CAFE CON LECHE

MEANING COFFEE WITH MILK

REALLY IT SHOULD BE CALLED MILK WITH A SPLASH  OF COFFEE.

EITHER WAY ITS FUCKING DELICIOUS.

I DRANK THIS ONE TOO FAST FOR PICTURES. 

So I guess I'll have to make another cup. That's such a tragedy, I might die, not really.

Along side the pictures I took while making it, I have some from when I was in Florida. 

The recipe follows with a lot of pictures. 

SO TO BEGIN, 

YOU USE THIS KIND OF COFFEE:

IT'S REALLY REALLY STRONG. IT'S ESPRESSO. THE POINT IS THAT IT SHOULD BE REALLY STRONG.

SO, BREW IT THE SAME WAY YOU NORMALLY BREW COFFEE, EXPERIMENT WITH HOW STRONG YOU WANT IT.

ONCE YOU'VE DONE THAT, PULL OUT TWO LARGE MUGS. 

Please ignore the dirty counter, my dad and I cook a lot. 

IF YOU DO NOT HAPPEN TO HAVE AT LEAST TWO LARGE MUGS OF ABOUT EQUAL SIZE, GRAB ONE MUG THAT YOU WANT, AND ONE THAT IS LARGER. 

ANYWAY, ONCE YOU'VE GOT YOUR MUGS, POUR SOME 2% OR HIGHER MILK IN ONE MUG. ABOUT HALF OR MORE.

BUT NOT FULL. TRUST ME.

POP THAT SNAZZY SNOWMAN MUG IN THE MICROWAVE. 

HEAT UP YOUR MILK. 

Preferably covered somehow, because it will get a gross film on top otherwise. That film doesnt stir back into the milk, so you'd have to skim it off somehow. 

WHILE THAT HEATS, FOCUS YOUR ATTENTION ON THE REMAINING MUG

WE'RE GONNA PUT SOME SUGAR IN THIS BITCH

ONE TO THREE SPOONFULS DEPENDING ON YOUR TASTEBUDS

I USE TWO

BECAUSE ITS DELICIOUS.

NOW. SALT.

YOU HEARD ME CORRECTLY. SALT.

NOT TOO MUCH, BUT THE RIGHT AMOUNT WILL MAKE YOUR TASTEBUDS VERY VERY HAPPY. 

SHITTY PICTURES ARE SHIT I'M SORRY.

NOW, AT THIS POINT YOU HAVE ONE ALMOST FULL MUG OF HEATED MILK, AND A SECOND MUG WITH SUGAR AND SALT, LIKE SO. 

NOW IN YOUR MILK MUG, POOR SOME OF YOUR FRESHLY BREWED COFFEE.

WITHOUT STIRRING IT SHOULD LOOK SOMETHING LIKE THIS,

NOW, THIS PART CAN BE TRICKY, BUT IF I CAN DO IT WITH ONE HAND YOU CAN DO IT WITH TWO.

TAKE YOUR COFFEE-ESQUE MILK AND POUR IT INTO THE SUGAR AND SALT MUG, GET SOME 

HEIGHT. WE WANT THIS SHIT TO GET MIXED UP.

ALSO. I SPILLED EVERYWHERE. DO THIS OVER THE SINK PLEASE. 

POUR BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE TWO CUPS ABOUT FOUR TIMES. 

WHEN YOU ARE DONE POURING BACK AND FORTH YOUR CUP OF CAFE CON LECHE SHOULD LOOK SOMETHING LIKE THIS:

It's pretty much ready to consume. Congratulations. You are now Cuban.

Just kidding.

This is what I ate all week in Florida. 

Toasted Cuban bread slathered with butter and cut into dunkable strips.

And this is how you eat it.

Literally the best thing ever.

You can drink the coffee by itself, or toast some french/cuban/italian whatever loaf of bread you can find that isnt sliced processed white bread. 

I'm a big fan of the coffee itself, and I also really love dipping buttered Cuban bread into it.

Another thing Cubans (like my family) dip into their cafe con leche is garlic bread.

DONT KNOCK IT TILL YOU TRY IT

it's garlic muddled in olive oil (some good quality stuff)

smeared onto toasted bread, just everywhere

then tomato slices placed on top

sprinkle with a bit of salt

I don't like dipping that into my cafe con leche. but I do enjoy eating that by itself

This isn't really anything new, it's something I have had since forever in my childhood. 

I originally posted this recipe, and many more to come, on my Tumblr. This page holds some of the recipes and reviews on my personal tumblr.

And this page is my cooking tumblr. I post food that my dad and I cook there, along with things my dad doesn't participate in. 

At some point I am going to transfer the recipes and reviews on these two pages to this blog. I will also still post there. So I will update all three pages. Some things might feature on just one, maybe all three. It largely depends on the post. 

If you read through this entire thing, congratulations, and thanks for dropping by. Stick around for more posts on things that I do.