posted 1 month ago
Good, old skool, turkish coffee (although when in Greece you need to call that one greek coffee if you know what's good for you :-D :-D ) - that's the way coffee is traditionally done here in Balkans region.
All you need is a pot, a teaspoon, some heat source, can be a camp fire also, and a cup to drink from it, basically you can make it anywhere you find yourself. No fancy (and not so fancy) equipment needeed. Ingredients - grinded coffee, sugar (optional) and water. As simple as that. Although with many existing variations on how to make turkish coffee properly, and often heated discussions which way is the best, it may seem complicated to uninitiated :-).
My prefered way is to add sugar in the beginning and to add coffee when the water starts to boil. Turn the heat down, add coffee, remove from the heat to mix it in the water, put back on low heat for a slow simmer (for how long depends on who will be drinking it), remove from the heat and slowly add some cold water on top (tablespoon more or or less) that will pull the grounds to the bottom. Pour coffee in the cup, sit back and enjoy.
Btw. I've learnd to prepare it long before I started to drink it, as a youngest child I had the daily task to prepare it after lunch.
It helps to have specific pots for coffee making, but if needed you can make it in various pots, narrow with more depth are better (grounds can more easily stay on the bottom when pouring it in the cups). As a regular user, off course I (we) have specific pots, in several different sizes.
Few posts above Khalid did a nice description of one of the variations how to make it.
When outside, meeting with friends or just taking some chill time for myself, it's short espresso in one of the many caffe bars you can find around here.
Diverse seeds. Aromatic and medicinal herbs. And making stuff from it. Communicating with animals and plants. Stubbornly living by my own rules. Well, most of the time.
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