Breaking the fast...all over the world

After a long night of digestion, a restful sleep and sugar-sweet dreams you will need a gorgeous, healthy breakfast.  The best way to start your morning off and to gain energy for the day is a decent meal. Skipping breakfast is said to be very unhealthy as you lose your energy for important things, puts you into greater risk of being overweight as well as losing joy because food makes people haaaaaaaaaaaaaaappy.

All over the world people start their day with a yummy breakfast but all those meals look different.

I'm sure everyone has an idea what an English breakfast is:

An English breakfast usually consists of bakes beans, sausages, bacon, scrambled eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes and toast. All this is washed back with a cup of black tea with milk.

I've never been in England, however, a friend of mine, who is from London, once made us a very delicious original English breakfast. When I was in Scotland the B&B I stayed at served the very same things. In addition, they offered haggis, which is a traditional Scottish dish, at the buffet.




In Hawaii the usual breakfast consists of fruits, bagels and cream cheese. Well, I'd call that a healthy start into the day! In Russia they eat oladi, which are Russian pancakes, with soured cream, honey, jam or berries. In Spain, they usually eat very little for breakfast, sometimes just a coffee. When I was in Barcelona we sometimes had magdalenas, which are sweet, little, lemony cupcakes (I made the experience that I don't like them, they are too sour and too sweet at the same time). Once I bought rolls  filled with ham and cheese which, in contrast, were really good.

A friend of mine was so kind as to tell me what they usually eat for breakfast in Egypt. She said, a traditional breakfast consisted of ful, which are cooked and mashed beans, falafel, sheep's milk cheese and eggs. Sweet alternatives are bread with halva, sweet syrup (they refer to it as "black honey") or sesame paste.

In Bosnia we eat a great amount of white bread, not only for breakfast but also for lunch and sinner. And snacks. We like to eat in Bosnia, that's a fact. To return to the topic: A breakfast normally consists of white bread with spicy sausages (sudjuk), cheese, ham. A sweet alternative would be kajmak (a creamy dairy product) or butter and jam.

Well, that sounds delicious, doesn't it? Oh boy, I'm pretty hungry now writing about food all the time makes one's tummy rumble!