That Kind of Morning — Coffee's Hot, Honey's Out, the Almond Cream Is Open
That kind of morning is a breakfast you decide to have: coffee made properly, a generous spoonful of almond cream stirred into yogurt with berries, a piece of good toast, and no rush. Tutto Sicilia's Sicilian Almond Cream is made with Pizzuta d'Avola almonds from the hills above Avola, in Sicily.
There is a particular quality of morning that I spend most of the week trying to get back to.
I had it once in Sicily — a small hotel in Taormina, breakfast on the terrace, the sea visible from the table and the light already warm at eight in the morning and no particular reason to be anywhere. Coffee that came in a small cup and was drunk slowly. Pastry. Something with almonds that I ate three of without noticing.
That morning. That's the one.
I can't recreate the terrace. I can't recreate Taormina. But I've started trying to recreate the quality of it — the unhurriedness, the willingness to sit at a table with coffee and something good and not treat it as fuel before the day begins.
Almond cream for breakfast
Almond cream is part of this for me now. Over yogurt, a generous spoonful stirred in with some berries and a piece of good toast. Coffee made properly, drunk while standing in the kitchen for a minute before sitting down, because the transition matters.
The Pizzuta d'Avola almond
The Pizzuta d'Avola almond — from the hills above Avola, where the almond trees bloom in winter, first of everything, when everything else is still sleeping — has a flavor that does something specific in the morning. It's not quite sweet. It's deep and clean and slightly floral in a way that pairs with coffee in a way I can't fully explain except that it works.
Slowing down isn't a lifestyle philosophy. It's a decision you make before 9am, or you don't make it at all.
Coffee's hot. The almond cream is out. The morning is that kind of morning if you decide it is.
Make it a slow breakfast with Unhurried Eggs & Toast, and read Just a Tuesday for almond cream at the dinner table.
Questions about almond cream at breakfast
How do you eat almond cream for breakfast?
Stir a generous spoonful into yogurt with berries, and have it with a piece of good toast and coffee.
Where do Pizzuta d'Avola almonds grow?
In the hills above Avola, in Sicily, where the almond trees bloom in winter.
What does Sicilian almond cream taste like?
Not quite sweet: deep, clean and slightly floral, and it pairs well with coffee.
Some things don't translate. They just live in you.
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