A whole blog about hagelslag! It’s Dutch for chocolate sprinkles and the Dutch eat hagelslag sprinkles year round. It isn’t the first food covered in the Dutch traditional food series, we’ve already talked about Muisjes, Dutch Speculaas and Hete Bliksem. Let’s find out the origins and history of hagelslag. See …
Category: Bread
Croque Madame: A Delicious Extra Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Yuri made us a croque madame sandwich, and it was delicious. He also prepared us a croque monsieur sandwich. So we could do croque monsieur vs croque madame! So what is a croque madame? Well it’s basically a grilled cheese sandwich with bechamel and a baked egg. So a grilled …
Savory Bundt Cake with Bread Dough
We loved this savory bundt cake a lot. It was bread dough stuffed with sundried tomatoes and anchovy. Seriously good. Mostly I prepare sweet bundt cakes, but savory bundt cake recipes are also worth the time, I found out. I served it for breakfast and lunch, and it was perfect. …
Kerststol: A Traditional Dutch Christmas Food
Kerststol or Kerstbrood or Christmasbread is a truly traditional Christmas food in the Netherlands. Paul loves it, I’m less fond of it, since I don’t like almond spice that much. Which according to my husband is the highlight of a kerststol recipe. You can buy them everywhere in stores around …
Easy Recipe for Stuffing for Thanksgiving
We’ve road tripped across the US several times and on one of our last trips we had a Thanksgiving like dinner, which included stuffing. This made me curious to make it at home, so I used an easy recipe for stuffing and prepared it at home. We loved this easy …
Scrambled Egg Bun
Buns and egg are a perfect combination, hence a Scrambled Egg Bun. This was our breakfast on a Saturday morning, we usually have a dish with egg on Saturday morning. I tried to stop the tradition, but Yuri won’t let me. So we’ll go on with it. Although mostly it’s …
Bread Pizza
Almost every week Yuri, my son, makes something for dinner. Sometimes without help from me or Paul, other times with some help from us. This was such a recipe that required no help from us. He picks the recipes himself and since he’s a fan of pizza he chose this …
Brioche with Seeds and Candied Orange
For Easter, and a lot of years also for Pentecost now, I prepare a brioche. A luxurious bread which gives us a festive feeling and which we all love. This Easter I made us a brioche with seeds, and it was again a delicious bread. All kinds of seeds went …