Just as when i made my fried chicken, and marinated in a buttermilk bath with all kinds of herbs/spices/heat-inducing things, none of it transferred to the meat. It really doesn’t seem to permeate.
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Ahh! Watermelon salad! Exactly what I need right now.
Here is one I made a few weeks ago.
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Sorry, I didn’t realise! It was 2 different things that were written in 2 sentences right after one another. I didn’t mean to lump them together. It was careless of me. Apologies.
Brussels is full of rubbish and most tourists only hang around the Grand Palace, which is nice and pretty. The area I go through to get to Cantillon brewery is an African enclave (with many businesses and restaurants owned by different African nationalities). This has nothing to do with my comment about the scruff and dirt in the city.
I apologise if it appreared I made a sweeping generalisation. I have been to Namibia, an African country, and it’s clean, beautiful and diverse.
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Looks so homey and comforting!
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Phew! Glad to read this. I thought it odd you would go for Moroccan food after a comment like that LOL
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It was clear to me that you had been misunderstood.
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Last night after a day of travel we kept it simple: Currywurst, baked beans, sliced tomatoes, and (not pictured) buttered green beans.
The night before, on our trip, we made chicken tikka masala with rice, naan, and green beans with coriander brown butter.
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The texture looks almost like a risotto type texture, but given the ingredients looks delicious.
thank you!
Yes, thanks, i let it sit in the stock too long, but it tasted great.
Presunto, I felt certain, knowing you all this time, that your comments were completely free of any offense.
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Thank you for clarifying your comments - much appreciated.
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Let’s put this misunderstanding behind us. The photo of rubbish strewn street was supposed to be right after the “Brussels is scruffy etc” sentence, then the next sentence should have begun. Anyways…
For as long as I can remember there has always been so much rubbish on the street in Belgium. The government charges per household the amount of rubbish it produces. People find a way to get around not paying and there’s nothing the government can do about it because they don’t catch anyone red-handed. It’s clear they have no intention to change the system so now illegal dumping has become the norm and nobody cares. If you see something all the time your brain is programmed to ignore it. Probably most, if not all, western/developed countries have a standard system of paying the county or provincial a rubbish removal fee which includes containers for different types of rubbish to be collected on schedule. Well, apparently not in Belgium. But why, FFS?
Entrance of the metro station nearest to my lodging this morning. It wasn’t there yesterday.
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I thought I could taste the onion & garlic powder, and the salt, of course… and the added cheese & hot paprika in the panko also were discernable. Just means I need to amp up the hot sauce amount next time. 
A long day hanging out with my young Korean acquaintance drinking and even eating a warm meal together. I can’t be around people too long and eating a meal with someone is something intimate which I don’t indulge in lightly so it was remarkable that I could spend so many hours with young Korean acquaintance today. But now I’m beat.
My dinner was slightly different than what the menu states. Maybe they change things around a little without changing the menu. The food was fine. I got pork loin with a Cantillon apricot beer sauce. On the menu it’s pork belly which is quite 2 very different things. And there’s also supposed to be chanterelle mushrooms. This amount of meat is enough for both of us at home. I got the other 2 people to help me finish most of it. They finished theirs as I was going through half of mine. This is another reason why I don’t eat with other people… I am a slow eater.
Partner’s is braised beef, a typical home-style meal. I tried a piece of meat but it was enough. Extremely beefy. Love the chips, though.
I thought it was New England IPA but it’s Imperial IPA. So good I drank 2 glasses.
My beer is on the chalk board (first item).
A really nice, small family run restaurant serving home-style food. Very good service to boot. We got there first so I was allowed to choose any table (next to the window for the photos). Shortly after we sat down a young Chinese couple came in and decided to sit next to us, the entire restaurant was still empty. Being in so close to them I saw what it’s like when tourists don’t have language proficiency. It costs time. They took ages to scan the menu with their phones and still struggled to understand the dishes. Waitress explained everything patiently, both food and beer, but they couldn’t understand much either. The waitress could only ask what meat they wanted to eat and they picked one. Menu is very small so you can narrow down the choices fast if you just choose 1 type of meat as there is only 1 dish of that meat to choose from. Beer choices are light or dark, they had no idea either. Good job that waitress. Kind and patient and most importantly, respect and dignity for others.
The waitress is in my photo unintentionally.
A few murals I saw today. The first importance of creativity is it makes life interesting. They are real branches in the first photo. The room appears to be some kind of space with a caution sign.
Creativity makes life interesting and fulfilling.
The round objects are old CDs and LPs. With some extra materials the image appears to be more than 1 dimensional. Clever.
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We ended up having dinner with friends who moved away from the area a year ago, and who are in town for a week for their daughter’s summer camp.
We congregated at the CBDTR for drinks and dinner: bok choy & black mushrooms, cumin beef, a freakin’ boat of sashimi, sichuan dry pot with fish and spicy chicken. Everything was good – no pics cuz we ate it all up 
As for tonight, I’m making a cheesesteak-BLT combo sammich with TJ’s shaved beef, a discovery of our very own @mariacarmen. Bacon, lettuce, FM tomato, quick-seared beef & melted cheddar.
Hope it’s gon’ be good. Poker game afterwards. Hope I win 
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I had never heard of Cantillon beer. Then today Pete Wells’s review of the bar at Momofuku Ko appeared in the NYTimes. I looked at the website, downloaded the wine list. They offer four different bottlings of Cantillon, all of them 750 ml. Two of them sell for $150 apiece, the other two for $180.
Hey, Pre…don’t feel bad…
I spent 5 weeks in Europe in France, Spain, Greece and Italy…and yes compared to 1975 when I first traveled for 6 weeks …Europe is much more “globalized”
so I get what You intended.I am not insulted at all
Even here in the states…it is different…after all if it did not change…meaning the world …we would we be today?
But I do appreciate the change, globalization and influences when I travel.
I just got back to NYC after 5 weeks in Europe…
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I recall my parents saying a similar thing about Brussels- not very attractive, large dirty city. No desire to return.
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