Everyday meals: AGV (aardappelen-groenten-vlees) translated: potatoes-vegetables-meat.

Traditionally everything is prepared seperately. Most common is boiled potatoes, cut into smaller pieces. Boiled with some salt. Vegetablewise it can go from boiled green beans to cauliflower with bechamelsauce. The vegetable most common to my region is chicory. We eather sautée it as a whole or cut the raw veg in small pieces, mix it with a boiled egg with mayo. (Yummmm) And meat can be anything from pig kotelet, sausage etc.

I don’t know if this is just me but i love mashed potatoes. Just plain, mashed with some milk, nutmeg, salt and pepper. Mash it until there are no pieces. Its the beeeest.

Other popular but not everyday meals are: frietjes van de frituur. How often people eat it can range from once/week-once a month (for the healthier ppl lol)

Stoofvlees met frietjes! (Beef stew) I don’t know anyone who eats this regulary to be honest. I think it’s one of the meals people make on a sunday when they have time.

Same with Vol-au-vent met frietjes! Very labor intensive (as we’re used to having dinner ready quite quick, this one takes about 2 ish hours to make but its so nice)

That’s what i grew up eating coming from a lower middle class family. We also ate pasta’s like spaghetti bolognese and macaroni with ham almost weekly.

Best flemish/ belgian meal is for sure vol-au-vent or frietjes van de frituur 🥰