Colombia El Peñol is back! This coffee was one of my favorite offerings from 2014, in fact, I created one of my favorite pairings with this coffee (which never made it to the blog. Maybe I’ll recreate it with this new offering!) This coffee randomly appeared on the scoop bar at the Roastery for a short time in mid October, and is the subscription coffee for the month of December. This coffee is elegant and balanced with notes of black currant and a touch of bittersweet chocolate.
While I was in Sacramento, I came across a lot of very old recipes, and I have been having fun recreating them, and breathing new life into them. The jam bars are very easy to make, and are the perfect compliment to Colombia El Peñol!…
The holidays are all about tradition, and I love that 
Growing up, around Christmas time, my mom would always make her famous curry and serve it with a mandarin orange salad. It is probably one of my fondest food memories. I wanted to take that idea of curry and mandarin oranges and apply it to a coffee tasting. Ethiopia Gedeb is the perfect coffee for this. Ethiopia Gedeb has intense apricot and ginger notes to it, I knew those flavors would compliment curry very well.
Cold brewed Colombia Cerro Azul served inside an ice sphere with a pineapple, sage and lavender simple syrup. This is a little bit of a more specialized technique with a little bit of of trial and error. You can do this with any cold brew and syrup combination, or even cocktails!!… 
