Our daughter has had her best friend visiting from Belgium for the last several days so we have been eating out a lot. Her friend is originally from the Los Angeles area and when he comes to visit she and he like to visit all the ethnic cuisines that he doesn’t have in his local area around Ghent. We have been eating Mexican, Vietnamese, and our favorite, Ethiopian, cuisines while he has been visiting.

This yummy platter with various dishes is served on a bed of injera which is an Ethiopian bread made from the ancient grain, teff. Various things on the platter are spicy lentils, split peas, salad, greens, a combo of potatoes, cabbage, and carrots, plus two meat dishes of lamb, and chicken. A basket of rolled up pieces of injera are served and you tear off pieces to grab mouthfuls from the platter. No knives and forks!

It is super delicious and we had a good time sharing dinner and reminiscing about previous times we had been there. It’s been 4 years since our last visit what with the pandemic and the fact that it is about 25 miles away but it is such a treat that we want to go more often.

Hopefully we will get back to our regular cooking at home regime on Monday.