Fancy Food Friday

Oh, hey look! It's actually Friday this time! Bonus point for me!

I should probably devote my posts to something other than food....like our day-trip to Brugge a couple weekends ago or how I missed the coronation of the 7th king of Belgium because of my ridiculous insomnia problems or how we've booked flights down to Venice and Rome for my last full weekend here or that we're headed to Paris in the morning....

I'll post the stories and pictures later. Promise. 

Unfortunately, I do not have any pictures from our dinner Monday night. We were invited to dine at the house of our boss's colleague Patrizia, who has been volunteering her time to help us with our project. She and her husband are from Italy and are some of the nicest and most well-educated people I've ever met. Being Italian, of course, the "small pasta dinner" they promised was not exactly small.

We started with wine glasses full of apple juice, fizzy water, and regular water (not all at once, obviously). The first course was a delicious spaghetti plate.

Next, Andrea dished each of us a scoop of cold mashed potato, tuna, and caper salad 

as well as a delicious Greek cucumber and garlic salad. 

Once we finished with that (and we were already starting to feel full...), 

they brought out the bread and ratatouille. 

Dessert consisted of a raspberry chocolate cream cheese tort (cake) and a chocolate mousse tort,

and then we finished off the evening sipping mint herbal tea and having pleasant conversation. 

Such a lovely evening with such lovely people.

Besides that amazing meal, I mostly just eat potatoes. 

Except this blasted, muggy, sticky, Europe-doesn't-believe-in-air-conditioning, energy-draining heat has led me to discover something magical. 

We've been sticking everything we possibly can into the itty-bitty 5" x 6" x 12" freezer box in the top of our tiny refrigerator. So one day, I stuck a little cup of peach yogurt in there. A couple hours later, I pulled it out and scooped it onto a warm Belgian waffle dripping with gooey apricot jam. 

YOU GUYS!!!! 

Heaven. 

Absolute perfection. 

And dare I say it, better than Nutella. 

So this is my current obsession/daily, after-work snack. 

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. :)