Vietnamese Iced Coffee

Too hot out for coffee? No. It's never too hot outside for coffee. The pleasures of coffee are not to be denied during the summer months.

My husband has been gone for the past two weeks. Two weeks that have managed heat indexes over one hundred. I still maintained my diet of a pot of coffee a day, black with no milk or sugar. Once at the doctor’s office I was asked ‘how many cups of coffee do you drink a day’. My response that coffee cups vary in size was not received well. My next answer was scrutinized. I maintain that it takes a pot to keep up with a husky (high energy dog) and a three year old.

A day early, my guy phoned to say he was flying a regional jet home. Airplane space is small on a commercial flight. It is microscopic in a regional jet. At five and a half feet tall, I barely fit. For my husband who is just under a foot taller, it is like trying to cram an elephant into the clown car. The air vents are like a soft fart being blown in your face for two hours as the air circulates a potpourri of body odors from all the passengers. After a flight like that and working so hard to give his family a nice life, I prepared him a treat. One I was sure he had forgotten about, and he had.

Vietnamese Iced Coffee

• Mug of strong black coffee
  (I’ve used a French press and an espresso machine with excellent results)
• 2-4 tablespoons sweetened condensed milk
• Ice (make ice cubes from brewed coffee to prevent your drink from getting watered down, or use a freezer cup)

 Sadly this is not dairy free, but I remember how delicious it is on a hot summer day.