We've been drinking Caribou Coffee for about a year now. Today, as I was making my mid-morning pot, I got to open a new package. I love opening the new package, the smell is so lovely and I like to read the flavor notes on the package to see if I can tell. I took a minute to read the directions and noticed that they - they being Caribou Coffee people - suggest using two heaping tablespoons of coffee grounds per six ounces of water. Curious, and because maybe there is the slightest, tiniest, tinniest bit of an engineer in me - or because I've been watching so much Curious George lately, I measured how many ounces I had put into the coffee maker and then did a bit of math to find how many suggested scoops I should use.
It turns out, more than we normally do. I had put six "cups" of water in the coffee maker - six "cups" meaning the "cup" marker on the coffee maker, not actually six cups of water. Apparently, this equals four cups, or 32 ounces. We normally put one scoop of grounds per one coffee maker "cup" of water. For my experiment, or just following directions on the package, I put in ten scoops (I rounded down to 30 ounces to alleviate having to do fractions of scoops, my willingness to do math without being paid only goes so far).
Why, one may wonder, am I writing a blog post about this? I'm not sure, but my coffee was rather good.
Also, while writing this I've eaten several Molasses cookies. Homemade, molasses cookies. Now, while I feel like I could leave it at that and maybe sound like I'm impressive - taking care of two small children and baking homemade treats - I should explain that we have Life Group tonight at church and are responsible for snack, and I haven't been to the grocery store in a very long time. I decided to search my pantry, fridge, and two dessert recipe books to see if I could find something to make without having to venture out, in the rain with my two small children, and did I mention that we don't have butter or normal white sugar? Molasses cookies was the answer. Why do I have a large jar of molasses in my pantry?
I can be resourceful when it means I can stay at home. I'd like to say this is because I grew up in the middle of nowhere and just driving to the store took 20 minutes (one way), but really, I just like being at home and can be rather lazy about dealing with car seats, strollers, carts, carriers, etc. and don't like sweating walking in the grocery store parking lot. Judge me if you wish, but it's November and 88 degrees! So, now I've baked a delicious fall treat - and even have a small batch made for our neighbor who has been ill. They are quite yummy, the Squirms cried when I told her she couldn't have another "cook-key", and I'm not sure how many will actually make it to Life Group tonight. I just know my dad is going to make a comment about all of these run-on sentences. Our social workers made us take run-on sentences out of our adoption profile book. I found this link for my defense: stream_of_consciousness_(narrative_mode). The worst part is the size - the recipe says to pinch the dough so each cookie before baking is rolled into the size of a walnut. That takes a lot of time. But the cookies are better when smaller - again, I did a little experiment to see if there would be a difference.
I'm done with almost all of the coffee now.
