As indicated in the famous
painting by Vincent van Gogh (the aardappeleters, meaning "potato
eaters"), the
main ingredients in old-fashioned Dutch dinners is potatoes, usually
accompanied by meat and boiled
vegetables. The Dutch traditionally don't use very sharp spices and are
very fond of pouring gravy into
everything. The Dutch have however always been internationally
orientated and nowadays you can expect to
find meals varying from Italy to the Orient (Conimex)
and from China to Africa on Dutch dinnertables,
especially amongst younger people.The consumption of dairy products is
extremely high, which, according
to some scientists, accounts for the high average height of Dutch men
and women.
Below
is listed some recipes of typical Dutch food which you should certainly
experience
VLA
A thick sweet milk
pudding which is similar to English custard, made mainly from milk and
offered in a
variety of tastes ranging from vanilla and chocolate to strawberry, RECIPE
POFFERTJES (TINY PANCAKES)
Poffertjes are like pancakes but
smaller and thicker. They taste sweeter and....better.Usually they are served with powdered
sugar, syrup
and butter, RECIPE
HAGELSLAG
(CHOCOLATE HAIL)
Traditionally
lots of chocolate-snippers which the Dutch sprinkle on their bread.
Nowadays it comes in quite a number of chocolate
varieties MORE
INFORMATION
BESCHUIT MET
MUISJES (RUSK WITH MICE)
Literally
meaning
"mice", it falls in the same category as hagelslag and is also used as
bread-spread. Of course the ingredients do not consist of an actual
mouse, although the blue & white muisjes do resemble very small
mice crawling around on your slice of bread. Traditionally the blue
& white muisjes are served on beschuit
(rusk) to celebrate the birth of a child. Although now available in
different varieties (like gestampte
muisjes (crushed mice) it is essentially made from anise with
a sugar coating. MORE
INFORMATION
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