Coffee As A Lifestyle

I woke up in the middle of the night last night and suddenly a blog post was running through my head.  Every sentence was written perfectly.  It was awesome.  And today I've totally forgotten what the post was even about.

So.....this post may involve a rant.

A true Ukrainian style rant usually involves copious amounts of coffee and at least one friend if not more.

So here is my friend Lori visiting me in Kyiv at Coffee Life.  Because, coffee "as a life style" is a wonderful thing.  Here you can see she is checking out the menu where we figured out that a caffe Macchiato is a step up in the world from a plain, regular, cappuccino. 

She has a big smile on her face for a reason.  More caffeine.  We are truly moving up on the scale of European coffee drinkers.

So what was I going to rant about?

I forgot.

Turkish Delights

When you're me and you bring back gifts for your friends, eventually they will go on a trip and bring back a gift for you! My friend recently returned from Turkey and brought me a gift of this box of candy and turkish coffee!

The coffee is very fine and powdery so I thought I should make it in my turkish coffee pot! You just add the water and coffee and heat until it just starts to boil.

I opened the box and found these little white cotton ball looking things laying side by side inside of it.

Okay, the coffee was ready so I then poured it into a little tiny Ukrainian coffee cup.

Does this look like it's going to be tasty or what?

The candy is very much like cotton candy and is sugar spun into these little balls. The coffee? It was heavenly!