What your coffee says about you.

It’s Thursday and it’s still a bit gloomy here in good ol’ Salisbury. It’s also just a normal day in the life of me — bottomless coffees, work, eat, work, sleep. Gosh, I’m overwhelmingly exciting aren’t I?

So we are all aware with my obsession with coffee right {hence the bottomless coffees added into my daily routine}? We live in such a fast paced world and if you don’t drink coffee at all, hats off to you. I truly don’t know how you function. I am constantly all over the place — checking my phone, scrolling through tabs on my computer, working on projects at work, talking with fellow employees, meetings with the boss, going to the gym & so much more.

This post is going to be dedicated to all you coffee drinkers out there and what your go-to coffee says about you.

(FYI: these descriptions are from the internet not my own personal descriptions)

I am definitely either an Espresso coffee drinker or a Coffee to-go coffee drinker.

If I have time to sit down and enjoy my coffee, I get dark roast and drink it black. I’m so hard core, I know. So that makes me friendly and adaptive. However, most of the time I take my coffee on the go, which makes me serious and focused. I can agree with those I suppose!

Which coffee do you drink?
Does your coffee match with it’s description?

Peanut butter jelly time

It’s one of those days where I have been staring at my computer and can’t decide what to talk about. I had a busy day yesterday with spending all afternoon at the gym {working unfortunately} and then driving to Ocean City again for another promo. These promo events are so much fun and even better because I get to do them with one of my best friends. Check out my Instagram to see us at Sunset Grille.

So ya know, since my brain isn’t working today for some reason and I am not going to think of anything clever in the next 2 hours before I pass out, I am going to share a breakfast recipe that I found. It reminded me so much of Kyle that I just had to save it. He is obsessed {and I mean obsessed} with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. It’s kind weird actually that he can sit and eat 3 or 4 in a row. Since he cooks me dinner every night {having my own personal chef is pretty sweet}, I usually try to get up and bake/prepare/cook him some kind of breakfast in the morning. Including a large, dark roast coffee of course. This is the perfect recipe that combines his love for peanut butter and jelly and my {somewhat} decent abilities of putting together the perfect breakfast.

This recipe comes from Heather!

Recipe for Peanut Butter and Jelly Scones

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp salt
• 8 Tbs butter, cold and cut into 1” pieces
• ½ cup peanut butter
• 1/3 cup cold cream
• 1 egg
• Flour for rolling out the dough
• Jam or Jelly of your choice
• 2 tsp sugar

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a sheet pan with a silpat or a sheet of parchment paper.
2. In the bowl of a food processor, combine the dry ingredients.
3. Add the butter to the food processor and pulse until you have a coarse crumb.
4. In a separate bowl, whisk together the peanut butter, egg and cream until smooth.
5. Add the peanut butter mixture to the dry ingredients and pulse until everything comes together in a dough.
6. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured countertop, and gently roll out into a rectangle, about 1” thick.
7. Use a biscuit cutter or jam jar to cut out circles as large as you like. Re-roll the scraps so that you use all of the dough.
8. Place the scones onto the prepared sheet pan, leaving space in between them, as they spread.
9. Make an indentation into the tops of the scones, and then place ½-1 tsp of jam in the indentation.
10. Sprinkle the edges of the scones with granulated sugar.
11. Bake the scones for 18-20 minutes or until firm and golden and the jam has baked into the scones.
12. Let cool slightly and serve warm or at room temperature,

Number of servings: 8

{Credit to Heather for the pictures and recipe!} Thank you for this!

Doesn’t that look so good?! If you end up trying it let me know how it turns out. I can’t wait to surprise him with these! Now hopefully I will wake up tomorrow with some great ideas on what to talk about next, but until then — have a good evening!

PS. Kyle and I are about to watch The Dark Knight Rises and drink some delicious mix drinks. Perfect Friday night in my book!

Viva espresso

Who has been to Viva espresso in Salisbury, MD? It is without a doubt one of my new favorite places to be. Kyle and I are living and working in Salisbury all summer and most people know that it is a ghost town when school is not in session. Ocean City is about 30 minutes away but after a long day of work and the gym we just want to relax on the couch and not have to worry about driving anywhere. It’s been about a month since the semester ended in May and we are starting to get tired of spending so much time in or near our apartment. One morning we decided to go get coffee and chat a little bit before we hit the gym. Instead of going to Starbucks like most people do, we decided to check out a new place.

I was pleasantly surprised walking into Viva espresso. The atmosphere is so mellow, the colors complement each other so well, and the seating/table set up is just perfect. I ordered the Mocha Latté (with an extra shot of expresso). What can I say, I love caffeine! Kyle ordered a regular black coffee with like 4 shots of Espresso (he’s crazy!). We were going right to the gym after the coffee shop so we brought our own Clif Bars to eat while we sipped on our delicious coffees. I can’t wait to start trying their breakfast selections. They had so many pastries displayed by the register it was very difficult to pass up! Especially this cinnamon bun that I had my eye on. Definitely going to have to try one soon! We both decided this was our new favorite place to go to just relax and read a book, look over articles in the newspaper, or even study for a test. I can’t wait to go back!

Check it out!

Where is your favorite place to go to relax and drink a coffee?