Belgian Waffels.

I suddenly felt like baking waffles. So I did :-)
These are very easy, and very tasty ! Do give them a try...

Belgian Waffles

Ingredients:
• 5 dl milk
• 300 g plain flour (or gluten-free flour, which also works !)
• 100 g butter (good quality)
• 75 g white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 10 g baking powder
• 2 packs vanilla sugar (8 g each)
• a little salt

Melt the butter in a pan, but make sure it doesn't get 'brown'. You can melt it in the milk. That's how I did it, it 's safer and easy.
Mix the flour and the baking powder, make a little hole in the middle. Add the sugar, vanilla sugar, eggs and salt. Mix well.
Slowly add the milk and butter. Keep stirring till you get a nice even dough, without lumps.
Let the dough rest for about 15 min. Warm your waffle iron in the mean time. Add some dough and let it bake for a couple of minutes (depends on your iron and stuff. For me, 4 minutes was excellent).

Red Chocolate Cupcakes

I wanted to try and make some Red Velvet kind of Chocolate Cupcakes. Unfortunatly, it didn't work out as well as I wanted to, because of the food colouring I used (the only kind I could get my hands on over here), and because of the melted chocolate (hence the batter was too dark to show its red color). But they do taste fine, so ... that 's the most important thing of a cupcake, isn 't it ? :-)
I kind of experimented with this recipe... It 's based on something I got from the internet.
(source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamieanne/2465234474/)

Red Chocolate Cupcakes

Ingredients:
• 125g butter, softened
• 200g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 300g plain flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 tbs cocoa powder
• 1 cup milk
• 100g dark chocolate, melted
• Red food coloring (lots of it !)

Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 160°C.

Place the butter and sugar in the bowl and beat until light and creamy.
Gradually add the eggs and beat well. Sift over most of the flour, baking powder and cocoa and beat until combined.
Fold through the milk, the rest of the flour, and stir in the chocolate. Mix well.
Spoon the mixture into muffin tins lined with paper pattycases.
Bake for 10-12 minutes or until cooked when tested with a skewer. Cool on wire racks.

CousCous.

• 125 ml Bouillon (Herbs Or Vegetables)
• 2 Tablespoons Lemonjuice - If You Like That. You Can Leave it Out.
• 1 Yellow Paprika (Or Another Color, if You Like those Better)
• 75 g Couscous (Or Quinoa --> Gluten-free !)
• 1 Red Onion
• 100 g Feta
• 6 Tablespoons Olive Oil
• 100 g Spinach
• Chilipowder (or Cayenne) and Garlic

Prepare the couscous with the bouillon: let the bouillon boil, and pour it over the couscous. Let it swell for about 6 minutes.
Make a dressing of the olive oil, garlic, lemon juice, chili powder, salt and pepper.
Shred the onion and add this to the dressing. Cut the paprika into small pieces. Add the paprika and spinach to the dressing. Mix well.
Scoop the couscous through the dressing and crumble the feta on top.