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.

I wanted to create a tasting that was a twist on a classic snack; french fries and ketchup…. 

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Ethiopia Gedeb launches in Starbucks Reserve stores on September 6th. I am so lucky to have friends from Seattle keep my coffee bar stocked with coffee from the Roastery, weeks before they launch in stores, so I am able to taste them and create recipes for partners. Ethiopia Gedeb is one of my favorite coffees released so far this year, and let me tell you, it makes an incredible cold brew! I wanted to create something that would pair well with cold brew iced coffee, so I thought a nice and light quinoa salad would be perfect!
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Ethiopia Gedeb is one of the newer coffees at the Roastery, and will be hitting all Reserve stores in September. Have you ever had a coffee that you just couldn’t stop drinking? That is Ethiopia Gedeb for me. I have a doppio espresso of it every morning since I got it, and have been making small batches of cold brew to drink in the afternoon. It is one of those coffees that is just delightful any way you brew it.

Ethiopia Gedeb is complex cup, with honeysuckle aromas, and notes of apricot and ginger. Since this coffee has become part of my morning routine, I wanted to pair it with a quick and easy on the go snack. What better than a fruit rollup?… 

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