Northwest Cavegirls

Meant to take a photo of the table in the staffroom today and forgot, too worried about how the food was going down to think of capturing the moment.

I’ll do better tomorrow

Here are my meals for today.

Breakfast:

Paleo Porridge, fresh blueberries on top and coffee. Click here for the recipe for porridge.

Please note that I used 2 cups of raw walnuts and 1 cup raw almonds in my porridge this week. I love this stuff. I can honestly say that I could have skipped lunch and made it until afternoon recess (2pm) before realizing I’d only had a banana since breakfast. 

Lunch:

Drank my iced coffee and ate a banana at lunchtime. Enjoyed my bar at afternoon recess. The orange is still in my bag. Check out these coffees from PCC. They are called Toddys and super good!

Cold brew or cold press refers to the process of steeping coffee grounds in room temperature or cold water for an extended period. It is also sometimes referred to as Toddy coffee which is a trademarked cold brewing system. Beans should be ground coarse (as one would grind for French press or percolator style brewing methods). Felt filters are used in the Toddy system.

The cold-press process requires grinding: coarse-ground beans are soaked in water for a prolonged period of time, usually 12 hours or more. The water is normally kept at room temperature, but chilled water can also be used. The grounds must be filtered out of the water after they have been steeped using a paper coffee filter, a fine metal sieve, or a French press. The result is a coffee concentrate that is often diluted with water or milk, and can be served hot,over ice, or blended with ice and other ingredients such as chocolate.

Cold brewed coffee naturally seems sweeter due to its lower acidity. Because the coffee beans in cold-press coffee never come into contact with heated water, the process of leaching flavor from the beans produces a different chemical profile than conventional brewing methods.^[1]

Cold brew coffee is not to be confused with iced coffee, which refers to coffee that is brewed hot and then chilled by pouring over or adding ice.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_brew

Dinner:

We had a ton of meat left and hubby was home a little early so we grilled. Our new house has natural gas plumbed outside for the BBQ and the BBQ is just outside from our dining room and kitchen so I foresee much grilling in my future Love well BBQ’d food

Tomorrow’s staffroom paleo treat will be Paleo Pumpkin Bread with chocolate chips and raisins.

It was good and bad that there were paleo treats in the staffroom. Good because I COULD eat the treats in the staffroom and bad because I could EAT the treats in the staffroom