Weekend in Review

Friday - Watched Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Fell asleep to a horrible ending of a movie. Let's recast it with maybe Kevin Spacey as the strange guy, Ben Affleck as the husband (because Ben can made any role better), and get rid of the ugly chick who plays the sister...oh yeah and re-write the ending. Oh yeah, Red Truck wine is horrible.

Saturday - Woke up and cooked some breakfast with Laurie. I must say, we are a kick-ass team of cooks. Iron Chef style. I whipped up some Eggs Benny, my favorite breakfast dish, and since Laurie doesn't like anything runny, or raw-eggy, a spinach and mushroom omlette for her.
Are we Emeril or what?


Since we planned on nothing for the day, or rather we planned on a nice relaxing, magazine reading, music listening, couch day, we (read: I) decided to finally duplicate one of my favorite meals I've ever had. The original meal was at a place in Brussels, Belgium called The Belga Queen and reads as follows:
Meatballs as in Liège (sauce based on a meat stock and pear/apple syrup), cone of fries BQ, lettuce with beer vinegar and virgin olive oil

Now, this "Liege" or rather "Sirop De Liege", upon investigation. Is one of those traditional, only in Belgium, super-top-secret only made by one company, never homemade type of things. (see: website). Phooey. 50$ to have it shipped to me? no thanks. but it can't be that hard right?.....

So scouring the internet, even a pro like myself, proved difficult for a recipe. However, once I started searching in other languages, something came up. A few favors from some foreign speaking friends, and I "sorta" "thought" I had "maybe" the start of a recipe? But it was merely a crap shoot. But, what the hell, it sounded simple, why not give it a try. The recipe called for about 20lbs of fruit, pears and apples and a couple of handfuls of dates....with a total cooking process time of ~9 HOURS! ahhh. Must be good. Well, here are some process pictures, and here are some result pictures. I say it (the sauce) came out EXACTLY as I remember, even better. Out of 20lbs of fruit and 9 hours, it only yielded a jar of sauce/syrup.








Next time around, I'll mix the sauce with the meatball stock a little more as it was almost sweeter than Laurie!

While this was cooking, we had a blast listening to music and catching up on the stack of magazines that have been collecting! We also watched The River Wild - OK flick.

Sunday - Homemade waffles and some scrambled eggs for breakfast, again, tag-team iron chef style! Shopping at Bridgewater mall, Oil change, and bike show to collect a trophy.