Tastes of Home

After reading Guardian's article 'Tastes of home: what food do you miss the most' I started daydreaming about all the foods I would indulge in once I would be back in my home-country this Thursday.

It is basically everything you can buy at my all-time favorite supermarket Albert Heijn and retail shop Hema (gosh, how I miss those shops in the UK) - but I will elaborate a bit more with some mouth-watering photo's of the Dutch delicacies that make me dribble when thinking of.

Boterham met Hagelslag

The bread back at home is just the best, as are the toppings! Take a fresh slice of bread, smother it with a generous unhealthy amount of unsalted butter and then sprinkle a copious amount (ideally a pile) of the sprinkles on your bread. Ahhhh heaven. We have dozens of different types of sprinkles, such as chocolate flavored, fruit-flavored, licorice-flavored. You name it and we have it! Cannot wait to have hagelslag for breakfast. 

Frikandel! 

I am pretty certain that all Dutch people are obsessed with this fried snack. And the obsession is very contagious too. All foreigners I have introduced to this sausage are over the moon and are desperate to have another one. Please note that the ingredients of this delicious sausage is something we do not really like to discuss (think horse flesh, pork and chicken offal... brains..?)

Patatje Oorlog 

Fries, with satay sauce and mayonnaise! I can't even comment on this at the moment as I WANT TO EAT IT NOW! Apparently we love our chips so much that we eat over 41 million kilo per year. However, it isn't really the chips that I miss so much and desperately crave, but the satay sauce. It is delicious on fries!

Tompouce

An equivalent to the English Mille-Feuille/Napoleon, but so so so much better. The tompouce is truly iconic in the Netherlands. I love it so much that my stephmum even gave me a blow-up bed in the shape of a tompouce. see photo here

However, what I probably miss the utmost is the delicious food created by my incredibly talented brother, and served in Restaurant/Brasserie De Vierbannen. His scrumptious creations are a sight for sore eyes! I feel a separate post about this beautiful restaurant and excellent food is due soon....

Secretly I am also hoping that my dad reads this, and that it reminds him of my post in March 2013: Continental Food for a Homesick Dutchy - my dad's infamous paella on the menu on Thursday night? YES PLEASE!

Liefs,

Dutchy xx

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