my cinnamon coffee today

So... on this happy sunny October day (not like yesterday: misty and gloomy) my heart goes on! It was my wife who followed our babygirl to school today, and I stayed at home (have a lot of work for my job recently). We drank tea at breakfast ... and when my wife returned home, she brought a surprise! And not one, but two, two pleasant surprises.

She loves to pamper me, and she knows how-to. On her way back, she walked into the lovely local Bonapé mini-bakery and bought a huge Napoleon-type cake (I love puff pastry, that's my weak spot :). Lately, we used to try how this cake is prepared in different cafes.

Our experiments (we collected samples from four local cafes) showed that the best Napoleon cakes are being made in Bonapé cafe!

And for her beloved herself, she bought delicious rye bread with seeds. By the way, my wife knows how to bake bread with yeast sourdough herself! The most correct and natural bread, exactly as our ancestors did. Now she does not bake it, in fact, she is tired - this is a very demanding business, the process must be continuous, you cannot order the yeast to "pause." But it is also very grateful, uplifting, in terms of the return that you receive ... one way or another, but now we dont cook bread ourselve, but buy it, alas! You need to pamper yourself as well :)

But back to coffee. We are addicted to 'Guatemala Antigua' coffee from the Russian brand Jardin. This information is unlikely to be useful to you, this is not an international brand and you are unlikely to find it in your local stores. but for my Russian friends: highly recommend!

Very decent coffee in the middle price range. The packaging looks like this. This is kind of "industrial package" for coffee shops and bars, with the package weight of 1 kg. Such packaging is much more profitable to buy, rather than usual retail version packed as 0.5 or 0.3 kg. The price is about 1600 rubles, and with a small discount the packaging cost us 1100 rubles, which is about 15USD (for comparison: the minimum prices for coffee are about 500-600 rubles, which is about 8USD -> and this will not be coffee made from acorns ;).

Good light is, of course, the key to beautiful cards. I drink coffee in the back of the room (photo above), but for photographing, I still arrange cups on a chair near the windowsill, and use the light from the window (photo below). Feel the difference!