How to dye Easter eggs naturally

Ingredients:

• 10 eggs
• onion peel from 500 grams of red onions for a red brick color
• 250 grams of frozen spinach for a dark green
• 2 spoons with turmeric for yellow
• half of a red cabbage for blue
• vinegar
• a few spoons with sunflower oil

We used 2- 4 eggs for each color. First of all, wash the eggs with liquid dish soap.

In a pot, add the onion peel, the eggs, water just to cover them and 2 spoons with vinegar. Let the pot boil at slow fire for 10 minutes.

Leave the eggs in the pot for 3-4 hours and you will have a really nice color.

In another pot, add the chopped cabbage, the eggs, water just to cover them and 2 spoons with vinegar.
Let it boil for 10 minutes then leave them in the pot for 3-4 hours.


In another pot, add the eggs, 2 spoons with curcuma,  water to cover the eggs and 2 spoons with vinegar. Boil at slow fire for 10 minutes then let them sit for a few hours.

Same process with the spinach, although from our experiences it doesn´t worth the trouble.

When the eggs have the color you desire, take them out on a paper napkin and let them dry.

Put some sunfower oil on a paper towel and rub the eggs with it. The eggs will become shiny :)

Keep the eggs in the fridge until you eat them.Enjoy!

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Trip to Crema, Italy

Pretty crowded during the weekend when we visited. Only 40 km away from Milan, so easily reachable in case you want to get away from the big city.

Trip to Gouffre de Cabrespine, France

Really small, but it has its charm. Lovely stories told by the guide. It´s a must if you are in the area. Inside, you are allowed to take as many photos as you like :) .

Hotel review - Domaine de Crevatinas B&B, France

A disaster! It was a completely mess. We didn't want to stay for breakfast.
In the room smelled like mold and it was really humid.

The bathroom needed real cleaning. I think it´s not something that the owners do often.
There was no soap in the bathroom.

The owners were not even at home when we arrived. They advised the other guests to show us our room.

If we didn't arrive so late, we wouldn't have stayed during the night, although the room was already payed.


It was one of our worst stays in France. Until this, we liked to try the B&B because we had some nice experiences.  

Homemade blackberries ice cream

Ingredients:

• 300 grams of fresh cream
• 150 grams of yogurt
• 150 grams of blackberries
• 100 grams of sugar

Clean the blackberries and put the in a pot.

Add the sugar and let them simmer at slow fire for 10 minutes.

Strain the composition and put it aside to cool.

Meanwhile whip the fresh cream until it makes stiff picks .
Add the yogurt and mix to incorporate it.

Add the cooled blackberry juice over the fresh cream/yogurt and mix.
Put the ice cream in the freezer for a few hours before serving it.

Enjoy!

Nice bicycle in Tropea, Italy

They combined the beauty and the practical aspect of it.

Eating out - Auberge Le Promontoire, Talmont sur Gironde, France

The restaurant was almost full in low-season. I don´t want to imagine how is it during the high season here.

And it wasn´t something out of the ordinary compared with other places we ate. Eadible food, that's all.

Trip to Rochefort, France

Apparently not much to see here, except the Hermione ship and some other museums.

Cauliflower gnocchi with gorgonzola cheese - recipe with step-by-step photos

Ingredients for 3 servings:

• 150 grams of peeled potatoes
• 150 grams of cauliflower
• 90 grams of flour
• 50 grams of gorgonzola cheese
• 50 grams of speck
• 30 grams of butter
• 1 clove of garlic
• a few leaves of basil
• pepper
• salt

Peal the potatoes, cut them in small cubes and boil them in water with salt until tender.

In another pot boil the cauliflower.

When ready mash the potatoes. Add the cauliflower and mash it.
 

Add the flour and the pepper and mix until everything is well incorporated.

Make little gnocchi from the composition and boil them for a few minutes in a pot with boiling water.

When ready take them out and strain them.

Melt the butter in a frying pan.

Add the crushed garlic and the chopped speck and let them fry for a minute or two.

Add the Gorgonzola cheese and, when melted, add the gnocchi.

Let them cook for a few minutes at slow fire.

You can serve it with some basil leafs and pepper. Serve hot!

Enjoy!

The original recipe can be found here

Hotel review - Best Western Plus Hotel am Vitalpark, Heilbad Heiligenstadt, Germany,

Nice, big room with comfortable bed.

Free WiFi and free parking places.

Good breakfast.

Cute dog in Hann Münden, Germany

Oh, look at him. He is soooo cute!

Trip to Senglea (Città Invicta), Malta

The city is just across Valetta on the other side of the golf. There is an area known as " The three cities". Not so many tourists there that day.


You can reach the area by bus, as we did, or by boat.