Whole wheat homemade buns - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 400 grams of whole wheat flour
• 200 milliliters of warm water
• 50 grams of oat flakes
• 20 grams of fresh yeast
• 5 spoons with olive oil and another 3 to be spread on top of the buns
• 2 spoons with fresh cream
• 2 spoons with flax seeds
• 1 spoon with sugar
• 1 egg white
• salt

Mix the flour with the fresh cream, 5 spoons of olive oil, the salt, the yeast previously mixed with sugar, the water, the egg white and the oat flakes.

Let it rest for 40 minutes in a warm place.

Make little buns and let them rest for another 30 minutes.

Brush the 3 spoons with olive oil and spread the flax seeds over the buns .

Put them in the oven at 180 Celsius degrees for 30-35 minutes or until ready.

Enjoy!

 

Trip to Zamora, Spain

Nice town, very clean and airy for an old center.

Journées du Patrimoine Luxembourg 2015

This year edition started on September 24 but you have time until October 11.

This year's theme is "Colours of the building heritage", with many museums, castles and other public buildings organising guided tours.

The program and more info can be found here

Trip to Plasencia, Spain

Only the name is interesting, that's it. At least we bought a Made in Spain straw hat from there.

Goat cheese pastries (appetizer) - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 1 pastry sheet (230 grams)
• 150 of salted goat cheese
• 2 eggs

Mix the cheese with one egg.

Cut the big pastry sheet in 15-20 smaller round forms.

Add a spoon with cheese on each pastry form and then wrap the dough around the cheese.

With a fork, press the edges of the dough.

Brush the remaining egg above the pastries and put them in the oven at 180 Celsius degrees for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown.

Enjoy!

Hotel review - Radisson Blu Hotel Lisbon, Portugal

The room was rather spacious, but the bed was rather uncomfortable and also the pillows. The walls between the rooms are very thin.

Paid public parking in front of the hotel and free wi-fi.

Good breakfast.

Trip to Palencia, Spain

Just forget about it ... we went there so that you don't have to :)

Jam donuts in the oven

Ingredients for 20 donuts:

• 250 grams of flour
• 100- 150 milliliters of milk
• 50 grams of butter
• 10 grams of fresh yeast
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 spoon with sugar
• 1 vanilla sugar
• a pinch of salt

Mix the fresh yeast with the warm milk and the sugar.

Add a spoon with flour over it and let it rest for a few minutes.

Mix the flour with the salt.

Add the milk/yeast over the flour together with the vanilla sugar, the melted and then cooled butter and the egg yolk.

Make a non sticky dough. Let it rest for an hour in a warm place.

Spread the dough on the table and cut the dough using a glass turned up-side down.
Then raise the margins of each piece of dough and add the jam in the middle.

Put the donuts in the oven at 180 Celsius degrees for 20 - 25 minutes or until golden brown.

Enjoy them fresh and warm!

Trip to Toro, Spain

Small town, but lively. Perfect if you want to see how life is in a typical Spanish town, far from the tourist crowds.

An absolute must: the local chocolate "La Superlativa" - the wonderful taste from 20 years ago.

Trip to Viana do Castelo, Portugal

Small city center with many shops were tourists can buy a last souvenir from Portugal, before entering Spain.