Coffee and new blog looks
I’m a coffeeholic. I know I drink waaaay too much. But I can’t stop myself.
What’s that have to do with tea in China? Nothing.
But it does relate to a post over on Paula Wethington’s blog, Monroe on a Budget.
Monroe on a Budget is the most recent of the blogs at Blogsmonroe.com to get a facelift. We’re slowly, one at a time, switching from the original Wordpress blog template (which you see here) to more customized versions for each blog.
Other recent makeovers were on The Erie Hiker and What is Normal, two of our most popular blogs.
Anyway, one of Paula’s most recent posts was about coffee makers. She made the point that when you’re the only one in the family to drink coffee, traditional makers are impractical.
Here’s the best coffee maker I’ve ever found for making a single cup.
A few years ago, our son studied for a semester in Costa Rica. When he returned, he brought me a coffee maker he purchased in a public market for a quarter - or the Costa Rican equivalent.
It was a simple wood frame, abouty six inches tall, with a cloth sack hanging from a hole in the top. There was room for one cup under the sack. You filled the cloth sack with the right amount of freshly ground coffee, poured hot water through it, and let it steep for a few minutes.
Voila! A great cup of coffee. No hassle. No electricity (except maybe to heat the water). The only problem was that the cloth wore out after a couple years and I was too lazy to find a replacement and too inept to figure out how to connect it.
But it would make a great cottage industry for someone to make similar handmade coffee makers and sell them at farmers’ markets, craft shows, etc. Maybe I’ll save the idea for retirement income.