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Belgium Beer – Part Two

February 24, 2010

Beer consists out of four main ingredients: water, starch source (such as malted barley), hops and yeast.
For the production of one liter of beer, you will need around 5 to 8 liters of pure,  clean water.  In the water goes mostly barley, and sometimes also wheat.  These grains contain the necessarily enzymes to convert the [...]

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Brownies with Pecan Nuts

February 24, 2010

A friend of mine at the stable, asked me today if I have a good recipe for Brownies.  So I thought to add this one to my recipe page.
This is a recipe I found in Philippe Conticini “Sensations” [WARNING: The book is in French]: 288 recettes de patisseries.  He says about this recipe:  A Brownie [...]

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Belgian Beer And Michael Jackson: A Famous Beer Expert

February 22, 2010

Michael Jackson was a British beer expert and author of many books about the subject. He died in 2007. He had a passion for Belgian beer, just as I do!
Michael Jackson wrote: “No other country brews beer so complex in character as the finest beer in Belgium”.
Belgium has around 125 breweries, and produces more than [...]

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Chicken with Cider, Calvados and Apples

February 21, 2010

A typical Normandy dish.
For 4 diners:
- 1 chicken, cut into 8 pieces
- Calvados
- clarified butter
- 3 shallots, finely chopped
- cider (dry!)
- mushrooms thinly sliced
- Creme fraiche
- 3 apples, cored, peeled and sliced
- parsley
- salt and pepper
1. Season the chicken with salt and pepper.
2. Fry them until golden brown in a pot with the clarified [...]

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Clarified Butter: What is it and how do I make it?

February 21, 2010

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Berti Chef Knife Ordered – Onion Soup, Lamb and Orange Sorbet and Chocolate Curls

February 19, 2010

Berti Small Chef Knife Ordered!
Tom and I did some research on Berti Knives and he ordered a small Chef Knife for me!!! Yeah!  Berti has a really great idea for wood blocks.   Magnetize them and each knife has it’s own dedicated block!  They stock together with a little silhouette of what knife goes [...]

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Do Riedel Wine Glasses Really Make a Difference in Taste?

February 17, 2010

Let me tell you one of our secrets.
We use “Vino Cheapo” for our table wine at home on most days. It’s a 1.29 Euro one liter bottle of French “vin de table”. A concoction of French red wines. The taste is pleasant in an average wine glass. Before I tell you the secret, [...]

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Berti and Global Knives – The Cooking Supply Store and The Cheese Shop

February 16, 2010

We went to a cooking supply store in Antwerp today.
“De Kookwinkel Soly” Kasteelpleinstraat 64 in Antwerpen.    They first started as a kitchen supply shop for ships (Antwerp is a harbor), together with iron hardware for ships.  In the fifth generation, they focused only on kitchen supplies.
Last year they celebrated their 150th anniversary being in [...]

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