Americano Coffee

中文菜谱： 美式咖啡

Both my husband and I enjoy a couple cups of coffee together every day.  We drink decaf.  But good decaf coffee beans are really hard to find.  To my surprise, we found a good one during a visit trip to my sister and brother-in-law in Colorado.   They introduced us to a local organic store coffee.  It tastes good. So we left Colorado with six bags of these organic decaf coffee beans in my carry-on luggage. 

About two months later, they are almost all gone.  So my sister sent me more coffee beans, along with two pounds of black lentil beans we use to make lentil sprouts.  (It is posted before here: http://www.yankitchen.com/english-blog/lentilsproutssalad)

Coffee time!

I didn't realize I misplaced the bottom stainless steel board until we finished our coffee。。。。。This machine has excellent reviews in amazon, see here.

My husband is making coffee, so I have all the time to take pictures.

Love the crema.

We are not that into espresso.   So we add hot water to make our favorite Americano coffee. 

It does smell and taste really good. 

Almond Milk

 中文菜谱:  生磨杏仁露

I don’t remember when exactly I became a fan of almond milk.  All I remember is that in college we pretty much ordered almond milk as our drinks every single time when my boyfriend took me out on dates. He now is my husband.  We still enjoy a cup of almond milk from time to time when cuddling on couch. 

Ingredients:

2/3 cup blanched almond (skinless almond would make better looking almond milk.  I am fine with whole one.)
2 toasted or pan roasted sweet rice
2 to 4 tablespoon sugar (or to personal taste)
1rolled oats (optional. It makes silkier, smoother almond milk )
3 cup water

Directions:

Soak almond and sweet rice in water for 20 to 30 minutes. 

Combine almond, sweet rice, sugar, rolled oats and water in vitamix.  

Turn it on, gradually raise speed from 1 to 10, and then grind at high speed for 5 minutes.  

 

In 5 minutes, you have hot tasty freshly made almond milk!

Enjoy!

Hot milk tea

中文菜谱：奶茶

Nothing can beat a cup of hot milk tea in a cold winter night! O(∩_∩)O~

This is a very quick and easy way to make hot milk tea I learned from Weixin circle.   

 

Ingredients:

1 black tea bag
1 to 2 tablespoon sugar
1 cup whole milk

 

Directions:

In a large glass bowl/ cup, add tea bag, sugar and whole milk.  Microwave on high for a couple minutes until the milk boils.  Mix well and microwave another 30 seconds to 1 minute.  Discard the tea bag and enjoy!  

Milk tends to bubble vigorously when heated.  Please do use a large glass bowl or cup.  And stay close.