Dutch food

A couple of you lovely fellow bloggers asked if I could provide them with some recipes for Dutch food. If I'm honest, I don't really like it myself. Well, I do like some Dutch food (like stamppot boerenkool, rode kool and stoofpeertjes), but I am a vegetarian, so delicious bacon, saucages, meatballs and stewed meat are not on my menu (although I like it, my conscience doesn't) but they feature a lot in real Dutch food.

Another problem is that we use grammes and kilos and a lot of you use cups or pounds. The mere thought of having to convert the measurements gave me a headache, so....... Internet to the rescue:

http://www.recipezaar.com/Dutch-Stpot-With-Rookworst-124192 for a stamppot recipe with root vegetables (according to the comments on the site it tastes delicious)

http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=202341 a recipe for stamppot boerenkool the way my mother cooks it

http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/verona/190/eten.htm is a site with a lot of recipes for Dutch food (the Indonesian kitchen has had a big influence on the Dutch kitchen so you'll find peanutsauce, nasi and sateh recipes here too). And even I like Stoofpeertjes. We use Gieser Wildeman pears for this recipe, which are small pears and you really can't eat them without cooking them first. I don't know if they are available in other countries. But you could use other cooking pears that are probably larger, so you could cut them into big chunky pieces. It's yummy. I love to eat them while they are still a little bit warm. Great with hangop (line a colander/strainer with a clean tea towel, put one liter full fat yoghurt in it and let it drain (over a bowl or the sink) for about 2-3 hours. The thick yoghurt that is left in the tea towel is called 'hangop' and tastes really good). http://www.recipezaar.com/Dutch-Stewed-Cinnamon-Pears-Stoofpeertjes-18474 If you try one or even more of these recipes, please let me know what you thought of it. And as we say in the Netherlands: smakelijk eten!