It is the first of the Sixty6 Cookbook blogs - "The Cook Offs!"
Here we pick one game per day to feature and look at the game through the eyes of their national dishes, rather than predicted tactics and formations and ask the question...if this World Cup had to be decided via the hypothetical aspect of each team's national culinary delights, then who would come out on top?
The recipes are featured in the Sixty6 Unofficial World Cup Cookbook available from https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/448943 and coming soon to Google Books and Kindle.
The Line Ups - The Belgians
As stated in the cookbook, having mussels and chips as your national dish is pretty cool...well that's if you like seafood! For me it combines the always fashionable mussels with some classy home made skinny chips - a taste sensation indeed. Add to the mix some strong Belgian beer and its happy days.
The Line Ups - The Russians
Beetroot soup doesn't sound all that clever and if you spill it on the settee watching the match then you're in trouble, however there is more than meets the eye to the Borscht, which in fact is of Ukrainian origin, yet is a big part of Russian life...now that sounds familiar.
The Cook Off
The game kicks off and the Belgians are proving to be a tricky opponent, hiding in their shells, when the Borscht threatens to spill over the side of the bowl. The skinny chips threaten at set plays on the sofa, dipping their ends into the purple stew, however they come a cropper, covered in the dye of the beetroot, which the Belgians can't seem to shake off.
Its a battle right to the end, however neither side can seem to take advantage of each other's slip ups, as a late crusty bread substitution by the Belgians initially looks to mop up the Borscht, only for the Russians to counter attack with the same said loaf and spoil the party themselves dabbing up the fishy juices of the white wine sauce from the mussels.
In the end both sides settle for a point and meet in the player's bar afterwards for a bottle of Duvel and Vodka chaser.
Verdict: Score Draw
Headlines: "Russia aren't Beet as Belgians flex their Mussels"
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Here we pick one game per day to feature and look at the game through the eyes of their national dishes, rather than predicted tactics and formations and ask the question...if this World Cup had to be decided via the hypothetical aspect of each team's national culinary delights, then who would come out on top?
The recipes are featured in the Sixty6 Unofficial World Cup Cookbook available from https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/448943 and coming soon to Google Books and Kindle.
COOK OFF NO.1 - MOULES FRITES V BORSCHT SOUP
As stated in the cookbook, having mussels and chips as your national dish is pretty cool...well that's if you like seafood! For me it combines the always fashionable mussels with some classy home made skinny chips - a taste sensation indeed. Add to the mix some strong Belgian beer and its happy days.
The Line Ups - The Russians
Beetroot soup doesn't sound all that clever and if you spill it on the settee watching the match then you're in trouble, however there is more than meets the eye to the Borscht, which in fact is of Ukrainian origin, yet is a big part of Russian life...now that sounds familiar.
The Cook Off
The game kicks off and the Belgians are proving to be a tricky opponent, hiding in their shells, when the Borscht threatens to spill over the side of the bowl. The skinny chips threaten at set plays on the sofa, dipping their ends into the purple stew, however they come a cropper, covered in the dye of the beetroot, which the Belgians can't seem to shake off.
Its a battle right to the end, however neither side can seem to take advantage of each other's slip ups, as a late crusty bread substitution by the Belgians initially looks to mop up the Borscht, only for the Russians to counter attack with the same said loaf and spoil the party themselves dabbing up the fishy juices of the white wine sauce from the mussels.
In the end both sides settle for a point and meet in the player's bar afterwards for a bottle of Duvel and Vodka chaser.
Verdict: Score Draw
Headlines: "Russia aren't Beet as Belgians flex their Mussels"
For more World Cup culinary delights see - The Sixty6 Unofficial World Cup Cookbook
www.sixty6magazine.co.uk
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