The post title is misleading because I'm not actually going to share with you all the things that went wrong with our first family coffee ceremony. I would like to retain some of my dignity and that would be close to impossible if I shared with you all of the idiocy involved.
This morning Ben, Aiden and I tried to do a coffee ceremony. For those of you who don't know, coffee ceremonies shouldn't take 2 1/2 hours to do. For reasons too numerous to list ours took that long. Ours also ended in me yelling "forget it!" and putting the last of the coffee beans in a grinder and brewing them in our Electric Coffee Pot. Uhhhh! I know how to do a ceremony, I sat through dozens of them during my month in Ethiopia. Ben knows how to do a coffee ceremony. He's only been witnessing them for the last nine years of his life! Between our 9 years and 1 month of experience you'd think we could wing this thing..... Our problem was that we didn't have charcoal or lighter fluid. I just had regular wood chips and paper as my starter. You'd think this would work; for some (many) reason(s) it didn't. We eventually got it hot enough to roast our beans but couldn't keep enough wood in the burner to get the water to boil. Ben kept reminding me that they use "gas" on it in Ethiopia. He probably thought I was a major idiot. Here are pictures of our ceremony before it went terribly wrong.
Me roasting coffee beans in my pajamas :)
Ben roasting beans in his pajamas!
My traditional coffee pot and cups
Thank you Mahi and Salsawi for hooking me up with my Traditional Coffee Ceremony gear. I am gonna get this down eventually and make you guys proud!!
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