friday favourites #3

This week I have been liking… Soul Food. Went out with my Salvation Army colleagues to “Chicken ‘n Waffles” for um, chicken and waffles 🙂 Although actually coming from Belgium I’m a little over waffles, so I went for the chicken, mac n’ cheese and corn bread. Yum! Golf. I am still very much the…

friday favourites

Another week of things I like… Mexican food. Oh wow, I love it, and there’s just no good Mexican restaurants in Brussels that I’ve found. My colleagues at the SA invited me out for lunch yesterday at a little Mexican hole in the wall and I was in heaven! Planning trips. We’re making the most…

friday favourites

My favourite things this week… Grilling food on our“lanai”. Nothing tastes quite so good as grilled courgette and aubergine (um, wait, zucchini and eggplant 🙂 accompanied with a glass of chilled white wine on a hot evening. Williams – Sonoma. We discovered this shop at the weekend and I am in love. If I lived…

more reading

I’ve got into a habit of reading on the metro to work. It’s not long – only six stops which takes about ten minutes. But I am a fast reader so I can get through quite a lot of pages in that short time, and I love the feeling of escaping into a book for…

Jane Austen and the Bible

For the last month I’ve been working on some teaching for the church I go to on the characters of Mary and Martha in the bible. These are the sisters of Lazarus, who is more famously known for being raised from the dead by Jesus. These lovely ladies take up just three short chapters of…

holiday reads

I took three books with to Denmark and read two of them which is quite a good sign – I had enough time to read, which I love, but I was clearly not bored and needing something to do! The two I read were both great, which is nice because when I was in Morocco…