Comfort Corner

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The carpet is thick, soft and cream coloured, while the walls are a yellow bronze colour. In the corner along one wall there is a large sofa, able to seat 4 or 5 people comfortably. Along the other corner wall there is a smaller sofa for 2 or 3 people. In the middle of the furniture, there is a low, round coffee table, perfect for colouring at or for other craft activities.

There is a scratching post and a cat tree for climbing, which are both along the wall opposite the couch. A few fluffy beds have also been put out, in varying sizes, in case any one prefers the floor. There is also a large sturdy perch and a marked off area that says "Landing Pad" in case any winged friends want to visit.

There is now a blue chaise chair in the nook as well, which has been placed near the couch and is good for both sitting and spreading out lengthwise. There are also two armchairs; one an oversized, deep gray leather chair, the other a square fabric armchair in deep blue with light purple swirls on it (Think this style except not grey).

There are two baskets off to the side. One contains fuzzy blankets, a variety of fuzzy and textured pillows, and a collection of stuffed animals while the other contains a variety of art supplies, ranging from colouring pages and blank paper to crayons and coloured pencils, and more besides.

For refreshments this week, we have some chicken noodle soup, spring mix salad, chilli, homemade bread, polish muffins, and some soothing teas.

Comments

[technoshaman]

Mmmm, cuddles!!

The white coffee is very tasty! My fosterling doesn't care for traditional roast coffee; its soon-to-be-housemate is a barista and has been looking for a coffee drink it will *like*... we were out trying to get its new-to-it violin fixed today and had a very frustrating time of it, and it had been meaning to go to the cannoli place near my co-parents' place... and so we went and got cannoli and I got my usual lavender white chocolate mocha (dark coffee) and it asked, "Make me a coffee drink for people who don't like coffee?" and the barista came up with a raspberry white coffee, which is a double shot of espresso made with white coffee, white chocolate, and the raspberry syrup... NOM. Tasted like raspberry-flavoured milk with sort of a peanut note from the coffee?

The other thing about the white coffee is that, because it's not gotten nearly as cooked as the darker beans, it's a lot harder to grind than regular beans... so one often gets it pre-ground, which means somewhere between drip and espresso ... that's what the Aeropress is for, a wee manual brewer which is about half way between a pour-over and an old-school lever espresso machine. The trick to it is the paper filter, which can handle the fine grounds much better than a French press... the 'Press's maker says it makes "espresso-style" coffee; ummm.... not quite, because espresso requires a lot more pressure than you can generate with just body weight, but you *can* (and I have) make something the Italians would call a "lungo" or long-shot, basically about three times the water through a puck slightly larger than the usual espresso dose... which, if you press that into a mug of steamed milk, will net you something very much like a latte a barista would make. I've made my trademark white chocolate lavender mocha several times, and made a regular mocha for my elder stepk... grown-ass adult... a couple of times, and we really can't tell much if any difference.

If you like good coffee in smallish quantities but without a lot of faff and a reasonably fast brew time, the Aeropress is your _friend_... 240ml of coffee brews in about 2:30 plus whatever time it takes to grind and heat water (which can be done in parallel), and the cleanup is an absolute doddle. Thock! goes the spent coffee into the compost, a brief rinse and wipe of plunger and filter basket, DONE.

bit of an infodump, but there ya go...

[fuzzyred]

That sounds quite interesting. I lean towards iced coffees, iced capps, and cold brews from Tim Horton's most of the time. I'm a fan of creamy and sweet; not such a fan of bitterness. It sounds like the white coffee would have less of the traditional bitterness but still have some of the coffee flavour, which I do actually like.