Cafe cubano
my gate is right across from the kiosk with the cafe Cubano....I have contented myself with a cortadito and moved as far away as I can because I know I will not be succumbing to the lure of the yummy -- mostly because I'm pretty sure the amount of sugar in a cafe cubano might actually kill me.
it would be a good death though.
HW: 306 SW: 282 GW: 145 (reached 2/6/19) CW:150
Jen
I am so hooked on anything coffee. Headed to Kona, planning on doing the Thunder Mountain Kona coffee tour. Stay tuned. We may need to meet up discover this new Kona coffee wonder.
And did you know that vanilla beans come from orchids??? Also doing that tour. We did, however, bow out of the night manta ray snorkel tour. It sounded good until I realized that it is: 100 yard swim at night, and then you hang on to a float ring while 9-foot manta rays do barrell rolls in front of your face. Ummm, maybe no.
Oh, this is a bad one ? it?s basically like coffee cocaine.
Here?s my story ? a few years ago, I took a role in our Miami office to do a 3 way, 9 country integration. The first afternoon, the receptionist walks into my office and she?s carrying a small styrofoam cup and about 20 medicine cups, the small ones that you would put 1-2 pills in or maybe use for ketchup at a fast food place. She says ?want one??
I immediately think ?this is a test? and decide the right answer is ?of course!?. She pours this dark liquid into the medicine cup gives it to me and I shoot it down. Oh, it is AMBROSIA?-super strong, super sweet, and you feel it hitting your bloodstream. I have never done illicit drugs but one shot of this and I know why people do it. Oh it was good! And it happens around 3 pm EVERYDAY! I love Miami and this tradition but am surprised when I see people having 2-3 shots at a time.
Carry on two weeks and I realize I am not sleeping, I?m a bit twitchy all the time so I think ?we?ll, what?s changed?. So I ask Maria, can I watch you make the cubano? I follow her to the break room and find out the process:
Cafe Bustello Espresso, steam milk container, sugar
drip a little bit of espresso into container, add at least a cup of sugar, stir into paste with those few drops of espresso, once made into paste, add espresso until small styrofoam cup is full (about 2.5 shots). Add more sugar if needed. Share with friends!
I understood then why I wasn?t sleeping and was twitchy. I said oh, that?s it. Don?t you have trouble sleeping? She looked at me and laughed and said ?we?re Cuban, we drink this in our mother?s milk?.
HW: 306 SW: 282 GW: 145 (reached 2/6/19) CW:150
Jen
