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Food
In Netherlands you can eat all kinds of food. There are several restaurants wich
only serve food from an other country. You will find many Chinese/Indonesian,
Italian and Greek restaurants. But there are also Japanese, South African, and so on.
Ofcourse there are also many fast food chains. If you go to a dutch fast food shop (snackbar),
(not an american one like McDonalds) ask for a 'broodje kroket' . It is great !
I don't think there are many restaurants with typical dutch menus.
Typical dutch would be: 'erwtensoep' (a thick green pie soup) or
'hutspot' (a mixture of carrots, onions and potatoes) but also 'pannenkoeken'
(pancakes, as a maincourse and not for breakfast) or the small version 'poffertjes'.
For typical dutch recipes in english visit this website: http://www.godutch.com/ |
broodje kroket A broodje kroket is not easy to make for yourself. But if you insist on trying to do so, it is the easiest to buy the kroket from the deepfreeze department in the supermarket. Just deepfry them for about 5-6 minutes and put them on a roll. Eat it with mustard.
Okay if you really want to.........
Make a ragout from meat, onion, butter, flour and stock. It must be a thick ragout. Ready to form into a cylinder shape, than roll it through an egg and then some breadcrumbs. Deepfry it. |
erwtensoep
Erwtensoep is a very thick piesoup. You can stick a spoon in it, and it won't fall over.
How to make it?
Boil 500 grams splitpies with 200 ml water, 300 grams pork meat. After 30 minutes put in a carrot in small pieces, leek, cellery, salt , peper and parsley. And boil untill it is done. Put in stock or water when it is getting too thick. At the end a smoked sausage is added.
(You also buy a can in the supermarket, a lot easier :-) )
It is sometimes served with rye bread and bacon. |
hutspot
Hutspot is not looking very appetizing, but it surely is. It is typical winter food. Good for hard working men...
Boil 500 grams of potatoes, 500 grams of onions and 500 grams carrots, with salt. When everything is done mix it together very well, stamp it untill it is a messy sticky mash. It must be served with gravy. Tastes good with fried bacon. |
Hollandse Nieuwe (herring) The 'Hollandse Nieuwe' (Dutch New) is the first herring that is caught in season, usually in May.
The herring has a minimum of 16% fat when it is gutted, ripened, salted and filleted. This herring is eaten raw, many take chopped raw onion with it. Traditional you open your mouth and the fish is lowered in head-first. |
Breakfast
Hagelslag (chocolat hail)is a typical dutch breakfast tradition.
While rest of the world use it as cake decoration, the dutch eat on their slice of bread.
Every year about 14 million kilo 'hagelslag' on about 850 million slices of bread. |
Dutch favorite 'sweet' is not sweet at all and is called drop.
Drop or as we will call it here licorice is a main addiction for dutch.
It exists for a long time, and is used in Holland for many ages. It started as a medicine pharmasists used it in their drinks and pills against cold.
Today licorice is consumed as confectionary. A lot of cough syrups however are still made on a licorice base.
How does it taste?
Well there are different tastes, from really salty to a kind of sweet. Altough licorice contains less sugar than normal confectionary. Colors are from black to brown. Shapes are from round to windmills or kittens. |
Drinks Where ever you go there are places where can buy something to drink. When the weather
is good you will find lots of people sitting outside bars drinking coffee or something else.
It is a great way to watch people when you are enjoying your drink.
Coffee (koffie) is usually sold per cup and free refills are not very well known. Almost always
you will get a cookie with your coffee. This is also true when you tea. Which is served
without milk, but often you have a choice of varieties. Several teabags are served with hot water.
Although our southern neighbours (Belgium) are famous for it (and that is right) i think we have
some good beers. Also some great liquors are from dutch origin. The 'jenever' is known all over the world. |
Heineken Heineken is probably our most famous beer. It is sold all over the world in the green export bottle. But here it is sold in a brown bottle just like all the other beers. |
Amstel Another big brand is Amstel. Sold in over 75 countries around the world. And brewed under license in many countries too.
The lager is a classic beer of the Pilsener type. |
Amstel is also the brewery wich brews the typical dutch 'oud bruin', a dark
brown beer with a caramel flavor and a sweet taste. 'Oud bruin' means: old brown.
Old coming from the old method (the top fermenting method) to make beer.
And brown comes from its color obviously. The sweet taste is from natural sugar. |
Grolsch But there are more breweries. Grolsch has many products from normal lager
to the special 'Het Kanon'. |
A special beer for the winter from Grolsch is 'Wintervorst' wich has a double meaning.
Vorst is the word for king but also for freezing weather. |
Gulpener Gulpener is a brewery in Gulpen,Limburg. They brew a lot of special beers.
The 'Korenwolf' is a rodent that is almost extinct. There are a few in Limburg that is
why they named this beer after it. |
Dommelsch Another great dutch pilsener.Dommelsch was first brewed in 1744.
All Dommelsch beers are brewed with pure water from the brewery's own sources. |
Hertog Jan Hertog Jan is bottom fermented pils with a goldencolor, a full body and bitter aftertaste. The alcohol content is 5% vol. |
oranjeboom The Oranjeboom brewery is in business since 1528.
The premium pilsener has an alcohol content of 5% vol. |
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JessH Wed Jul 18, 2007 06:09 UTC
This page is a superb introduction to life in the Netherlands... well done! I really enjoyed reading your tips, and learnt a lot of new facts :-) Have a lovely day, and thanks for sharing / Jess | VeronicaG Wed Nov 23, 2005 20:09 UTC
The Netherlands are beautiful--I liked the castle alot! THANKS! | catnl Wed Oct 12, 2005 05:35 UTC
great travelogues here, didnt read them before... fijne week nog | IceBear7 Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:21 UTC
fantastic page, great info and pictures! |
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