My cookbook, and the blog subsequently, have been gathering a little dust these last two weeks, so I decided to kick start my weekend with a new recipe, perhaps the easiest one of the in Extending the Table. This morning I started the day as I usually do, with coffee in the kitchen as I fed the boys, but the Cafe con Canela, Mexican Coffee, was a sweet infusion of spice to get me back on track.
I've been bogged down at work lately. The end of the first trimester and the start of the second for the school year wiped me out. The extra grading, intensive teaching days, and new student song and dance leave me falling back on the frozen meals I prepared back in August when I was fresh and rested from a long vacation. And, of course, the ever-so-tempting ease of a prepackaged meal that needs only heat and serve.
So my morning coffee seeped with a little sugar and a cinnamon stick jolts me out of the rut today. It usually doesn't take much to alter the well-tread courses we fall into on occasion. We need the comfort and routine and the falling asleep on the couch of those ruts just for survival's sake. But then we shake off the cobwebs, open the spice drawer, and re-imagine the day as we know it.
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