The New Year is here. While 2009 proved to be one of the more difficult years I have gone through, there are many things that I am thankful for. But mostly, I am thankful 2010 is finally here. Sometimes after having a rough day, I get to a point in which I just want to go to bed so I can wake up to a fresh start of a new day. Once month after month go by with difficulty after difficulty, I get to the point in which I want to go to bed and just wake up in a new year. Now it’s here.
I am thrilled to face this new year with new resolution. Not necessarily “resolutions” but resolution in my heart and spirit to become who I desire to be this year. Sure I have ideas of things I want to change because of the new year, but making resolutions seems so silly…I am sure to break them.
Who do I want to be? There is plenty that I want to change about myself, areas that I want to grow, pound I want to shed, behaviors which I would like to do away with and new habits which I desire to adopt. But one thing seems to remain the same year after year. The way coffee makes me feel. I love holding onto a warm mug full of dark coffee – especially on a cold blustery morning.
Happy New Year! I wish you days filled with warm mugs filled with your hearts delight. This coffee recipe delights my heart!
Café al Chocolate / Peruvian Coffee with Chocolate
Adapted from Bebidas Calientes y FriasServes 4
1/2 cup of coffee grounds
4 teaspoons of cocoa powder
1 cinnamon stick
4 cups of boiling water
Brown sugar to taste
1/4 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
1. Mix coffee and cocoa powder in the bottom of a coffee press. Press cinnamon stick into the coffee mixture. Add boiling water, stir to moisten grounds. Cover with press and allow coffee to steep for 4-5 minutes.
2. Press coffee and serve into coffee cups. Add brown sugar to taste. Sprinkle with cinnamon. Serve.
I feel the same way about coffee. There is something about the morning ritual that is so comforting and reassuring, especially when the day before has been hard. This coffee looks delicious, I might have to try it tomorrow!
Morning rituals are comforting & reassuring. I like that. ~Gretchen Noelle
That looks amazing. Love coffee, and coffee with chocolate, come on. Its the BEST! Happy New Year to you as well Gretchen.
My husband returned from a visit to Peru raving about how wonderful the coffee was. I wonder if this is what he meant. I’m going to share the recipe with him.