Friday, December 7, 2012

About Coffee


My cousin Gwen was musing about what coffee is best. She had tried Starbucks and wasn’t too impressed. Then she asked what kind of coffee our grandma used. I remember those colorful one pound cans with the key you used to twist off a strip around the top of the can.

If I remember rightly, Grandma Hammond used Hills Brothers a lot, but she also used Folgers. Mother and Father used Rejoice coffee in Peoria, but that's a local brand. Jim's family used Kroger's Eight-O'Clock which turns out to be pretty good coffee and still available.

My daughter Robin and her husband Chris are coffee connoisseurs and swear by the Sam's Member’s Mark 100% Arabica which they grind themselves. I find it a chore to grind my own beans, but they grind enough for a whole week at one time. If I could ever figure out how much that would be, I could do it, too.

Personally, I just stick to Sam's Great Value decaf and Folgers Vanilla. In a 12-cup pot (which is not really 12 measuring cups worth), I put 1/3 cup of decaf and 1/6 cup of the vanilla. Ahhh. It's good. Even tastes good the next day heated in the microwave.

Our favorite coffee "on the go" is McDonalds. I don't think it can be beat. I just wish I could buy the grounds so I could make it at home.