Belgium is a country in Western Europe bordered by Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, France and the North Sea. It is densely populated and made up from Dutch speaking Flemish people and French speaking Walloons - native Belgians.
Belgium has many Michelin starred restaurants and is famous for beer, chocolate, waffles and fries with mayonnaise. The national dishes of Belgium are steak and fries with salad and mussels and chips.
What a relief to travel to Belgium for this weeks meal. A country that we have visited and partaken of its traditional food and drink! What could go wrong?
So for our meal this week we made Tomate aux Crevettes and Moules Frites. Somehow we forgot the chocolate! 😮 We did find a disappointingly small selection of Belgian beer in our local liquor store - seriously only 2 types and one of them was Stella!
The tomate aux crevettes was crazily easy to make - just hollow out some tomatoes and fill them with tiny prawns tossed in the mayonnaise, serve and eat with crusty French bread!
The hardest bit was carrying the plates to the table without
the tomatoes falling over and the prawns falling out!
We have made Moules so may times that Gary didn't actually need a recipe. Simply saute the onions and garlic, toss in the mussels with white wine and herbs, toss for a few minutes and Voila! (as they say in French speaking Belgium)
Fries or chips really don't need a recipe do they?
Our finished meal with a side of mayonnaise to dip the chips in - delicious!
The beer - Stella for Gary and strawberry beer for
Charlotte and me (because we are girls and like pink!!!! )
Mmmmmmmmmmm!
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