Coffee Room Concoctions

My coffee addiction steadily growing to an even 4-5 cups a day, many of them consumed while at work, I have tried a good number of the different coffee options available to me at the office. We use a Keurig One Cup Coffee machine, though nothing as state of the art looking as the one featured on the website. Ours must be something out of the Keurig dark ages, but it's not the coffee maker I take offense too. It's the depressing quality of the grounds, which come in a "K-cup", that we store in the office for who knows how long. I'm sorry, but the grounds I have at home are not as good as fresh ground, but the ones at work are a far far cry from being even recently ground.

So I've turned to creativity. Because whenever you think of brilliance in the all things culinary, you think of Caitlin, obvi. No really, I'm quite proud of myself. Having decided that the best variety of K-cup (is anyone else offended just by the name?) is the "Mocha Java", I set off to the coffee room to find out what sort of communal food there could possibly spice it up. Quickly vetoing all artificial sweeteners (let's give a decisive boo to after-tastes), and tired of the stale "sugar and dry creamer" routine, I decided to dig around for something a bit more unique. Every now and then cheese shows up on the counter, but even I am not crazy enough about cheese to add it to coffee. I was eventually victorious with the only other semi-communal food in the office: hot chocolate packs! The kind with the mini-marshmallows. It adds a creamy/sweet taste for me so I don't need to go for the wretched powdered creamer, and covers the stale taste of the coffee with it's rich chocolatey goodness. And I don't even know how to cook... My confidence may be boosted enough to emerge from the world of canned goods and actually try to cook meat!