{"id":1242,"date":"2010-07-17T02:47:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T09:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2010-07-17T02:47:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T09:47:38","slug":"a-day-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"“A day in Belgium”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Koko Black<\/p><\/div>\n

The first part of our “day in Belgium” was a trip to Koko Black, a very well known Melbourne chocolate shop and cafe.\u00c2\u00a0 Koko Black’s founding chocolatier was from Burges, Belgium bringing the Belgian chocolate heritage to Melbourne.\u00c2\u00a0 We ordered their famous hot chocolate and Belgian chocolate mousse.\u00c2\u00a0 The hot chocolate was the best we’ve tasted in Melbourne and the mousse…well how can you go wrong with chocolate mousse.<\/p>\n

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Belgian Hot Chocolate and Mousse<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

To continue the Belgian fun, for dinner we cooked the Belgium national dish, a Flemish beef stew made with beer called carbonnades flamande.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course Scott got a nice Chimay Grand Reserve\u00c2\u00a0 for the stew and for sipping while we cooked.\u00c2\u00a0 Accompanying the stew we made Flemish style Brussels sprouts, carrots, mashed potatoes, and a homemade beer bread.<\/p>\n

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Belgian Feast<\/p><\/div>\n

And of course for desert…more Belgian chocolate!<\/p>\n

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A few chocolates for home<\/p><\/div>\n

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chocolates!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first part of our “day in Belgium” was a trip to Koko Black, a very well known Melbourne chocolate shop and cafe.\u00c2\u00a0 Koko Black’s founding chocolatier was from Burges, Belgium bringing the Belgian chocolate heritage to Melbourne.\u00c2\u00a0 We ordered their famous hot chocolate and Belgian chocolate mousse.\u00c2\u00a0 The hot chocolate was the best we’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,55],"tags":[96,5,60,54,53],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-victoria-australia","tag-australia","tag-beer","tag-food","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}