Near Maastricht. Definitely my favourite spot all around.

Dozens of perches, pikes… and the scenery is lovely.

Truely a beautiful place

Tried to make karaage today. Dipped in the delicious soy sauce based sauce.

I still prefer the Korean version though.

Tough step this one. Their are imperfections here and there but poorly accessible and hopefully inconsequential given we will tile over.

The pump

Now is time for some panicky wait time. I’m really hoping I did not forget anything critical. If everything goes to plan we’ll be 4 to man the gigantic pump I requested and reel the cement mix in place. I have some shovels, rakes and I rented a vibrating ruler to help the finish.

weather is back to seasonal normals at around 25 after too many weeks over 30+.

Still I’m pretty sure I’m forgetting something.

It’s that time of the month. Chicken and dashi based broth shoyu ramen style. Kids were delighted.

I’m not sure I’m so much a fan of this. Maybe the recipe isn’t the best there is but it felt not that creamy and lacked acidity despite my attempts to adapt with some more apple cider vinegar.

Damn :(

Step by step :)

I now have one last water evacuation to place where the exterior faucet is and the. I can lay the metal wire mesh.

Saw this recipe at some point on a Korean cooking yt channel and I wanted to try it since I love miso.

It was a banger. This chicken will be hard to top.

I had a fun time today, tracking those babies.

At the request of kid #1 we did spring rolls for dinner. This time I got one of the kiddo to roll his own rolls and they actually looked fine.

Some with shrimps and most fully veggie.

And with large quantities of peanut butter sauce.

With rice, cucumber and kimchi :)

I had some eggplant laying around so I made them in a side with a miso glaze.

Today time was in short supply with my partner visiting customers and me experiencing full speed managerial bullshit so I put together a simple curry.

After an eternity using a laser and making sure we have a slope of 1cm per meter we now have the base layer done :) If I understand correctly I now need to rent a machine to compact everything tightly before putting the visqueen layer and the armature.

It’s been a while since I could cook due to the horrific weather here in Belgium the last weeks. A quick meal to resume the cooking adventure :)

I'm trying the Loops thing :)

Ca va tout le monde?

This was on my bucket list ; playing with a mini excavator.

Though the actual work was done by my step bro

Next I’ll do the form and order some lill stones to prep the surface, some steel reinforcement and put all in place before getting some concrete.

Today my son was having his birthday party and he requested ramen.

These are basic soy sauce ramen with the usual egg, porc and veg toppings.

Took a while to make these but worth the time given how they were appreciated by the kids :)

I wanted something more visual than usual.

The zucchini was super easy and only took 30sec of blanching before assembly.

The chicken was cooking sous-vide style

Then I briefly grilled it

And made the sauce using my frozen chicken fond

And voila :)

At some point I’ll need to buy additional plates because it’s becoming quite repetitive to always plate using the same…