A “bite” of Tunisia

Here I am back from lovely Tunisia! Lovely, lovely…

Lovely landscapes…

Lovely monuments and ruins…

Remember I told you I went to visit a friend? What I didn’t tell you is that my friend works as a head chef in a 5 star hotel in Tunis.

This is Walid, the hotel's pastry chef. I had vip access to the pastry kitchen and got to taste some yummy stuff. Oh yes, lucky me!

I also ate a lot of local food! Gotta love that Coke in arabiac …

And tea… I drank a lot of tea! This one is green tea with pine nuts. Amazing stuff!

They love tea, this is where locals drink theirs. It was inside a market.

And this was the market itself, such a fun place to visit...

... or to buy food. I have no idea what this guy was selling but it must have been good since everyone was buying it. It looked like a huge thick pancake.

Instead of the funny looking pancake I bought some traditional sweets. I bought sweets, what a surprise!...

One of my favorite parts of the vacations was having dinner at Walid’s house (the pastry chef) with his family. Homey traditional tunisian food! And how cool is their living room?

And when I say food, I mean lots of it! Salad, fish, cannelloni with harissa, couscous…

And because I was not tired of local food, the next day I went to a local market. Don't you just love to visit markets when you're abroad?

But besides all they food, I loved their doors. I have tons of pictures of doors.

I really loved their doors! So much in fact, I wanted to bring this one home with me. Unfortunately it didn’t fit my suitcase…

Good thing the traditional sweets were small and did fit my bags. Hummm let’s see, how many of each will I take?

Aren't they gorgeous? And how much patience do you have to have to place each pistachio and pine nuts like that?

I’m not sure if I’ll recreate these at home but I did buy some specific ingredients, I can’t wait to give them a go! But now I'll have to go back to real life...