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The Dutch Way of Life as Seen in Food

The Dutch no-nonsense attitude is also found in Dutch food. Dutch cuisine is not elaborate or refined. Lunch is often bread (open-faced sandwiches) with milk and/or coffee or tea, dinner is usually some meat, potatoes and vegetables. (I am not good at preparing meat so at my house we mostly have eggs instead of meat.) But there may be a nice snack at morning coffee or afternoon tea-time.
Hollandse kost -hear- Dutch home cooking, basic meals

[a loaf of bread]
een brood click to hear		 [slices of bread]
sneetjes brood click to hear
Een gesneden brood click to hear 2 - 'a sliced loaf of bread'
[slicing cheese] [slicing cheese] [slicing cheese]
kaas schaven click to hear 2
[preparing sandwiches]
brood smeren click to hear 2 (bolletjes, ham, boter, kaas) 		[lunch]
lunch (broodjes, melk, koffie)
[open-faced cheese sandwiches]
boterhammen met kaas		 [lunch: slices of bread with cheese, milk, coffee]
lunch: boterhammen met kaas, melk, koffie		 [eating herring: hold a herring by its tail, tilt your head back and let it slide into your mouth]
how to eat herring - haring click to hear

[two cups of tea with three snacks]
thee met ontbijtkoek, cake en mochi
pap
havermout
Brinta
hear 		'porridge'
an oats breakfast
(a breakfast brand)
oats breakfast recipe 		brood
broodje
bolletje
hear 		bread
~ sandwich
roll
baking bread 		kaas
ham
boter
hear 		cheese
ham
butter
melk
koffie
thee
hear 		milk
coffee
tea
volkorenmeel
wit meel
gist
water
hear 		wholewheat flour
white flour
yeast
water
zout
suiker
olijfolie
hear 		salt
sugar
olive oil
mengen
kneden
laten rijzen
bakken
hear - 2 		to mix
to knead
to let rise (to proof)
to bake
verbs
ontbijtkoek
cake (English)
hear 		~ ginger/spice cake recipe
~ banana bread recipe
kaas schaven
brood smeren
hear 		to slice cheese (thinly)
to prepare sandwiches
een brood
een sneetje brood
een boterham
een kapje
hear - 2 		(a loaf of bread)
(a slice of bread)
(an open-faced sandwich)
(a bread end piece)
een plakje cake
hear - 2 		(a slice of banana bread)

[raisin bread]
krentenbrood click to hear 2 		[a few butered slices of raisin bread]
... met boter click to hear 2 		['Stollen:' Christmas or Easter bread: raisin bread with almond paste]
Kerstbrood, Paasbrood - krentenbrood met spijs click to hear 2
krentenbol
krentenbrood
spijs
hear 		bread roll with raisins
raisin bread
almond paste
 Kerstbrood
Paasbrood
hear 		'Christmas bread' - raisin bread with almond paste
'Easter bread' - raisin bread with almond paste
What the Germans call '(Weihnachts)Stollen'
[crispbake, rusk]
beschuitje click to hear		 ['windmill' cookies]
speculaasjes click to hear 2 		['pepper nut' very small cookes]
pepernoten click to hear
[Dutch Santa]
Sinterklaas click to hear (with 'black peters')
beschuit
speculaasjes
pepernoten
hear 		(crispbake, rusk)
('windmill' cookies)
(small 'pepper nut' cookies)
 stroopwafels
drop
chocola
hear - 2 		('syrup waffles')
('liquorice')
(chocolate)
 stroopwafels
dropjes
chocola
hear

'Speculaas' and especially 'Pepernoten' and 'Chocoladeletters' are common 'Sinterklaas' click to hear treats (Saint Nicholas Day, December 5th.)

Stroopwafels have a layer of thick syrup between thin waffles.
American 'Liquorice' is but a pale shadow of the Dutch drop.
The CH of chocola is said as in French.

[crystallized syrup between very thin waffles]
stroopwafel click to hear 2 		[a few pieces of 'liquorice']
drop click to hear		 [a piece of chocolate]
chocola click to hear		 [a piece of cake]
een stukje taart click to hear - 2 (>> Birthday)
[rye bread]
roggebrood click to hear - 2 		[rye bread]
beschuitje met hagelslag click to hear - 2 		[chocolate letter]
chocoladeletter click to hear
Hagelslag is 'chocolate sprinkles.'
The beschuit is buttered to make the hagelslag stick.
[gingerbread]
ontbijtkoek click to hear - 2 - recipe 		[buttered gingerbread]
... met boter click to hear - 2 		[banana bread]
'cake' click to hear - recipe

[French beans meal]
sperziebonen - recipe 		[Italian Beans Meal]
snijbonen - recipe 		[Italian Beans Meal]
snijbonen
[a meal of fava beans with bacon, potatoes and a fried egg]
tuinbonen - recipe
sperziebonen
nootmuskaat
boter
hear 		French beans
nutmeg
butter
snijbonen
spek
ham
hear 		[cutting] Italian beans
bacon
ham
tuinbonen
spek
gekookte aardappelen
gebakken ei
hear - 2 		[garden] fava beans
bacon
boiled potatoes
fried egg
aardappels
aardappelpuree
gebakken ei
hear 		potatoes
mashed potatoes
fried egg
erwtensoep
worst
bietjes
rode kool
hear 		(pea soup)
(sausage)
(red beets)
(red cabbage)
 sperziebonen
snijbonen
hear 		French beans
[cutting] Italian beans
Many people say
"rooie kool" - hear
See D softening 		witlof
hutspot
hear 		(Belgian endives)
(potatoes, carrots and onions,
boiled and mashed)
[pea soup]
erwtensoep - recipe		 [red beets]
bietjes, spek, aardappels		 [red cabbage, sausage]
rode kool, worst, aardappels
[a well with gravy in a carrots/potatoes/onion mash]
hutspot
"een kuiltje voor de jus" click to hear - 2 (a well for gravy) 		[Belgian Endives Meal]
witlof (Belgian Endives) recipe 		[bacon]
spek
kruiden click to hear spices
peper click to hear pepper
zout click to hear 2 salt
nootmuskaat click to hear nutmeg
knoflook click to hear garlic
laurierblaadjes click to hear bay leaves
foelie click to hear mace
tijm click to hear thyme
bonenkruid click to hear savory
komijn click to hear cumin
gember click to hear ginger
kaneel click to hear cinnamon
mosterd click to hear mustard
kerrie click to hear curry
[mashed potatoes on a plate]
aardappelpuree click to hear
[a handful of Brussels sprouts]
food 		[small saucepan: lidded pot with a stick handle]
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