{"id":50,"date":"2007-08-10T10:23:30","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T00:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2007-08-10T15:09:34","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T05:09:34","slug":"home-espresso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/home-espresso\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Espresso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"border: 1pt none ; margin: 1px; float: right; padding-right: 5px\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/p1000549.JPG\" title=\"freshly extracted espresso\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/p1000549.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"p1000549.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We bought an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascaso.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ascasso<\/a> Dream a few weeks ago. It was a bit of an impulse buy, although we&#8217;ve been pondering getting an espresso machine for some time. It&#8217;s just so sexy we couldn&#8217;t resist.  I knew making espresso wouldn&#8217;t be easy, we&#8217;ve been practicing over the last few weeks and just recently starting to get good at it. Chika made a great cup this morning! Good fresh beans seem to be one of the critical factors. Our favorite at the moment is the house blend from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forsythcoffee.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forsyth&#8217;s<\/a> in Naremburn.  Another discovery was that our cheapy grinder just wouldn&#8217;t cut it.  I splurged on a Rancilio Rocky.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/p1000552.JPG\" title=\"Chika frothing the milk\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/p1000552.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"p1000552.JPG\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/p1000548.JPG\" title=\"close-up showing the crema\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/p1000548.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"p1000548.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We bought an Ascasso Dream a few weeks ago. It was a bit of an impulse buy, although we&#8217;ve been pondering getting an espresso machine for some time. It&#8217;s just so sexy we couldn&#8217;t resist. I knew making espresso wouldn&#8217;t be easy, we&#8217;ve been practicing over the last few weeks and just recently starting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink","category-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}