Recipes

Boulettes aux carottes (Patrick De Deckker)

Apricot Cake (Danièle Leyder)

Vlaamse Carbonnade (Rob Us)

• 200g flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 125g sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar (Jaike's grandmother's trick: put a vanilla stick in sugar and let it rest for a few days)
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 125g butter (soft - I melt it slightly in microwave)
• 125g almond meal
• 800g tin of apricots - drain the juice thoroughly
• for the icing: 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1 egg yolk and 1 teaspoon of milk

Mix flour and baking powder. Add in the middle: sugar, eggs and spices. Mix. Add butter, then almond meal. Mix (preferably with your hands).

Let in rest in fridge for 15 minutes

Lay half of the pastry in a baking tin (no need to grease it). Use more pastry to put on the edges, but keep some pastry for the top. Add the drained apricots. Add some strings of pastry on top - see picture.

Add mixture of sugar, egg yolk and milk on the top of the pastry.

Bake in pre-heated oven (160 degress) for 30 minutes.

• 1kg diced beef
• 4 onions
• Butter
• Salt and pepper
• Nutmeg
• Flour
• Bay leave + thyme
• ~0.5 l brown beer (I use ~70% brown beer and 30% pale beer)
• 1 slice of bread
• Mustard

Melt butter in a pot and fry beef slightly. When the beef is slightly brown, take it out, Add some more butter and fry the very coarsely chopped onions. When onions start to get brown, add a spoon of flour and mix well. Add the beer and heat it till it all boils. Add the beef, the bay leave and thyme. Add pepper, salt and nutmeg.

Let it boil slightly for ~2 hours. Spread a good amount of mustard on the slice of bread, cut it into squares and add it to the pot. Leave it for another 1 to 1.5 hour, until the sauce gets thicker. You could add some more flour if there wasn't enough bread. The dish is ready when the meat almost falls apart. Accompaniment: mashed potatoes go well with the dish; fresh chips and mayonnaise are even better! The dish tends to taste better the next day. So if you have time prepare it the night before you want to eat it.