Our summer breaks are sacred. We have limited time to relax and we are waiting 3 seasons to reach warmest months in Europe, so… to have really nice vacation is a top priority for me. We’re already too old to go camping and too tired of nasty, dirty and overcrowded beaches here in Bulgaria, so the last couple of years we’re always traveling abroad at least twice during the summer. After more than 10 years in Greece, for our first 2017 summer vacation abroad we choose to check Spanish Mediterranean. I looked all over the offers I was able to find, but all of them were for one and the same location and I didn’t like it at all. Plus the hotels were really awful. After careful consideration, a lot of trip advisers and wonder, we have picked up Santa Susana – small village near Barcelona. It seemed nice and on an hour and half distance from Barcelona where we have never been. So, I was having the opportunity to mix my travel and summer break appetite and have it both at once. I booked a lovely (pretty expensive) (shame on me) hotel through booking.com and I can tell you something – it was worth it. It was clean, room big enough for 4 just for the 2 of us, nice breakfast, good coffee, friendly staff and located right in front of the beach and to the main street. It was also on 3 minutes walking distance to the train station. Now, let’s get back Read More
Danish love
It took me one year to finally reach our 2017 trips. Well, it took me this time mostly because I’m bit lazy and I’m always able to find reason why I’m not doing something instead of actually doing it… but however, let’s go back to Denmark. It was almost Christmas (back in 2016) when I have decided to book a trip to somewhere as a gift for Daniel (I already told you – I’m the best girlfriend ever). I was checking the North and was wondering if we should go to Sweden, Denmark or Norway. It turns out that there is huge aquarium in Copenhagen (National Aquarium Denmark – Den Bla Planet). It was pretty easy to decide where to go after knowing that 🙂 We took early afternoon 3+ hours flight to Copenhagen and landed there thinking we’re most probably going to die from cold as late spring temperatures in whole Scandinavia are up to 13-15 degrees Celsius. Well, not at all. It was like 25 degrees and sun was shining all over that astonishing country. We caught the metro from the airport to the apartment we rented for couple of Danish crones (public transport in Copenhagen is great!). I have used airbnb once again to book a flat, and once again I didn’t have any troubles with the place and the organization. Having in mind that hotel prices in Copenhagen are absolutely insane, our deal in airbnb was closest to what I can accept as ‘normal’. Let me tell you something about Copenhagen – Read More
Coconut flour chocolate cake
Recently I was wondering what to do with my coconut flour. I bought a package long time ago and realize that as of then, I cooked with it just once and that was actually really bad buy for me. Bad but expensive… so, I looked all over the internet for something easy and of course – tasty. I have found something interesting in one of the numerous health web sites over the internet, with author Ambitious kitchen. I have changed couple of things in it (basically because I didn’t have some of the ingredients, but mostly – because I was following my intuition 🙂 ) and ended with a great result. So, here are my ingredients for this healthy cake with lots of love 🙂 1/4 tea cup butter (~70-80 grams) – 3-4 BGN for a 250 grams package 3 tablespoons honey – 7 to 10 BGN for a kilo jar 2-3 pinches of vanilla – up to 1 BGN for a 10 pinch package 2 eggs – 2 to 4 BGN for 6 to 12 eggs pack 3/4 tea cup of milk (~150-170 grams) – 3-4 BGN for a kilo bottle half tea cup coconut flour (~120-130 grams) – 10 to 15 BGN per package half teaspoon of baking powder – up to 1 BGN for a package (~20 tea spoons spoons) pinch of salt – 2 BGN for a kilo bottle dark chocolate (minimum 75%) – 2-4 BGN for a piece half tea cup coconut rasp (~120-130 grams) – up to 2-3 BGN per 300 grams package It is not Read More
Raw sugarless candies
Long time ago I bought chopper with the initial idea of preparing raw candies from nuts, dried fruits and berries, avocado, cocoa and so on – healthy, sugarless ingredients. By sugarless I mean without any added sugar (white/brown sugar, honey, peanut butter, etc.). Nuts themselves are sweet, especially gathered with raisins, coconut rasp, dried plums and figs… so, you can easily make yourself candies with healthy ingredients and to eat them all without feeling guilt. Well, there have been months since I tried to use it, but once I got used to it – this chopper really helped me a lot in my cooking experiments. After using it numerous of times to chop onion, tomatoes and numerous of other things, I finally used it for the initial purpose I bought it for. What I’ve used for my delicious unbelievably yummy candies? 2 packages raw nuts mix (almonds, raisins, peanuts, cashews, etc.) – up to 5 BGN per package ~200 grams a handful of walnuts (~150 grams) – up to 15 BGN per kilo 2-3 full tablespoons of coconut rasp – up to 2-3 BGN per 300 grams package 1-2 tablespoons of cacao – up to 2 BGN per 300 grams package you’ll need additional coconut rasp and cacao to powder your candies as final touch It is pretty simple to do those candies, as you basically wont bake, brew and stew – you’ll only use the chopper and your hands 🙂 Put your nuts mixture into a bowl with lukewarm water for half an hour or something. Do Read More
Amsterdam – go see it!
It was January (2016) and I was unemployed (best time of my life – I’ve been working since when I was 16…). I was desperate but not because I was unemployed, damn no – I was in desperate need to go somewhere. We were looking for a new home to buy, and we were desperate for that as well, as we weren’t able to find any. I was bored (what the hell was I thinking?!) and one day I told Daniel something like ‘Look, we need to book a flight to somewhere soon otherwise I’ll go crazy here!’ so… we booked a flight to Eindhoven as a cheapest point to reach Amsterdam in May. 2 months later I got new job, we found our place and shit got real. However, we told our real estate agent that we’re having a trip during May so any contracts we should sign must be signed afterwards. (By the way this was sort of mistake, but I’ll tell you that story later) (I think I’m saying that pretty often, yeah?) And I have told my new employer that I’m having a trip, so I need vacation right after I start. They agreed. Back to the trip, I have checked that Netherlands’ weather is quite awful all the time, so there is a big chance to be rainy in May. But summer tickets (with better chance of sunny weather) were too expensive for my unemployed budget, so I booked late May hoping for the best. Let me tell you something – Read More