Chock full o'Pine Nuts

Earlier this week I finally busted open my bag of piñon coffee that I bought in Albuquerque.

It was amongst the few edibles and didn't come red, green, and Xmas. A real treat from the Southwest, it's coffee flavored with piñon, a.k.a. - pine nut. But not just any old pine nut. This stuff has New Mexican terrior as the nuts are from the Colorado Pinyon Pine (Pinus edulis), a pine native to the American Southwest and northern Mexico.

I brewed some up and took my first taste...

On the first couple sips the buttery flavor came through but I found that my tongue got used to it leaving the nuttiness to mingle with the coffeeness for the rest of the cup. It was delicious.