Showing posts with label Drink. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drink. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

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.