Disaster Scones

Oh, yes, disasters happen!
Let me tell you about my latest: me and scones. I should just say no! Resist the temptation of thinking myself a scone-baker. It simply doesn’t work. I followed the recipe to the last dot (so there is no way I can blame Bill for the result) but they simply didn’t come [...]

Tea Cake with Bill

How do you spend a rainy weekend? Cooking, of course. Well and doing a hundred other house related chores. Or does that only happen to me? Just as long as I can avoid the cold, the rain and just overall wetness I am fine cooking. It is only July after all.
Then again this tea cake [...]

Summer on a Tray

I do slightly worry that summer will never come. It is almost August and although part of Europe is suffering from unbearable heat, here, Belgium, no light, grey skies, rain, and if we are lucky 20C.
Today I decided no more! Ha. So I went out and bought this uber-cute, flowery, summery tray. If there is [...]

A Burger Kind of Night

I sometimes wonder what the purpose of a food blog is. To share everything we eat/ drink with the world? Hopefully not. Although at times I have the impression everything we cook and eat features here at a certain point, I am glad to realize that a lot of our food life stays in the [...]

Very Belgian – Fromage de Bruxelles

After moving to Brussels, this was probably one of the first cheeses I tried. Brussels – Fromage de Bruxelles. How much more obvious can it get?
I was in for a shock. A self confessed cheese lover, the Fromage de Bruxelles was anything but love at first sight: incredibly salty, stinky (I know they say the [...]

21 July – Party Rice Pulau

I promised more recipes from our National Day Party. Ideally I would share them all with you, but unfortunately I don’t remember who cooked what.
One dish in particular though was absolutely delicious. Not that I haven’t eaten rice before. But this rice dish was unforgettable. Fluffy, flavoured, colorful rice. Really, the best (exotic) rice I’ve [...]

Saucy Sauce

Sauce. Not gravy. Not marinades. Sauce.
That was the somehow short but to the point description of this month’s ‘Waiter There’s Something in My … Sauce’ hosted by Andrew over at Spittoon Extra. So instead of thinking long and hard about an unusual, not yet cooked sauce (and given the tight deadline) we went for the [...]

21 July – Perfect Starter

There was a lot of food at our National Day Party. Everyone was asked to bring something to eat and something to drink. Make that times 20 and you have a truly great (food) party. Which lasted till the next day. Won’t comment on that.
Yours truly (x 2) brought along a tabouleh and home made [...]

Bottle of Wine. No Corkscrew.

I don’t think I’ll ever attempt this at home. But now I know why it is always good to have a corkscrew.  Open A Bottle Of Wine Without Corkscrew

National Day Party

Enough said (or photographed). Recovering now after a feast for the eyes, the taste buds, with friends cooking up a storm. Some recipes will follow.