Leftover turmeric chicken soup/stew
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This is too cute and too easy.
Thinking of a few of you.
Iâll do it!
Bon appetit everyone
Food is life⊠and sometimes fun!
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Hi @Just_Laura, I am going to answer (or at least attempt to!) your question below here in an attempt not to derail the Daily Check-In thread with all sorts of food twitter 
I have been outside the Netherlands for too long to have an informed opinion about what constitutes Dutch food nowadays so will ask people like @Mno, @Mischa84 and @SoberWalker to pitch in, but here are some of my personal favourites:
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Stamppot, veggie & potato mash (with for example curly kale, sauerkraut, carrots & onions etc.) served with smoked sausage and gravy. I like mine with a dollop of Dutch wholegrain mustard too!
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Dutch cheese, there are SO many varieties of cheese in The Netherlands and most of them are yummy. I am partial to well-aged cheese, hard goat cheese and cheese with herbs like cumin, cloves and fenugreek. My favourite breakfast is slices of toast with aged cheese and a big lick of sambal, a spicy Indonesian chilli condiment.
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a HUGE variety of cold cuts to put on bread for breakfast and lunch. There must easily be 50 different varieties and some of my favourites include ossenworst, tongeworst, filet americain and lever & pekelvlees (sliced boiled liver and brined meat).
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Erwtensoep, Hollandâs version of pea & ham but a little bit thicker and with bacon and smoked sausage instead of ham. We used to eat it with slices of dark sticky rye bread with real butter and sliced cheese on it.
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My parents live(d) in a former fishermanâs village on the edge of the reclaimed land and there is a brisk trade in mussels and smoked eel. We steam the mussels with chopped vegetables and a splash of white wine, served with sliced french baguettes and a variety of dips. The smoked eel is fileted and put on slices of bread with mayonaise and lettuce.
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cookies like stroopwafels (caramel waffles, you can usually buy them at Stop & Shop or Aldi), speculaas (think Biscoff) and gevulde koeken (pastry filled with almond paste).
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licorice, the pitch black salty, aniseed kind. On top of being an alcoholic, I also have a real licorice addiction and can easily devour a whole bag in one sitting!
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fried food from a Dutch âsnackbarâ - usually a portion of fries with sauce of choice (my favourite is mayonnaise, peanut sauce and chopped raw onions) combined with some form of fried meat (kroket, frikandel) or a fried breaded thick slice of cheese (kaasssouflĂ©). Nowadays, many people order a âkapsalonâ at the snackbar, but I am not too familiar with that.
I guess The Netherlands is also famous for pancakes, poffertjes (mini pancakes served with butter and icing sugar), soused herring, bitterballen (fried breaded balls of meat salpicon, to be precise), but they arenât too high on my food list when I visit!
If youâve read this far, you are probably wondering what on earth the average Dutch family usually eats for dinner 
The answer is that Dutch cuisine has had a lot of influences over the years, so itâs a mix of traditional potatoes, vegetables and meat, Indonesian food, Italian pastas etc., Thai curries, Chinese stir fries etc. A Dutch supermarket is much like an American one, with isles dedicated to âworld foodsâ.
I hope you enjoyed this quick cultural tour of your mumâs roots, I also found a reasonable (although somewhat dated aka âoudbolligâ 
) Wikipedia article here:
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Omg, such a cute pup! 
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That looks delicious 
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I havenât had black pudding in 5+ yrs.
If youâve got extra, think itâll hold in an envelope to the other side of the globe? Just a bit of a re-heat when it gets here?
The Irish/English do breakfast so much better than us 
Itâs the first order of business every time I visit. Off the plane, fry-up for me.
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Iâm still trying to figure out the whole air fryer thing. 
My chicken thighs and sweet potato fries came out extra crispy. 
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Lol
âŠI know what you mean. Finally got the hang of my brothers air fryer and then changed to a different type and now relearning the timing
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Are those chilli flakes? 
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Yup âŠlike a little heat
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Benson says thank you very much 
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@Dirk Nice write up of yours there!!
What happened to the 6 PM part?
Perhaps itâs in the link, which I didnât open up yet.
I have a personal favorite, which is my own version of Stamppot. I have made it and posted it here a lot.
Most everybody Iâve made it for loves it.
I use potato 
(or sometimes sweet potato 
) , baby kale, ( sometimes spinach), olive oil, salt and pepper.
Soooo good!
What I love most of all there is the watercress and the lambâs lettuce, right now Iâm forgetting the name in Dutch.
Also love as much of the cheese as possible! And ok, with good Dutch butter on the bread before the cheese goes on!
I also love the Stroopwaffles. I can get them at my own grocery store and try not to. Theyâre a problem cookie for me.
I love them too much!
Last time I was there, I enjoyed eating the almond cookies whatever their Dutch name is.
Thanks for your write up, also the link.
Here I have salad and salmon.
Bon appetit everyone!
Food ( in moderation) is life.
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Have you ever been eaten âJan in de zakâ Dirk?
My mother was a Fries and so she made it for us as a kid. Itâs my nr 1 favorite real Dutch food.
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