All Things Holland

Check out this interesting article on cooking Dutch food from the NY Times . I don't want to copy down what she said but I'll offer some bullet points here. -Next time I'm in Amsterdam, I'm visiting Boerenjongens. It's a food shop that specializes in traditional home-style dishes. The word Boerenjongens can mean a couple of things; 'farmer boy' and others. -Here is the blog of writer Janneke Vreugdenhil . (be prepared to read Dutch). She as written a few cookbooks but sadly (for now) they're all in Dutch. -Some of her more unusual recipes include hangop met boerenjongens, hutspot, and endive soup. hangop met boerenjongens here meaning 'brandied raisins' is a  'super' dessert. Hutspot is a traditional stewy soup with it's origins in Spain but was turned Dutch with the addition of mashed vegetables or stamppot (any combination of mashed vegetables and is the national dish of Holland). Finally, endive soup using bitter greens. Whic

Ahhh, the most perfect place on earth.  Where else can you still have an interesting native culture, go bungee jumping, see a beautiful landscape, and have a national rugby team.  Yes, New Zealand is now very English; its ruler is officially Queen Elizabeth II herself.  But what about that name?  Wouldn't an English colony have the name New Essex or New Reading or even New Caledonia, hint hint.  We should have noticed in the first glance that this name is Dutch.  So, what is New Zealand's Dutch heritage? The first Europeans to "discover" New Zealand's islands were the Dutch, led by the explorer Abel Tasman in 1642.  He also discovered the island of Tasmania, look at his last name.  However this first encounter with Europeans was not peaceful.  Several of the Dutch crewmen died in this hustle with the indigenous people the Maori; aka the rugby and football stars of the world, you don't want to mess with them.  One beneficial outcome of this encounter was the

Well hopefully you found it. Welcome ABD members! I finally opened my newsletter yesterday and saw the neat little box about this blog. I had sent the association an email way back in November and hadn't heard anything since so I figured they never got it. But then I see us mentioned in the newsletter!(albeit they spelled our URL wrong but I had faith in the readers to know the difference between blogspot and blogspost) Which is exciting. I've personally never attended a meeting of the ABD, since I live in the midwest. I plan on going to one someday though. I'm trying to time it with riding the Kalmar Nyckle. For a rundown of what this blog will be about see Nummer Een published way back in September 2010. We both have been a little lax in our publishing here with classes being in full swing but we're ready now to get back into the swing of things. Some things to look forward to. -One of the classes I'm taking will require me to write a paper. I've choosen

Check out this great MSN video - Mythical Viking Sunstone Is Real So this guy is slightly annoying and 'rad' but it's a good summary of the sun stones. I'll do a more detialed post on it later.

This is a new Dutch blogger that I found on youtube.  It follows Lize and her mother Petra.  Petra lives by herself so Lize is with her to combat the winter blues.  It's fun you can pick out some words.  Love it, they're very funny.  PS might contain some "zoo" material