Eating out - Restaurant Macallè Sicilian Bistrot, Ortigia Syracuse

Looks nice and tasty, right? Wrong! The pasta were the ones you can buy it in the supermarkets and the same goes for the tomato sauce.

Then the main course was a joke. If you order only this, you will probably starve.

The prices are really high and this 2-course menu was close to 100 euro

Trip to Bonneval, France

Not much to see.

Turkish delight rolls - recipe with step-by-step photos

Ingredients for 50-55 rolls:

• 250 grams of flour
• 100 grams of Turkish delight
• 100 grams of butter
• 50 grams of powdered sugar
• 50 millilitres of sparkling water
• 50 millilitres of milk
• 5 grams of fresh yeast 
• 1 spoon with honey
• a bit of baking powder
• a few walnuts 

Mix the butter at room temperature with the flour, the baking powder, the milk, the sparkling water, the yeast previously mixed with the honey. Make a non sticky dough.

Divide the dough in 3 equal parts.

Spread one part of the dough on the table as thin as 1-2 cm.

Cut the dough in squares .

Add in a corner a bit of Turkish delight and a small piece of walnut kernel and roll it.

Put them on a tray covered in baking paper and let them bake for 15-20 minutes or until ready.

When ready, pass the rolls through some powder sugar.

Enjoy!

 This is a Romanian traditional recipe.

Hotel review - Hotel Mercure Niort Marais Poitevin, France

The room was OK. Free WiFi and free parking places.

The breakfast was a disaster: the pastries were old, the pancakes from the supermarket, the eggs looked shady... you could only eat some bread with butter.

Trip to 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands by night

Quite lovely.

Homemade pistachio biscuits - recipe with step-by-step photos

While in Brussels, we ate some pistachio biscuits and we liked them so much, that we decided to give it a try. The result was some flavored homemade biscuits.

 Ingredients for 15-17 biscuits:

• 200 grams of wheat flour
• 100 grams of butter at room temperature
• 90 grams of ground pistachio
• 50 grams sugar
• 1 egg
• a bit of salt

First ground the pistachio.

After you´ve done that, mix 70 grams of pistachio with half of the sugar, the salt and the egg and blend everything for a minute.

Beat the butter at room temperature with the other half of sugar until fluffy.
Add the pistachio composition and mix well.

Add the flour gradually and mix until you obtain a non sticky dough.

Roll the dough in plastic film and put it in the freezer for 10 minutes.

Preheat the oven at 180 Celsius degrees.

On a sheet of parching paper spread the remaining grounded pistachio and put the rolled dough above. Roll it over the pistachio until you have nice pistachio edges.

Cut the dough in 2 cm pieces. Put the biscuits in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes or until done.

Enjoy!

Trip to Middelburg, The Netherlands

Well, why not? It has medieval narrow streets, a few channels, a market place, so it´s easy to spend a few hours here.