Showing posts with label Coffee making. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coffee making. Show all posts

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Terranima Café



Yesterday I took my midmorning coffee in this tiny and very cute café in Parona, a village a few miles from Verona, along the Adige River. Stepping inside I was welcomed by the warm scent of the freshly ground coffe - oh, so irresistible!
I approached the wooden bar and asked for an espresso. The guy, called Marco, prepared my coffee and served it along with a little glass of water (quite a typical thing in Verona) and then placed a small leaflet with information about the type of coffee he served me (basically a selection of four types of Arabica).
I couldn't help, I had to take some pictures!

Monday, March 30, 2009

Moka Bialetti


Every italian home has at least one moka. This is the iconic Moka Bialetti for the best coffee at home. It's brand new, I bought it just a few days ago because the old one, for mysterious reasons, didn't work well any more.
You know that I love coffee, and coffee making is a little daily rite. I keep the ground coffee in an Illy tin box on the shelf. I put tap water (no higher than the valve - you can see that bolt on the left of the moka base) and a few teaspoons of coffee powder in the filter, until it's topped and then close the machine very tightly. Fire should not be too strong and the flame should never be bigger than the base of the moka. The photo shows the coffee coming out: just a few seconds before I turn off the fire and the foam comes up. 

Do you have a moka at home?
 

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