Dutch cuisine

I like zuur kool with Hema worst in the winter.

Angelsergio wrote:

I like zuur kool with Hema worst in the winter.

Any photo so that we can see what it is? 

Or the ingredients in the dish maybe?

kenjee wrote:

Angelsergio wrote:

I like zuur kool with Hema worst in the winter.

Any photo so that we can see what it is? 

Or the ingredients in the dish maybe?

I you must know Kenjee; its mashed potatoes with sauerkraut. with smoked sausage .
You cook the potatoes and sauerkraut in their own pan, then mash the potatoes and mix it with the sauerkraut.
The smoked sausage needs only to heat up a bit. Very tasty en you can vary if  you like.
The most famous is to put in a oven dish; first the sauerkraut (if you desire with raisins), then the sausage and some pineapple and on top the mashed potatoes. But some bread crumbs and butter on the potatoes and put in the oven until it comes golden brown:

I am not very fond of the original Dutch cuisine because its to simple and has not much taste (farm food: the farmers needed long time ago food who filled their stomach and the don't care very much about taste and it must be quickly prepared).

But I like very much fish and in the Netherlands is plenty of it. One of my favorites is the lekkerbek:



a slice of cod covered in a batter and then fried with a good dip.

And very famous is the hearing or haring:



Of course with a good amount of onions 

The only food on your forum thats real Dutch is Stampot, Mashed potatoes with anything mixed in. Zuur kool or Sauerkraut is German and Polish and is not that well known in Holland. Cabbage doesn't grow here easily except Gruenkohl, Winter cabbage which you only can eat after a deep frost. The food you see now a days, here in Holland has hardly any resemblance with Dutch traditional cooking. I can only guess that very little has been handed on and in the last two Centuries the actual Dutch people were poorer than poor. Especially if you compare the net Gross per head to the rest of Central Europe or the US (except for the last 50 years)
Cooking is not something thats been handed on in modern society, the Government prefers to push prepared foods rather than helping their own farmers to grow a variety of staple foods and than be able to sell them. So sadly there are very few local foods left. Endive is one that has survived, "Haring" is debatable, because Germany and the Northern countries always had the bigger  catch on them. And Asparagus, which never really came to be eaten by the Dutch because they needed to rely on the export.
So luckily all the Dutch dependancies brought in their own local foods which we now look at as quasi-Dutch, but anybody who has travelled a bit will notice the diminished quality of their own produce in this country far from their home.
Even in the 1960's most people had to do with a little bit of grain and what they grew or fished themselves. If they were lucky they had some domestic animals, thats why pancakes are still  around, but as you see with cheap "Stroop" (Molasses) rather than fine honey. It was hard life.

nice the best fish I found on alber cyb market .

This sums up my experience: http://uncloggedblog.com/2013/07/23/six … msterdam/. Eet smakelijk!

Dutch food - mmmmmm, lekker.

My wife's Dutch, so I've never really experienced anything else for the past 30 years wherever we've lived in the world (we've travelled a lot).  There are some cultural issues; lot of pork dishes in Holland.  Food is food, it's how its prepared is different; most like it, some don't.

That said, I don't like raw fish. 

Modern Dutch kitchen is a bit more than stampot boerekool and such. One can find many shops and restaurants that have an international allure in every city . Thai kitchen, Indonesian kitchen * (*cheap), Chinese food* (*cheap), Indian food etc. I have a weakness for all that is spicy and exotic and in the Netherlands you can find it all.  I love to buy real Turkish olives and fresh Turkish pickles, sausages, feta cheese and oriental spices such as turmeric, curry powder, coriander, sesame oil.
In some cities one finds Vietnamese restaurants, Greek restaurants and Japanese restaurants ($ usually costly!)
There are still newcomers.
We Dutch say: voor elk wat wils (means 'there is something to be found for everybody') One can even get Asian Food home service in many cities! Have a look here!