High on iced coffee
Jun 10, 2008 The Story of My Life
- Want to know how to make great iced coffee? The secret, my friend, is using sweetened condensed milk. Two tablespoons for every cup of coffee. Just thought I’d share.
- The heat broke last night and we woke up to chilly rain. Everyone had trouble waking up but the one car situation meant they had to get out of bed because we’re leaving in fifteen minutes to take me to work. Poor grouchy kids. Poor Brett stuck with grouchy kids.
- Madison has been out in the wading pool every day this week and her hair is tight curly and gorgeous from being wet and then drying in the humidity. I love it!
- Noah slammed his face into the zip line. Slammed is the wrong word because, of course, a zip line is a very thin line. He was jumping off the elephant slide into the wading pool and walked into the line then slid down so that he looks like he was in a bar fight. It was traumatic. For me. He screamed and screamed and I was sure he’d scraped off some important part like an eyelid or his nose. Thank god he’s fine.
- I’m going out with my big sister and my little sisters tonight. (On my dad’s dime — thanks Dad!) All of my sisters are now adults — Whitney turned 21 last month. I can’t remember how old my oldest (not Erica) sister is but I want to say about 45? I think she was five when Erica was born.
- Pennie has a blog but I’m not sharing the link here. Anyway, she’s only updated it three times. Rats. And she only writes about food. I’d harass her more about blogging but she works full-time and goes to school full-time so how unreasonable would it be to harass her about blogging? Answer: Very unreasonable.
- Someone ate all of my peanut butter crackers that I take to work. I’ve been making him feel guilty about it but somehow this hasn’t made my peanut butter crackers reappear. Hmmm. Maybe I ought to try a new tactic. Like asking him to pick up more maybe.
- And now off I go into the world of fluorescent lighting. Where I will see no natural light for the next nine hours. Alas.
June 10th, 2008 at 7:21 am
1. That is called Vietnamese coffee and it’s AWESOME hot or iced.
2. Oh man, I hope it gets here soon (the broken heat, not the grouchy kids).
3. You are such a white mom.
Not more to say about the rest except sorry for the bad, yay for the good.
June 10th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Becca, I got it out of a Thai cookbook and was surprised it tastes just like those expensive bottles of Starbucks frappucinos I’ve been drinking here at this place called “work.” So can you freeze sweetened condensed milk? Because I don’t usually use a whole can when I make it. Oh and also — I got invited to a restaurant opening. Does one bring a hostess gift to a restaurant opening?
June 10th, 2008 at 9:42 am
yum coffee- i used to make simple syrup till I wised up
poor babe- glad he is ok
may the next hours fly past for you xo
June 10th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Ah, yes, Vietnamese iced coffee is awesome. I make mine with coconut milk - it’s a lot sweeter than soy milk and avoids the whole, um, milk ugliness (I’m allergic).
Ouch! Poor Noah. Hope he’s doing better soon.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Mmmm, coconut milk! That sounds really really good — thanks for the tip! And Noah is just shy about looking battered, I think. But he feels ok.