Eating out - Hotel Restaurant "Casa cu tei", Craiova, Romania

The set menu had a soup, a main course and a dessert.

Only the soup was edible. The schnitzel was terrible and the dessert was a small packed sponge cake that one can buy from the supermarkets.

Yogurt bread - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 300 grams of flour
• 150 grams of yogurt
• 8 spoons of warm milk
• 20 grams of melted butter
• 20 grams of sugar
• 5 grams of yeast
• salt

Mix all the ingredients above and let the dough rest for 30 minutes.

Make little balls and let them rest for another half an hour.

Bake the bread in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 35 - 45 minutes (before putting them in the oven you may spread on top some sesame seeds or poppy seeds).

Enjoy!

The original recipe can be found here

Eating out - Restaurant "Terasa Doamnei", Bucharest, Romania

Like many of the old restaurants in Bucharest, this one is not what it used to be anymore. Now it has become only a tourist trap with below average food and above average prices.

Trip to Versailles, France

As probably all of you already knew, we confirm that Versailles has a lovely palace and gardens.

If you want to visit the palace, arm yourself with a great deal of patience, as the line at the entrance is very long.

Filled bread buns - recipe (including photos)

 Ingredients :

• 2 pre-baked bread buns
• 2 eggs
• fresh cream
• bell pepper
• tomatoes
• cheese
• bacon
• olives

Carve out the interior of the buns.

Add the chopped cheese,the chopped bell pepper the tomatoes and the chopped bacon.

Add the olives and the fresh cream.

Finally add the beaten eggs.

Put them in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 25 minutes.

You can bake this recipe for breakfast or as a snack.

Enjoy!

My source of inspiration was taken from this blog

2012 Christmas market in Trier, Germany

The Christmas market in Trier will open on November 26 and it will end on December 23.

More information can be found here.

2012 Christmas market in Luxembourg

The Christmas market in Luxembourg Ville will start on Monday, November 26, 2012 and will be open until December 31, 2012.

More information can be found here.

Two cookies in Meissen, Germany

The cookies were OK, although, without gelatin it would have been excellent.

Pear madeleines - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs
• 2 pears
• 70 grams of salted butter
• 80 grams of flour
• 2 spoons of sugar (more or less, according to taste)
• 1 packet of vanilla sugar
• 1 spoon of honey

Mix the eggs with the sugar and the vanilla sugar.

Add the flour and continue mixing.

Add the honey and the grated pears.

Add the melted (then cooled) butter and mix.

Put the composition in baking trays (we used a silicone tray) and let it in the oven at 170 degrees Celsius for 10 - 15 minutes.

Enjoy!

Meissen, porzellan-manufaktur, Germany - part 3

The last thing about the Meissen porcelain: the more kitschy - the more expensive they are.

It reminded us very much of the communist regime in Romania, where all the houses were full of kitsch porcelain (some examples here).