I’m so happy that this soup is so easy to make and I don’t have to get any complicated, hard to find ingredients from the Netherlands. Just a delicious filling and healthy, hearty winter soup. The Dutch Split Pea Soup! For Americans it must be a very strange combination, but the Dutch crepe-like pancakes can… Read More A perfect winter meal, Split Pea Soup with Dutch pancakes.
It is winter time here in Iowa. It is not only winter here, but also in the rest of the USA. There was even snow in Texas and Malibu. They probably didn’t know WHAT was going on! Cold winter days bring me back to Dutch comfort food. I bet we have something like that. I’ve… Read More One of my favorite Dutch winter recipes:”Hutspot”
In the Netherlands around 4pm we like to have our “koffie tijd”. Or Time for Coffee. The time where the kids will get an afternoon snack and for the adults it means, a cup of coffee with something sweet. Around the winter times, the slower dull months after New Years, we need some extra yumminess,… Read More An unusual 7 layer winter pie, the Dutch “Ski Vlaai”!
My daughter asked me the other day, if she could make “Poffertjes” all by herself. These tiny pancakes a real Dutch traditional treat and I bet, if I ask my kids what the best Dutch treat is, they’ll probably say: “POFFERTJES!” What are “Poffertjes”? In January 2018 I went on a trip to Amsterdam with… Read More Poffertjes, you will love these traditional tiny Dutch pancakes.
