We begin in the early 1900s in Brussels, where up and coming politician Paul Deroulard argues heatedly with his wife Marianne over what appears to be a disagreement over his perceived anti-Catholic reform policies, and - HEY! Wake up! It gets better!Īnyway, Marianne flees and runs to the stairs, but trips and falls, apparently breaking her neck this is all witnessed by Paul’s mother. That’s right, kids: it’s a FLASHBACK EPISODE! It’s not an origin story per se, but it does provide a fascinating glimpse into how A Belgian became Our Belgian. The trip to the city occasions Poirot to recount the tale of one of his old cases as a member of the Belgian police, the death of Paul Deroulard – ruled to be death by natural heart attack, but which Poirot has long since been convinced was murder. Poirot and Japp are visiting Brussels, where Our Chief Inspector is due to receive an honor from the Belgian police for his assistance over the years. Not for plot-related reasons, mind you: it’s a fairly standard “pick which one of the dinner guests poisoned the chocolates” joint ( oh, that old chestnut?), but a few things set this one apart as one of my favorite episodes of the series.
NEW! Santa Belly & Melting Snowman Doughnuts (Kris.
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NEW! Orange & Cranberry Danish (Waitrose).Choceur Salted Caramel & White Chocolate Almonds (.Luxury Chocolate Stollen with Jamaican Rum (LIDL).Easy Peasy Speculoos No-Bake Cheesecake Recipe.Mega Dutch Snack Review: Chocomel, White Chocolate.NEW! Guylian Caramel Belgian Chocolate Bar.Otherwise, if you fancy reading another opinion on these chocolatey stollen bites please pop on over to One Treat's review. If you're a fellow stollen lover you might also be interested in my review of Morrisons' Bakery stollen cookies. They're just not going to tick the stollen box if that's what you're after this Christmas. I've made plenty of complaints in this post when in actual fact I'm rather enjoying them. Īs far as fruity, marzipan, chocolatey squares go, they're rather good. Perhaps this is could be explained by the delicacy of the yeasted dough, maybe it's because less than 50% of the bites are made up of it, or possibly it's just because ALDI and LIDL can't seem to make stollen to save their life. The trouble came with the stollen, which should always be the star of the show, but was sadly completely lost against the more dominant almond and chocolate components. My tastebuds then acknowledged the marzipan: soft, chewy and almondy -just as it should be. The 350g box cost £1.99 and contained roughly 12 bites.īiting into it I could really taste the (plain) chocolate, which wasn't the best quality but was perfectly edible and a far cry from Kinnerton's nasty calendar stuff. ALDI soon suckered me in with the exciting idea of one of my favourite Christmas treats covered in one of my favourite everyday treats. But then I saw these new chocolate covered stollen bites. Both LIDL and Bahlsen are German companies who I imagined would work equal wizardry with stollen!įollowing the brick-like experience with LIDL, I thought my German discount supermarket stollen buying days were over.
Last year I reviewed the epitome of the second type (which came from LIDL) and a beautifully fluffy version from Bahlsen. Some manufacturers master the lightness of the dough, whilst others create something that's best use would be best utilised as a window smashing implement. There's a huge discrepancy between great and goddamn awful stollen though. I'm quite glad it's only sold seasonally because otherwise I'm sure I'd eat too much and grow sick of it (or maybe not, I've never reached that point with chocolate, peanut butter or ice cream after all). The German delicacy of buttery, cake-like bread filled with almondy marzipan and dried fruits is sheer genius. I hope that stollen is one of your Christmas staples too.
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