
If we’re feeling ambitious, we juice a couple oranges. We use these minutes to pull out all the fruit left in the fridge and cut it up fanning it out on a platter makes us feel fancy, and not like it’s the dregs that were left at the bottom of the produce drawer. And then I mix up a simple wholegrain soda bread but bake it as scones, so it can be done in 15 minutes. Hard-boil several eggs and plunge them in very ice water so they’re not warm-centered (shudder) by the time we sit down.


Every Saturday morning, which is blissfully later each year that my children have grown old enough to fend for themselves for a couple hours, we stumble out of bed and do these exact things in this exact order: Make Americanos in the Moka pot.
