Now let’s take a small break from all these informative articles which I have been writing for some time now, and just share some very interesting recipes for more exotic… sweets, so to say… Let’s focus a little bit on different cultures and their eating habits, focusing on sweets, of course…
I mentioned in one of my previous post that sugar and alcohol are the only things that do not offer our body any nutrients. So, with or without them, it pretty much the same thing. More than that, sugar and alcohol contain lots of calories and can harm your body, if consumed in excess, without offering it any nutrients. But cakes, pies, cookies, ice cream and so on taste so gooood!!! How can you live without enjoying an ice cream on a hot summer day or without eating a freshly out-of-the-oven cinnamon apple pie in wintertime?
Maybe you`re surprised, but some people can live without these goodies all their life, without even feeling deprived! And all because sugar creates addiction! You know why! Once you’ve tried it once, hard to let it go!
And because we’re all so different all around the Globe! We think differently, we dress differently, we EAT differently and we consider normal all sorts of different stuff. It is just normal for our sugar cravings to be completely the 
opposite!
In Europe, let’s say… Sweets are different from country to country! Every country has its own traditional pie or cake! First thing that comes to my mind is Kurtos Kalacs from Hungary… uuu yummy! A sort of sweet made from sweet baked bread doe rolled in a cylinder form covered with sugar syrup which caramelizes in the heat. After cooking, the Kurtos Kalac gets covered with grated nuts, grated coconut powder, almonds, plain sugar or all sorts of other goodies. France has its crepes, some crunchy yummy pancakes, Britain with her custard, and so many other countries with many other traditional sweets… And as we travel South, Greece Turkey and reach Asia, the sweets become even sweeter:)) ! Sugar or honey syrup is the king, right? But also the cookies become smaller and more concentrated.
The discussion is long, may take all day… But to cut things short, let me offer you the recipe for BAKLAVA, a sweet found in many Asian and even European countries, which I consider to be most relevant. So, just start cooking, it’s just another easy recipes which turns out to be something spectacular!
9 very thin pie doe strips, about 300 – 350 g
300 g grated nuts
200 g butter
200 ml rum
200 ml water
150 g honey
250 g sugar
2 tbsp cinnamon powder
1 tbsp c0coconut powder
Separate the very thin doe strips into 3;
Mix nuts with cinnamon;
Take first 3 pie doe strips and put them in the baking tray, sticking them together with melted butter.
Put half of the nuts and cinnamon mixture onto the strips;
Put other 3 strips of pie doe, repeating the procedure;
Add the rest of the cinnamon and nuts mixture and the other 3 strips of doe;
Put the tray in the fridge for about 40 minutes;
Heat the oven;
Take out the tray from the fridge, cut small portions horizontally and vertically and then put it in the oven for about 30 minutes;
When it’s golden brown, take it out of the oven;
Mean time, boil the water with the sugar;
After they boiled, add the honey and leave it to simmer at small flame;
Add the rum essence and leave it to rest;
Add uniformly the syrup to the freshly baked Baklava;
Leave it to rest and soak up, ans save a little bit of syrup for serving;
Put it into the fridge until it’s cooled down;
Serve the baklava when cold, adding the syrup;
Also add on each portion some coconut powder, or, even better some grated fresh pistachio.