Beverly Hills 90210 and Cafe Au Lait

 

        

     I’ve been going through quite a nostalgic period of my life right now, and because of that I’m revisiting movies and music from my childhood. One of the shows I was totally committed to in the early nineties was Beverly Hills 90210. I watched it from the beginning all the way up to season 6. I was a big fan back then and I’m really enjoying the rewatch.

     On one of the episodes, Kelly, Donna, and Brenda are in a coffee house on a comedy night- or it’s a coffee house/comedyclub I’m not completely sure- and Donna orders a cafe au lait. I was surprised that’s not something I see being ordered at coffee shops in current times, and I was interested in what exactly it was. I’ve worked in cafes and I’ve been a coffee drinker for a really long time and I think I’ve heard of it but I didn’t know what went into it or how to actually make one. So…I went online and I was researching it and I made one because I was very curious. 

     The cafe au lait has become a new morning routine with me, I really enjoy the creaminess and balance of the flavor. It Reminds me of cappuccino yet it’s so much simpler to make and that works well for me since I don’t have an espresso machine. 

     It’s just so easy, just coffee and milk. It’s a half a cup of coffee and the rest is warmed milk. I’ve heard that you could steam the milk but it seems pretty controversial on whether or not you can steam the milk in a cafe au lait or if that makes it something else,  but I’ll tell you the way I make it at home.

     First, I use a big gigantic coffee mug so I can still get a good amount of coffee in this drink. Next, I microwave milk for about a minute so I’m careful not to scald it … just to get it warm. While the milk is warming up I pour half a cup of strong coffee and add a teaspoon of sweetener to this. Then I add the warm warm milk on top of it and I give it a stir and I put a little tiny bit of cinnamon on top more for the aroma more than the flavor of it. 

     This has become just the coziest little morning ritual for me and I just it kind of feels like I’m spoiling myself with something really simple and affordable and accessible to me so this is my new thing and has replaced my morning iced coffees… at least for now. 

     

     Anyways, That’s how I do so I thought I would share with you guys. It’s just a little something interesting and I haven’t really been sharing a lot lately and it’s just been a really busy year. We had a graduation we had a wildfire. I don’t really know what I’ve been doing with my time, but I feel like I’ve just been playing catch up all year. But here I am now, stopping in, and hopefully I will be adding more soon. 

Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite Review

Wow! This book is incredible. I am immediately adding this to my top ten favorite books list. 

So let me just start by saying that I tried to read this book as a teenager in the nineties and I just could not get through it. This book is vulgar and obscene and would probably offend a large portion of society. It’s no wonder that as a young woman who was always looking for the beauty in everything I found this book a little too extreme for my liking. 

Now, as a woman in her forties,  I found it a little more tolerable to read…. I actually really liked it. I thought the story was so interesting and nostalgic. There was not a character that I came across in this story that I did not instantly want to know more about. The author’s descriptions and details of the club scene and the gothic club kids really took me back to an era long ago. I remembered so many of these little details as I read this book and wondered how many of these things I had encountered because this book existed first and was later copied by the people and places I spent my time with in those days. 

There are some definite areas of the book that I think were put in for shock value and I recognized them and accepted them as that but overall this book was just so entrancing. I could not wait to see the date of every character and was not disappointed by the ending. I wish the author had made a sequel but that just wasn’t in the cards for this particular novel. 

Love Love Love .