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.
Every time when we go to the Netherlands, I love going to a local bakery or grocery store with a bakery to get a “vlaai”. The ones where they put together a whole one with variety of different kinds of ”vlaai”. Unfortunately we have to wait months, sometimes years to get that opportunity to visit… Read More Limburgse Vlaai, traditional recipes to make at home.
This is a classic Dutch cake or cookie. It is more like a flat cupcake, really. It will catch your eye if you go to a Dutch grocery store and browse through the isle with all the cookies and other pastries. They are the ones with the bright pink top. Unfortunately, we’re not able to… Read More Roze koeken, how to make these Dutch pink cakes
The toughest part of being an expat is to not go to a local store and buy all the food you want from your home country. Especially when they bring back childhood memories. “Sinterklaas” is one of those traditions where the Dutch have a ton of delicious baked goods and sweets. But living in the… Read More How to make Dutch Sinterklaas treats at home?
The warm weather is almost gone. Yessss, I can use my oven again! When it is so warm and humid outside, I’m not really in the mood to cook or even eat hot food. The leaves are falling and the mornings are a little chilly. Friends and family are connecting me to places where we… Read More 20 most popular Dutch Comfort Food Recipes for the Fall
At my work the other day, our subject was about our 2018 Trip to Amsterdam. We talked mainly about food, but many sentences contained the words “tiny” and “cute”. I have never looked at my home country that way. What is it that the Netherlands is often labeled as tiny and cute? Okay, yes, true,… Read More The Netherlands: tiny and cute in so many ways!
I just read an article that the Dutch do NOT have a typical Dutch cuisine. I mean, you will NOT find dishes somewhere and you will say: “Ah, that’s a typical Dutch dish!” It is obvious with Italian, Mexican, Greek or Chinese cuisine. But not so much with the Dutch. I’ve noticed that a lot… Read More How to make “Bitterballen” and “Kroketten” at home.
Winters in Iowa are cold. Two years ago we had a polar vortex. I’ve never heard of a polar vortex before. But boy, THAT was cold!!! Temperatures were below 40 C with wind chill. This week will be brutal too, just -20 C (without wind chill). I say, it is time for some super easy,… Read More The best Dutch Winter Recipes
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”!
