hetismij2

Sterkte en gecondoleerd Menachem!
Middelburg is een heel eind van Sneek, maar wel dichterbij Rotterdam natuurlijk. Wat een moeilijke, rot week voor je.

Tradional Dutch food? Boerenkool met worst (kale long before it became a trendy superfood), or basically mash any other vegetable with potatoes to make some sort of a stamppot. Serve with a piece of meat, or not depending on the budget. The Dutch are the only people I know who when you ask them what is for dinner will tell you the vegetable, not the meat/fish, they are eating that day.

Tulips

Dutch food is what we cook at home - the mashed potato/kale with 'rookworst' as Hetismij says. Pea soup with the same 'rookworst'. Mashed potatoes and carrots with meatballs. Not what you would go out to eat in restaurants.
Broodje kroket and bitterballen are also what I would call 'Dutch food', but these are snacks. Herring when in season, smoked eel.

The restaurant mentioned on another post, The Pantry, has this kind of food. If that is what you are looking for, it gets some good reviews along with some 'tourist trap' warnings (serving pea soup and boerenkool stamppot in the middle of summer...)

Tulips

Veel sterkte Menachem!

ribeirasacra

I could give many likes on this tread it there was such a facility.

PalenQ

For authentic Dutch food hit the street foods - like Frites and herring stands and pancake houses.

menachem

That's why I go to good restaurants.

menachem

hetismij, tulips, dank voor de goede wensen.

ribeirasacra

When I meant cheap I also meant all restaurants. I was not talking about quality, but content.
Oh BTW here is what This website makes of the restaurants in the city.
https://www.fodors.com/world/europe/...am/restaurants
Note when classified by cuisine there is no mention of Dutch. A huge omission Mr Fodor.
A list of some food museums maybe?
https://www.fodors.com/news/restaura...acquired-taste

StCirq

Call me a simpleton, but I'll eat Dutch pea soup any time of year. OTOH, you can keep your bitterballen. There are SO many things one can make with minced meat that don't have to turn out like those little doggie snacks.

I remember being very pleased with the lunch we had at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Het Loo.

bvlenci

There is such an English word as "uninventive", and it's been around since the 18th century:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uninventive

menachem

Where did you have lunch? In their proper restaurant? We were there last summer and they had a large tent, people were picnicking on the lawns, among the sculptures. They had lawn chairs out at Snelson's tensegrity tower. It was lovely. It's such a moving museum. The testament of someone with a singular artistic vision.

Pea Soup only in winter, kale, carrot, what have you mash also in winter. New Herring from "Flag Day", asparagus in April, Kapsalon any time of the year, although that's more a Rotterdam thing.

StCirq

menachem, yes, we had lunch in their proper restaurant, inside, as it was late fall and cold. I don't remember what we ordered, but DH as well as I recall that it was a delicious lunch. And yes, that museum is a gem!

DH is now enthralled that he has found rollmops at our fish market.

menachem

That's long ago for me. My grandparents used to have it for lunch a lot.

PalenQ

In spring and early summer are not Spargels - white asparagus a delicacy?

menachem

Yes, as I mentioned. The "white gold"

PalenQ

rollmops - the worst food ever!

hetismij2

Asperge in Dutch. Must be eaten before midsummers day. Yum.

MyriamC

Gecondoleerd menachem, en sterkte!