Day 21 Stay at Home or In the Garden: Bread and Honey

Best way to start the morning: a delicious homemade bread, with homemade honey and fabulous coffee.

The recipes:

Sourdough Bread Baked in Wooden Oven

Hot Golden Spiced Frappuccino

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Hot Golden Spiced Frappuccino

Today I would like to propose you an eye catching beautiful frappucino with 4 layers: golden milk, coffee, milk foam and chocolate syrup.

You may also prepare the summer variation with cold ingredients (using a milk frothier for the cold milk for a more stable foam) pouring them over ice cubes!

In my blog you will find the recipe for “golden chai spice mix” with some serving suggestion.

Take a break and enjoy this coffee!

• Servings: 1
• Time: 15 mins
• Difficulty: medium
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You need:

• 1/3 cup milk (I used soy milk)
• 1 teaspoon golden chai powder mix, see my post
• 1-2 teaspoons sugar
• 1/4 cup hot coffee or 1 espresso
• Chocolate syrup (I made it myself and I added some cardamom) or cinnamon powder

Procedure:

1. Heat the milk in a jar the microwave. Watch closely until you see the first tiny bubbles form on the edge in about a minute and turn it off.
2. Remove from the oven, close the jar and shake until foam forms (if you have a milk frothier it’s even easier). Transfer the foam to the cup using a spoon. If you want more foam, shake it again.
3. Add the spice mix and the sugar into the milk in the jar and stir well until sugar is dissolved.
4. Pour the spiced milk on the side of a big cup watching not to disturb the milk foam. For this step the easiest way i
   s to pour the coffee over the back of a spoon to the wall of the cup
5. Pour the coffee very slowly in the same way into the cup.
6. Drizzle some chocolate syrup or cinnamon and serve immediately. Enjoy!

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Golden Frappuccino

Sometimes I need a change for my coffee and I inspired from my coffee-friends I explore new possibilities.

Recently I came across turmeric drinks (golden milk) and I found I could create a coffee with this wonder spice. But this time a cold coffee something like Frappuccino. The first question is how to bring the coffee inside of this drink as I wanted something that can be prepared in advance and then quickly mixed when needed. I did not want to prepare an espresso each time and cool this down, I also did not want to dissolve each time coffee powder. The solution I found was to prepare a stock of dense sweeten coffee: coffee syrup. This can be prepared in advance and be stored in the fridge.  For the milk, no problem, this can be easily frosted in just a few seconds before serving.

Ice cubes form the fridge and that’s it!

• Servings: as needed
• Time: 10 min
• Difficulty: easy
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You need

Coffee syrup (our “stock solution”)

• 1/2 cup freshly brewed espresso coffee
• 5 tablespoons instant coffee (best quality as for example Nescafe)
• 1 cup sugar (best if brown sugar)

For single golden frappuccino (for a 300 ml glass/cup)

• 1/2 cup ice-cubes
• 1/2 cup milk, cold and full fat (best if pasteurized milk)
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 -1 teaspoon turmeric (to taste)
• 2-4 tablespoons coffee syrup (see above), quantity to taste
• 1 dash cinnamon, optional

Procedure

For the syrup:

1. in a small saucepot combine espresso, instant coffee and sugar. Heat slowly (you don’t need to boil it!) and stir until sugar and coffee are dissolved. Set aside and cool down. Fill in a small bottle and store it in the fridge.

For single golden frappuccino

2. Fill ice cubes in the glass.
3. Place 1/2 cup milk in a jar or at least 1 cup (200 ml) volume and shake well for about 30 seconds until a thick foam is formed. Pour over ice cubes.
4. Place 1/2 cup milk in a jar together with the turmeric. Shake as you did for the first part and pour into the glass again.
5. Finally spoon the coffee syrup over the foam and top with a dash of cinnamon.
6. Serve immediately and enjoy!

Notes:

You can also simply combine 1 cup of milk with the turmeric instead of diving into two portions! I did it for the nicer look!

You can also prepare coffee syrup for one or two persons combining one shot of espresso with the quantity of sugar you like! If you need add some coffee powder, stir until sugar is dissolved.

Do you know the health benefits of turmeric? http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/8-impressive-health-benefits-turmeric/