What's Cookin'?

On the menu today: chicory wrapped in ham with cheese sauce, in the oven, in Belgium we call it 'hespenrollekes'! Yummie...

Ingredients (for 3 persons):
-chicory (6 to 8 pieces)
-slices of ham (1 slice per piece of chicory)
-500 ml cheese sauce (this is a bit much, but you just make as much as you like, I happen to looove cheese sauce)
-grated cheese (100 gr)

Step 1: Bake or cook the pieces of chicory until they're well-done (I prefer baking, because when cooked the pieces of chicory hold a lot of water and the cheese sauce becomes watery as well...). This step takes a while, I'd say approximately an hour. When you can easily pierce through the chicory with a fork, then it's done... Meanwhile also pre-heat the oven.

Step 2: Heat up the cheese sauce or make it yourself. When you make it yourself, use milk, loads of grated cheese, a bit of flour for binding, pepper, salt and other spices you like.

Step 3: Wrap the ham around the chicory

Step 4: Put the wrapped chicory in an oven dish, pour over the cheese sauce, cover with (loads of) grated cheese and put in the oven. Set the oven on grill.

Step 5: Watch the dish get a beautiful goldbrown crust ;)

Step 6: Get it out of the oven when it has that beautiful crust I was talking about. Scoop on your plate, take as much of the cheese sauce as you like and enjoy!

I love the dish on it's own, but it also goes well together with potatoes (baked or cooked)

Bon appétit!

XO, Aline

Wonderful Wednesday Memories

I had a Wonderful Wednesday! Slept in, watched some tv, got ready and got jumped into a friend's car to go to a dinner party slash sleepover. It's been a long time since I'd done a REAL sleepover. You know, matrasses in the living room, a thousand pillows and blankets, watching movies and laughing your ass of until the middle of the night... Yeah, that kind of high school-esque sleepover! Don't care if it's "childish", I really had the best time! This whole week has been such a great vacation so I couldn't be happier, especially since I just found out my proposal for my thesis has been accepted!

We started the evening with some homemade, DELICIOUS, lasagna. We all had like 2 or 3 plates because it was just that good! I really love pasta, and I think I could eat tomatosauce with just about anything ;)

After stuffing ourselfs with the incredible lasagna, we made chocolate moelleux and paired it with vanilla icecream. I was so full, but it was just too damn good to leave it on the plate!

When dessert was over, we remodeled the living room into sleepover-paradise...

Step 1

Step 2!

When we were done with that we moved ourselves and the wine to that cosy place. We felt a bit nostalgic, so we watched Cruel Intentions, and it must be said: Ryan Philippe is really just too hot in that movie ;)

Anyways, I had a great time and now I'm gonna get ready for another sleepover. This time at my amazing boyfriend's house!

Love
XO Aline