The Healthy Elephant

Tuesday's are typically my day off, except this Tuesday I decided to work from home. Anne and Kelly are coming back from Thailand this week and I wanted to make sure that I had all my projects in order to show them, especially all the customs and shipping information. I put together a binder for Anne to show her all the research that I had gathered. I put the information in order and labeled all sections to make it easier to refer back to.

I mentioned before that one of the jobs was to summarize the "Importing Basics" document. I spent the entire day reading the 211 page document and summarizing each section so Anne could understand the basis of importing internationally. I've read the document a couple times now, but if you asked me a question about importing I probably still wouldn't know (which is why I've been trying different memory exercises). Anyway, I've managed to summarize that entire into only 9 pages!! You can hold your applause=) Hopefully, Anne will find it quite useful as we start to develop and start importing for the wholesale line.

Meanwhile, as I was summarizing and putting the binder together, I thought I would try and make this coffee drink I like. It's called the, Healthy Elephant, and is from a local coffee shop here in Broad Ripple. The drink is my absolutely favorite, but….kind of pricey. I thought maybe if I could just make it at home, then I could save about 10 bones each week.

So, the other day and Trader Joe's I bought the only ingredient that I didn't have at the house to make the drink, almond milk. In the drink there is almond milk, espresso, cocoa powder, honey and peanut butter. I thought it would be pretty easy to make, but not being as savvy as a barista as I thought…. it didn't turn out so well. The milk to coffee to ice ratio was a little off. I'm bound to try and make it again--I know I'm close to the real thing! I'll keep you updated on the second trial.