Coffees around the world

Before I was a coffee junkie, I had never imagined that there would be an abundant ways of expressing the love of coffee with addictions such as adding cheese, egg, lemons or coal to my delicious cup of Joe. The most adventurous thing for me, was to try a new coffee that magically appeared on the shelves of my nearest grocery store. Gradually, I moved on to the exotic world of beans from Africa, Italy, Colombia and many more that were available to me through the higher end of coffee shops. Little did I know, that soon I would be traveling my way through certain parts of the world through a small cup. Here I have found a few very interesting ways of spicing up the way I wake up. (There are MANY more recipes out there but here are a few that I've immensely enjoyed).

1. Kaffeost (Finland)

This is a highly unusual way of preparing coffee in America but it is a typical and normal way of drinking it in northern Sweden and Finland and among the Sami people of Lapland. This requires some cheese called leipäjuusto , also called “bread cheese” or Finnish squeaky cheese.

Scotch faves

 I can't help myself. In my defense, I did say that I was a bit obsessed with scottish food. Can't wait to try these recipes out.

Scotch Eggs

3 medium eggs

1 onion

250g (1 cup) portabello mushrooms

30g (1 oz) panko breadcrumbs

salt and pepper

Boil 2 eggs for about 5 mins. or until they are soft in the middle. Take them out and let them cool. Add the onion and mushrooms together in a pan and fry in a bit of oil. Transfer to a bowl when cooked and let them cool down. Add the remaining egg to the mushrooms and mix together. Roll the boiled eggs in plain flour, then coat each one with the mushroom mixture. Roll them in a bit of flour and breadcrumbs. Heat oil in a pan and fry them until gold and crispy. Cut them in half and serve.

Scottish Full Breakfast

Scottish breakfasts looks so hardy and sturdy as if it could literary be your one meal for the entire day because its a huge plate. The average person would not eat this every morning but it would definitely be very tempting. The traditional Scottish full breakfast would include grilled tomatoes, a boiled egg, baked beans, potato scone (tatties scones), mushrooms, back bacon , black pudding (pork blood, with pork fat or beef suet, and a cereal, usually oatmeal, oat groats or barley groats, and spices), link sausage, buttered toast, and some add oatcakes. For vegetarians, we would have to substitute half the plate with vegan friendly "meats", like the recipes below.