National dish of Holland?

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Bitterballs!!! Thats some serious haute cuisine

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xoax4X0KwQg

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:47 pm

@ MyMyselfAndI
That would be boerenkool stamp and rookworst Laughing

The cabbage is called Kale in English here and just putting it in the freezer for a night will give it the right taste. You can grow it yourself if it doesn't get too warm/dry where you are.
BTW the French call it chicken feed and won't eat it Laughing

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Quote:

What do you call a group of dairy longshoremen who put on white uniforms, don straw hats with colored ribbons, and carry wheels of cheese to and from a 14th Century weighhouse on wooden barrows suspended from their shoulders?
In Alkmaar, they're referred to as "cheese porters" (or the Dutch equivalent), and members of their various guilds have been helping to bring cheese buyers and sellers together for at least 600 years.
Today's Alkmaar Cheese Market is more show than substance, if only because Dutch cheesemaking has been a mass-market industrial operation since the 1960s. In The Cheese Primer, Steven Jenkins says of Edam and Gouda cheese:

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:21 am

Geez, Wayne, I am only a PM away, no need to open a full thread Laughing

If your friend would like to try some Dutch dishes, tell him to come and visit me when he is here. I would be happy to cook for him Laughing

Here is a nice linky one of the nice Eater folks gave me once (BCtje?? Donneke? Or was it you, Reap?) EDIT: or the ever clever Ook? Wink

http://thomer.com/howtos/eat_hagelslag.html

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:12 am

I think it was Ook.

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 1:12 pm

^^^^ bill2

Never thought of putting it in the freezer overnight. Will try that later this year and forward the tip to all my Dutch friends here who have the same problem as me. Us southern Swedes eat it for Christmas but never at any other time of the year. My Dutchy was very amused when we went to Sweden the first Christmas together as kale just a normal winter dish in Holland. Main difference is that Swedes it just the kale and we don't mix it with mashed potatoes.

Why am I hungry now?!

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:18 pm

Actually, forget about meals, the best stuff here is the candy Very Happy

Although most foreigners do not go for salty liqorice or tum tum (no idea why - great stuff!), you can have a nice pick out of stroopwafels, hagelslag, eierkoeken, tompoezen (Hema's are great!) or try some local specialties Very Happy

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:22 pm

Tommo, are you taking notes at all? Laughing

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:26 pm

@MyMyselfAndI,
Just the sugars in there that have to be broken down by the frost to make the taste, you can store it for months in the freezer too, just make sure it's rather dry when you freeze it.
But.... no matter what I tried I never get the perfect taste of back home, close but just a bit different, must be the wrong smoked bacon for the kaantjes or a sweeter kind of pieper we have here. As the deer eat more kale then me, I gave up growing it. Laughing

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:32 pm

@Bill : now I understand where the english name for boerenkool originates from .. Smile

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 06 Feb 2008 Posts: 720

F the food Dutch People are nice Smile

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:17 pm

@dutchbait ^^ Question

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:34 am

^kale struikjes after the deer's visits .. Smile

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 10:31 am

Whatever you eat in the netherlands: If persephone has cooked it, do not eat it....no matter how often she tells you: "Hey, this is supposed to make your lips turn blue" or "Yes, this is supposed to be still moving and making funny sounds" Laughing

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 10:34 am

We like our fish raw, BC, it is supposed to be that way Twisted Evil

My cooking is excellent for your immune system by the way. What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. If I ever opened a restaurant, that would be the motto Very Happy

Herring with onions is the best by the way Very Happy

Although the season is pretty much over, it is worth another trip next year Very Happy

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 5:27 pm

persephone wrote:

What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

the good old RPG motto, pass those XP along Very Happy

there is a second part to this though:

"what kills you leaves you dead"

[disclaimer: this comment is in no way related to the cooking skills of living 419 Eater members]

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:22 pm

@dutchbait
That would be nice if they would eat it that way, I just plant a bit more then, first it never grows cause they eat the first leaves and then what goes up must come down. You could call that fertilizer for the next year and the potatoes do appreciate it, but it does nothing for the kale without leaves.
The only things they leave alone, piepers en juin, so that's what I grow now. Nope they dig up the carrots after eating the green on top so I can't even make a nice hutspot Laughing

They do make a great jerky though Wink

What! NO! never!, but my native son in law can hunt them all year and he likes some help cleaning them. But that doesn't scare them a way and there are too many to solve the problem that way and then how much jerky can you eat Laughing

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:37 pm

@ Bill: I like that way of farming: sow kale and reap jerky. Who needs hutspot?

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:24 pm

dutchbait wrote:

Tommo, are you taking notes at all?

Oh yes! I copied and sent the comprehensive post from irish to my friends a few days ago. I think they are still digesting it.

I never knew Dutch cuisine would provoke such a response. Almost as much as trying to name five famous Belgians. Laughing

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:47 pm

*sigh* After all the culinary gems the (former) dutch members posted, you mailed your friends with some outdated wiki trash Irish provides?

Mods, please lock this topic. I'm done.

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:53 pm

@dutchbait
That's just real Dutch, seeing a profit where nobody else does Wink

But I like variety in my food.

I agree ^, lets talk about those 6 famous Belgians now Laughing

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Tintin

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:34 pm

Yeah Kuifje, that's a long time ago I heard about him, Herge is gone, but the books are still running?
My favorite Belgian Pauwels Kwak and only the connoisseur will now know what I'm talking about Wink

But I do miss it.

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Jeanne Deckers (The Singing Nun)

Dominique", Laughing

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:53 pm

Suckse & Whipse? Jerom, Prof. Barabas, Aunt Sidonia, Lambik. That makes 6. Back to dutch cuisine. Laughing

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