A Day Without Coffee is a Day Wasted!

It's a ritual I've followed for many moons.

Get out of bed, or rather, crawl out sleepy-eyed, get my bearings, make a beeline for the kitchen, and turn on the kettle before heading to the ~~loo~~ little girl's room. Sometimes getting there in the nick of time, but the water needs to be on the boil before I do anything else;)

Nothing else compares to a magical cup of aromatic coffee to kickstart my day! Of course, it is even better eaten with a rusk.
What is a rusk? Almost like Biscotti, but a little harder, and needs to be dunked in coffee to soften it, or one can break a veneer, crown, or filling, which for sure will make the dentist smile ;)

Whenever I go on holiday, my one-cup French Coffee press is wrapped up lovingly, just in case there are no coffee-making facilities.
Don't even try and persuade me to try 'the very best instant coffee'! You're wasting your time, I simply will not fall for that!

Freshly roasted and ground is the ultimate, but only possible when going to a roastery. The second best is freshly ground, and my little grinder does the job very well.

Speaking of roasting, do you like a medium or dark roast?
I lean toward the dark roast but sometimes enjoy a smoother medium roast, which is what most coffee shops serve. A light roast simply does not hold any magic for me!

Foreign Ground Coffee is exclusive to one supermarket chain here in SA, and as the story tells you in my photos, they only use single-origin beans; handpicked from one plantation to give a pure regional flavour.

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The first step of course is the grind. I almost stick my nose into the ground coffee to get that first whiff of freshly ground beans, heavenly!
You can immediately see by the colour of this bean that it has been roasted to medium strength.

A big rounded coffee scoop into the plunger, slowly pour in hot water, let it stand a little before giving it a good stir, cover with the top but only plunge after about a minute or so - if you can resist the tempting rich coffee aroma!
There is no place to hide when making that coffee as the smell wafts down the passage.

I'm a night owl, hubby was the early bird, so he often used to get up early and make the coffee, a sure way to get me up!

A fluffy topping for sure brings a smile to anyone's face!

Hubby bought a milk frother a long while back, which looks no different from the coffee plunger, but froths milk up beautifully to make a mock cappuccino. In reality just a lovely cup of frothy coffee.
That original milk frother has been replaced over the years, as with our coffee plungers.
Does anyone know why they make the glass so fragile?
Likely so we have to buy new ones over and over!
They don't cost a fortune, so it really is no issue.
The French Press shows that one doesn't need costly coffee machines, and gives one the joy of brewing a good cup of coffee the easy way!
That first sip is pure heaven!