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?
It has been 2 years we haven’t seen Opa and Oma, 3 years was the last time I was in the Netherlands and 5 years for my kids. It is time we’re taking a trip to the Netherlands. This time it was a little dangerous, traveling during a pandemic is definitely more stressful. What to… Read More Our Trip to the Netherlands during a pandemic.
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!
To be more exact: “Limburgse Rijstevlaai” IfI could choose between the different pies at a Dutch birthday party, I would usually choose the “Rijstevlaai”….with whipped cream and shaved chocolate pieces on top! Scroll down for the recipe! Rice in a pie? You might be wondering why anyone would put rice in a pie. After all,… Read More How do you make a Dutch Rice Pie (Rijstevlaai) when you live abroad?
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”!
It is only November, but I’m already looking forward to the Holidays and to bake up a storm of yummy goodies! Especially the things you can NOT buy here! Oh, the house will smell so good!I am talking about these amazing Dutch spice bars filled with almond paste: “ Gevulde Speculaas”. Speculaas is kind of… Read More “Gevulde speculaas”, amazing Dutch treat for the Holiday season!
After making another loaf of sourdough bread and apple pie during this COVID-19 quarantine time, our oldest asked, if I could make more Dutch baked goods. What? You don’t like my sourdough bread? I dove deep into my memory of eating yummy Dutch baked goods, like apple cookies, “vlaai“, “bokkepootjes” and “boterkoek”. I might find… Read More “Boterkoek”, the delicious Dutch shortbread.
