When there is no sun outside, you can make your own...

that has gone in my favourites ~ it will make me smile everytime i see it! BRILLIANT kat!

do you have a coffee machine?

oh, a nice one! how did you do that Katarina?
P.S. no sun in the weather forecast till Thursday here... but they usually are getting it wrong ;-) (hope it will be sooner;)

Sticki@yes, I have coffee machine, one for espresso and capuccino and one for filtered coffee (which is the healthiest coffee, as studies showed). But this one I had at Coffee and Co.

Kassy@this "sun" effect was done by cinnamon powder.

I think you would need the machine to make the milk frothy enough to hold the pattern?
its very good.

Yes, I do it with machine, which has separate pipe for making milk for capuccino.

very smart!

But to be honest, I do not make coffee at home so often. Only filtered coffee in the morning. And you? Do you drink coffee or tea?

both! and occasionally hot chocolate and sometimes herbal tea ~ i currently have liquorice!

i dont have a coffee machine though

Be careful, Sticki. Liquorice is very often added to British teas, as I noticed in Marks and Spencer. But it can cause retention of fluids and thus worsen hypertension. It is not so innocent...I love thyme tea, from herbs I sometimes pick by myself in June. They are aromatic and very good with honey. From coffees I use at home Lavazza (Italian one) and then different sorts of Columbia coffee, that one is really very good and strong. I am not fond of hot chocolate.

oh, ok, thanks kat ~ i only have one a day at most ~ and its because i like the taste

I am sorry to spoil that good taste :) I am just physician by original profession :)

Does that mean physicians dont like chocolate either?

No, I mean I always see food stuff as a health related product. I drank hot chocolate all my youth, evening by evening, I cannot see it so often anymore.

some hot chocolate is really good ~ some is just flavouring!

i think i only had water as a child!

No, we drank real Dutch hot cocoa. Nowadays they sell chemical thick and very sweet substance.

real dutch ~ i bet that was good,

we used to have lovely dutch chocolates ~ they were in the shape, almost of coins? ~ a disk with a raised edge

We had them, too!!! :) It was milk chocolate!

it was, i forget the name

i like plain chocolate best though [but i dont eat very much of it]

I loved special sort of milk (made from egg white, vanilla and milk) which we called "birds´ milk" and my grandmother used to make it. It had large, prominent fluffies of mousse floating on it. It was the best dessert in the world, nothing compared to that...

oh is that floating islands?

Love it.........

Floating islands?

its a pudding ~ sounds like what you were describing?

http://www.marthastewart.com/913025/how-make-floating-islands-dessert

Yes, so what we call "birds´s milk" is "floating islands" in English:)) Fatastic dessert, isn´t it? I didn´t eat it for years.........................

i have never made it but it comes highly recommended on tv cookery programs ~ i might have a go!

Will you invite me on Sunday afternoon? ;-)

If i make it then of course! but it wont be this sunday!

Next then? ;-)

I just wonder now, what Milky loves: if my cup of coffee or floating islands? :)

could be........?

Milky should love a milky drink?

;-)

That one will be easy for you to taste it Sticki. I mean the 'bird's milk. It's available here in Polish stores. Can get you one, lol.

thanks kasy, i might try making it ??

nice katarina,

that would be nice. :)
I've checked the images - that's something different from what Katarina was saying. let me see if I can find you some

here it is how it looks like:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=ptasie+mleczko+uk&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42261806,d.d2k&biw=1440&bih=785&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=wAsaUZuGBYWa1AWzxYGwDg#imgrc=YvP_2YHU3GzBkM%3A%3BQ7u86op7_I2IpM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fserini.lh.pl%252Fgenerator%252Fedytor%252Fuploads%252Ffiles%252F12851668964262-big.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.ebay.co.uk%252Fitm%252F181039084767%3B468%3B468

sorry kasy, i cant make the link work

do you mean like this:
http://www.squidoo.com/deliciousdessert

grrr - those links are horrible...
just google: ptasie mleczko e.wedel and go to images.

it looks like a chocolate bar with a frothy light centre?

I think it is the good way to describe it;) and the taste is just heavenly. Probably you wouldn't expect something like that from something looking so simple, lol.

sounds very good ~ i was expecting a drink??

haha - I know:) by the sound of it:)

It is interesting, Kasy, that you have a different dessert under the very same name as we have. But-in Slovakia "birds´milk" means exactly what Sticki said. And here you have receipt by photo and by word. Hope, the link will work:
http://varecha.pravda.sk/recepty/vtacie-mlieko-fotorecept/8790-recept.html