Chocolate Chip-Banana Belgian Waffles

Gluten-free pancake mix and rice milk are the secret ingredients in this healthy breakfast. Chocolate and bananas never tasted better together! From Taste of Home Good Food for Kids! who credits Silvana Nardone – Brooklyn, New York.

Mushroom-Flavored Forcemeat Stuffing

From Ruth Van Waerebeek’s “Everybody Eats Well in Belgian Cookbook.” She uses it as the stuffing in her Christmas Turkey recipe, which I use on Thanksgiving. The stuffing takes a fair amount of prep (and those porcini mushrooms can be hard to find and expensive; I’ve started skipping them), but people absolutely love it. It’s got a rich, complex taste completely different from the traditional bread-and-herb stuffing. (I looked it up: Forcemeat comes from the French “farce,” to stuff. The forcemeat stuffing is more like a meatloaf.) This recipe is enough for a 12 to 14 pound turkey.

Waterzooi Van Vis – Flemmish Fish Stew

Similar to something I had in Brussels at a lunch spot. You stand at a bar and eat standing up. I didn’t speak any of the languages and the waiter just brought me the daily specials. It was about 3 degrees and no one seemed to mind the cold except me who had just spent 6 months in the tropics!

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