NOT!

HA! Bet you thought this would be the entry where I tell you about Belgium Week 1, but alas, this is just about my lunch.
I figured leftovers are a cool lunch and it also sort of makes me useful; I can do laundry AND dishes AND ingest food before it goes bad and stinks up the fridge. Sort of like a household appliance you might say. Anyway so tortillas were here, several kinds of cheese were here, chorizo was here (although anything where you can actually see the fat chunks in the meat can’t be very healthy, but neither is half the other stuff I ate last week, so who am I to be picky).
For those of you who don’t know, food is a very important part of Belgian culture (so is beer, but I’ll save that for another ramble) and one of the foods they really make a big deal over here is cheese. Seriously, the cheese section in the smallest of supermarkets here is still three times as big as any grocery store I’ve ever seen in America (except maybe one of the brand new Giant Eagle stores where they have a whole section devoted to cheese, and even then, those sections aren’t bigger, just maybe almost equal to the cheese selections here). All kinds of cheese; Belgian cheese, French cheese, Dutch cheese (though I’ve been informed that Dutch cheese is mostly variations on Gouda)…pretty much any kind of cheese you could want and then some. So, there were a few varieties in the fridge, but none were open except the boursin. I like it, it’s sort of like a lighter, herbal/garlic flavored cream cheese (which I have noticed is not big here, American cheese is not even, like, considered to be a real cheese, oh and don’t let me forget to rant about iced tea) but I wanted to try something new. Last weekend we got some groceries and one was a cheese called ‘Camembert Coeur de Lion‘ (I think that’s what it said, though that might just be the brand so don’t take my word for it). This cheese is one of those wheels that’s cut into individual foil-wrapped wedges. So I took one and opened it and was greeted by a strangely broccoli-like odor. Ok, that threw me off. Especially because we got it last week. I mean, I assumed it was probably still good, but when your cheese smells like broccoli and you don’t know if that’s how it’s supposed to smell when it’s fresh, it makes you stop and think. But I’m stubborn and don’t like wasting food if I can help it so I took a bite. Hrm…the texture of jello, the smell of broccoli, and a taste somewhere between overcooked broccoli (y’know, when it sort of tastes like you are eating a fart) mixed with partially cooled Knox.

Let me tell you, Boursin on a fajita shell is really good. Add a banana and you have a very nice light lunch.

I’m still waiting to see if the garbage can spits the other cheese back out at me.