Recipe #32: instant decaf lowbrow fake café au lait
Apparently this is similar to a coffee beverage that was trendy during the pandemic, providing comfort and joy to many folks during a dark time. I, being tremendously untrendy, was unaware of this. I think of this recipe as the café au lait introduced to me in 1991 in Nice, France, by my Canadian friend who was living there as a poor exchange student. She drank the caffeinated version of this daily with her baguette and croissants . I thought she was wonderfully sophisticated and chic, and fully trusted her knowledge of all things French. Take all of this with a grain of sel , however, as my friend, although fluent in French and living La vie française, also confessed to me that she missed Tim Hortons coffee. Insert le eye roll. Ingredients: Directions: Pour some whole milk into a cup of choice. I am using a homemade pottery café au lait cup: Microwave on high for about 2 minutes, so that the milk is steaming hot: Add a teaspoon or so of sugar and about two teasp...