Recently I and my dude went on a trip to an island. To our dismay, we could not locate a Starbucks nearby. For my dude, filter coffee is the thing. Next comes Starbucks cappuccino which is close enough to the south Indian coffee that we make and something we consider for survival. Deciding to travel light we did not take any coffee items when we flew there. There was some X, Y, Z coffee available in the suite we stayed in. But we cannot compromise our standards to X, Y, Z when it comes to coffee; Can we? And we don't consider it as coffee if there is no milk....
The room had a coffee machine, naaah. The room had a microwave, Oh yes! We went to the Walmart/Safeway nearby, bought some milk, and searched for nestle instant coffee or any equivalents. We could only get a less intense local instant coffee brand. We came back to our room and as soon as we came back, heated the milk in the microwave, determined to make a coffee. Later we realized, we missed buying sugar; And the instant coffee was so light and less intense, that the coffee monster in my dude started surfacing up. My dude found a hazelnut spread in the items we bought from the general stores there and absent-mindedly he mixed the hazelnut spread in the coffee.
Voila!!! His face suddenly lit up like a rising sun :)
Though, am not a coffee person, I loved the one my dude made. It tasted somewhere between a hot chocolate and a coffee. He loved it; I loved it.:)
He happily made the same coffee recipe for the rest of our stay there.
And here I am silently making it our home back here and sipping it before he arrives.
The room had a coffee machine, naaah. The room had a microwave, Oh yes! We went to the Walmart/Safeway nearby, bought some milk, and searched for nestle instant coffee or any equivalents. We could only get a less intense local instant coffee brand. We came back to our room and as soon as we came back, heated the milk in the microwave, determined to make a coffee. Later we realized, we missed buying sugar; And the instant coffee was so light and less intense, that the coffee monster in my dude started surfacing up. My dude found a hazelnut spread in the items we bought from the general stores there and absent-mindedly he mixed the hazelnut spread in the coffee.
Voila!!! His face suddenly lit up like a rising sun :)
Though, am not a coffee person, I loved the one my dude made. It tasted somewhere between a hot chocolate and a coffee. He loved it; I loved it.:)
He happily made the same coffee recipe for the rest of our stay there.
And here I am silently making it our home back here and sipping it before he arrives.
Recipe :
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of boiled/warm milk
- 1 tsp of instant coffee powder
- 1 tsp of sugar or as needed(optional)
- 1.5 - 2 tsp of Nutella or any other hazelnut spread.
Instructions:
- Warm/boil the milk;
- Add sugar, coffee powder, and the hazelnut spread
- Stir, sip and enjoy :)
I am sure, kids will love it and this is healthy. Oh, C'mon hazelnut is healthy of course.
