but there is one part of my life and dialy routine that I simply cannot do without and that is a nice, steaming cup of coffee!


Alot of people don't really beleieve me when I say this, but I have been drinking coffee since I was 8 years old--though its not as regular as it is now.
I had always heard about coffee when I was child, but never really knew what it was. My daddy drank it every so often when he'd take me to McDonalds for breakfast and my mom spoke of drinking as she worked as a chef downtown at the country club (and later as a janitor in a welding supply company) And in school my teachers were always guzzling it by the cupful.
But I didn't get to try any until I was eight years old. I'd always ask daddy to taste his coffee and he's say no causeit'd stunt my growth. I'm five-foot-four now, the average height for the American woman, though I add three inches when in a pageant. Anyway, I finally got my hands on cofee as a kid when Starbucks first came out with thier take home iced coffees. I saw one in the store for like 2 dollars and asked my mom for it. That was at 3 in the afternoon. I drank the whole thing, 8 ounces as we walked around the store.
At 4 am the next morning, i was STILL awake and best friends with brown elixir.
Over the years, I've tried plenty of big chain brands and at home brands and I have a favorite for each.

My favorite big chain brand has to be Dunkin Donuts coffee.

I started out with the medium coffee, which I think is like 16-20 ounces but I eventually graduated to the large coffee, which I usually get with a bagel on the way to dialysis. I prefer an exceptionally sweet coffee since DDs is very strong. So--gasp--I add 15 sugar packets. That's not a misprint, I really do. I put in one creamer, stir and I'm good to go. If I had a particularly sleepless night, I get an extra shot of expresso in it. The most espressos I ever got in one cup was five, and had the shakes and heart palpiltations for a while. LOL.

My favorite at home brand is Folgers Instant. I'm lazy, I'm not gonna buy a coffee pot or a Kurig thing just to make a cup of coffee for a single person. My father can no longer digest coffee so I am the only drinker of it in my house. My mother has gone to heaven and doesn't need it as an angel.

I always get classic roast, as it has the nice, robust, slightly chocolaty flavor I prefer in a coffee. And it's always the regular kind. I don't understand the purpose of decaffinated coffee. It's like an oxymorom, like a tall midget. It makes no sense. And chew on this, in the so-called decaffinated coffee, it still has a 5 percent caffiene content, damn it.
I prepare my home coffee the same way.
I take a red dixie cup, and pour about 8 ounces of bottled water into it. I cannot drink tap water, it makes me sick.
Then I put it in the microwave for 90 seconds and put one heaping sponful of crystals in and stir it.
I had another heaping spoon of non-dairy creamer,

I use the original coffeemate creamer, as the flavored ones just don't taste right to me.
I add only 4 spoonfuls of sugar and a dah of Torani flavored syrup.




I prefer the Hazelnut or the Vanilla syrups. They're only 5 bucks a bottle, and make such a difference in the taste. I love it. You can also use them to flavor milk and hot chocolates.

Well, that's just a little bit about the coffee I enjoy so much. I know some people don't like it, but I absolutely LOVE it! Especually on a cold morning!