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Here’s for all those who didn’t get a chance to try the chocolate cake I got for my birthday. By now, it’s already long gone. This delicious chocolate cake naturally contains lots of chocolate as well as cacao powder and even chocolate pudding powder, to make sure it’s chocolaty enough. It tastes fabulous! I suppose it’s quite cruel to withhold the recipe, so here it is: Read more

In addition to the recipe of Luikse Wafels I want to share another recipe for a Belgian specialty: Samurai sauce or ‘Samurai saus’, as it is called in Dutch, a devilish spicy mayonnaise.

In every ‘frituur’ in Belgium you can be sure to find Samurai sauce on the menu. I’ve never seen it here in Germany, but the reason can also be that I just never enter a french fries restaurant here. Anyway, whenever I’m in Belgium I go and eat french fries with Samurai sauce. Ever since I tried this sauce I thought french fries with boring mayonnaise and/or ketchup were not so very enjoyable anymore and at the rare occasions when I made french fries in the oven at home, I was craving for Samurai sauce. That’s why I searched for a recipe and I found this incredibly easy one on a Belgian homepage for recipes:

For a two person portion: mix 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise with 1 teaspoon of Sambal Oelek.

The alternative would probably be a trip to Belgium to buy a bottle of Samurai sauce.

No, please! Avert your eyes from the picture! It’s actually a pretty tasty dish! What you see here is called Labskaus (or Lapskaus) and it is a specialty from Northern Germany and in particular from Hamburg. The coloring given by the red beets may deceive you at first, but after you’ve tasted it, you’ll agree that it’s actually quite good! Here’s the recipe for this rather special dish: Read more

We recently went eating sushi again in the Sushi Circle in Hamburg. I would like to recommend that restaurant. The personnel is friendly, the food is really good and there’s and all-you-can-eat option for merely €16,90 (miso soup included).

If you don’t know where to start, the salmon sushi is always great. And when you get to the desserts, keep an eye out for the doughy banana balls with vanilla sauce because they won’t be on that belt for very long – they are simply the best! If anyone happens to have that recipe… pleaaaase!

Some people already know it: I just LOVE waffles!

But with waffels I don’t mean any kind of waffle, they must be ‘Luikse wafels’, which are also known as ’suikerwafels’. In English known as ‘Liège waffels’ or in German as ‘Lütticher Waffeln’.

Lately I spent 10 days in Leuven (Belgium) and had a warm waffle almost every day in a waffle shop in the Leopold Vanderkelenstraat (at the corner of the Bondgenotenlaan). Now that I’m back, I of course can’t just stop with it. I searched for a good recipe and I didn’t give up until I found one. I immediately started preparing some and they where so delicious that I decided that everybody should know how to make them. Here is the recipe: Read more