My expat life in the Netherlands!
One of the curses and blessings of living abroad is that you have to make all the specialities from your own country by yourself. I’ve been craving Swedish bread now for awhile and decided to test baking my own Hönökaka today. Hönökaka is a traditional bread from the West coast of Sweden (named after an island…
For work I went to Arnhem and that was a golden opportunity to continue my series about Dutch pastries. Arnhem is a city in the east of the Netherlands. It’s a quiet little town (could also have something to do with, that it’s August – vacation month here), with your typical Dutch main shopping streets…
After another long hiatus I’m back with my blog. I don’t seem to be able to get into the habit of blogging. After an entire day at the office, which is more or less 8 hours in front of the computer, it doesn’t feel so tempting to set up the laptop and start writing. I’m…
Today I’m starting a new series: Dutch pastries. I will present Dutch pastries from around the country. I’m hoping to discover more than just over-sweet heavy stuff. Maybe there will be some travel involved, I hope. The adventure of gebak begins with the Bossche Bol from Den Bosch. The Bol is a big ball, see…
I love making sushi!! I still need practice for making the rolls nice and neat, but I like the versatility of sushi, with just a few ingredients and imagination you can create a beautiful and tasty thing. Yesterday we went to the market in Delft (will do a review post on this market soon) to…
Today we finished the last left-overs of the cabbage rolls, including two hamburgers. A Swedish way would have been to make a potato pancake – called Raggmunk. I might do a recipe of that as well. But we didn’t have any potatoes. What we did have were mungbeans. And I’ve made Korean mungbean pancakes as…
If there’s one dish that’s really Swedish (?), it’s cabbage rolls, even though cabbage rolls are eaten over entire Northern Europe. There’s a story (probably not true) behind the Swedish cabbage rolls. The Swedish king Charles XII with his entorage had fled to the Osman empire after losing a battle to Peter the Great of…
Since summer is long gone (or so I thought) and we’ve been working for a while now non-stop, it was time for a little vacation. This time we went to Oslo, Norway to visit friends. We flew with KLM from Schiphol to Gardemoen last Wednesday. Wednesday evening was spent catching up with the…
One of the good things about living in the Netherlands, is that it’s quite easy to get Indonesian food both in normal supermarkets and toko’s (Indonesian supermarket). There are also a number of Indonesian restaurants in every city. In The Hague, I can recommend De Poentjak at Kneuterdijk 16, a bit of an old-fashioned restaurant, but…
For work I was visiting the Dutch island Vlieland. In other to get there I had to take the ferry from Harlingen. This is Harlingen port the evening before I went out to Vlieland.