Two cookies in Mons, Belgium

The cookies were very good, and fresh.

The shop Anna et Vito is located as you enter the old city center, on rue d'Havre, no 135.

Trip to Calais, France

It's good for spending a couple of hours while waiting for the ferry.

Chicken with mushrooms - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 1 chicken breast
• 6 mushrooms 
• 1 bell pepper
• 2 young onions
• 5 pieces of garlic
• 3 spoons of olive oil
• 3 spoons of soya sauce
• 2 spoons of flour
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• 1 spoon of red wine
• 1/3 teaspoon of salt

Cut the chicken, the bell pepper and the mushrooms in small strips.
Cut the onion in rings and chop the garlic.

In a bowl, mix the chicken strips with 2 spoons of soya sauce, the wine,1 spoon of flour and a pinch of salt.

In a pan add 2 spoons of olive oil and the chicken and let it fry until golden.

 Take out the chicken, add the remaining oil, the young onion and the garlic and let them fry for a few seconds.

Add the bell pepper and let them cook for 2 minutes.

Add the mushrooms and let them cook for 1 minute.

Add back the chicken and let everything cook for a few minutes.
Add the sugar, the remaining soya sauce, the salt and the remaining flour mixed with 3 spoons of water.
Let everything cook for a few minutes.

Enjoy!

The original recipe can be found here

Two cookies in Louviere, Belgium

Disastrous  - it's the perfect word to describe this cookies.

And it was the only one open on a Friday evening ... and full of people.

Trip to Avigliana, Italy

Small medieval town, a 30 minute drive from Torino.

Trip to Mons, Belgium

Small town, however one of the most beautiful ones you can find in the Walloon region.

Pear clafoutis - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 250 milliliters of milk
• 4 spoons of fresh cream
• 60 grams of sugar
• 80 grams of wheat flour
• 2 packets of vanilla sugar
• 20 grams of butter
• 5 pears
• 4 eggs
• 1 lemon 

Clean the pears, cut them in half and add squeeze the juice from the lemon on top.

Heat the milk with the fresh cream and the vanilla sugar.

Beat the eggs with the sugar about 2 minutes.

Add the flour and mix.

Pour the milk / cream mixture and mix.

Add the composition in a pan, then add the pears. Add a bit of butter on top of each pear.

Bake it in the oven for about 40 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius.

If you want you can add 2 beaten egg whites above the cake with 5 minutes before it's done

Enjoy!

 

 
The original recipe can be found here

Hotel review - Hôtel La Louve, Louviere, Belgium

In the standard room that we booked there was a heavy sewage smell.

The superior room they gave us after we complained was OK.

The breakfast was poor.

Free internet and free parking places behind the hotel.

Overall, poor value for money for a stay at this hotel (we paid 75 euro per night).