Coffee and dates, who knew?

I like dates a lot (the fruit, obviously, otherwise I would have said "I like going on ..."). My favorite is a big plump juicy medjool. They are great solo, in salads, in baked goods. They are a super healthy sweetner. And given how sweet they are, the have fewer calories than you might expect. Where else could I use them, especially as Costco burdened me with 2 lbs of medjools?

Coffee!

They have a gentle earthiness along with a complex sugar taste which goes great with black coffee. And hence my culinary discovery. Remember you read it here first. Except that it was terrible. So terrible, I had to dump the cup.