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bread & coffee


A Simple yet tasty meal.

Brummel & Brown[i] yogurt spread, honey if you want sweet.

The preparation here is simple: make the coffee, swab the bread in the dish of spread, and [optionally] squirt some honey on it. Yum.

The bread in question here is pumpernickel rye from the SuperTarget bakery [target.com]. In fact, all the ingredients came from the SuperTarget, since it's right up the street...

Also used in the preparation of this meal - Melitta coffee filters, Starbucks coffee (Sumatran, "cone ground"), Nestle CoffeeMate [powdered] non-dairy creamer, Ice Mountain spring water, and the RTH brand hot pot[i] from CVS Pharmacy.

The Archer Farms Blueberry Honey ["Archer Farms" is a Target store brand] pictured in the Picasa gallery looks cool, and isn't bad, but doesn't taste much like blueberries - apparently the honey is made by bees who are feeding on blueberry plant blossoms or something - it's not blueberry flavored - which is okay unless you were expecting a taste like Smucker's blueberry syrup or blueberry preserves (either of which might be good on bread, as well, but I didn't have any of those).

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