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Stuff Dutch People Like: #19--Mashing Their Food--Stamppot
Stuff Dutch People Like ^ | January 2012 | Anon

Posted on 11/17/2012 7:18:11 AM PST by Pharmboy

"Mommy, what's that???"

For anyone reading this, it shouldn’t come as a big surprise that Dutch food has yet to sweep the globe. Although pockets of the Dutch can be found scattering the world, delectable Dutch cuisine never seemed to have caught on. “Fancy I pick up some Dutch food on the way home from work?” or “Wow, you have got to try this new Dutch restaurant in SoHo!” are phrases you will never hear uttered.

Isn’t it odd that a nation of traveling, colonizing, patriotic, emigrating folk never managed to sow their own culinary seeds? C’mon, who are we kidding?? Even those emigrated Dutch settlers were thrilled to have found tastier grub! Sure, New York was more than happy to take the Dutch names of Brooklyn (Breukelen), Harlem (Haarlem), Coney Island (from Konijneneiland) and Staten Island — but when it came to Dutch cuisine, they left it at the door (apart from the cheese)!

Dutch people have 3 very specific ways of preparing food/vegetables. Dutch people like to either:

a) mash the hell out of something,

b) boil the shit out of something, or

c) deep-fry the life out of something

(Excerpt) Read more at stuffdutchpeoplelike.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Humor
KEYWORDS: dutch; holland; potatoes; sauerkraut
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To: Chode

Was grandmama’s people Dutch or from northern Germany? Or from ??


41 posted on 11/17/2012 2:38:19 PM PST by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: ansel12

I apologize for letting that slip...I would have edited that out, but missed it.


42 posted on 11/17/2012 2:41:28 PM PST by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: Pharmboy

Hagelslag!

http://stuffdutchpeoplelike.com/2011/03/06/hagelslag/


43 posted on 11/17/2012 2:44:50 PM PST by thecodont
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To: Pharmboy

I know what you mean, I think we need to start reminding each other.


44 posted on 11/17/2012 2:48:00 PM PST by ansel12 (The only Senate seat GOP pick up was the Palin endorsed Deb FischerÂ’s successful run in Nebraska)
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To: Pharmboy
German... oh how i loved those fried patties and her potato pancakes were to die for
45 posted on 11/17/2012 4:49:49 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Pharmboy

One of my co-workers with a German background recommended trying something like stamppot, with the kraut in the potatoes accompanying pork.

As for deep-frying the life out of food, I thought THAT was purely Midwestern. Maybe we are more Dutch than we realize, way back.


46 posted on 11/17/2012 5:51:47 PM PST by Cloverfarm (This too shall pass ...)
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To: Joe 6-pack

They might like toad in the hole as well.


47 posted on 11/17/2012 8:35:07 PM PST by driftless2
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To: bigbob
I stand corrected. Any country (empire, whatever) that can lay claim to single malt scotch deserves a lifetime pass on food!

If the contents of the bottle is single malt from the land of the Scots, is it labeled "Scotch whiskey" or is it just Scots whisky? Or is Scotch just tail-end leavings blended for the Engs?

(laughingly)

48 posted on 11/18/2012 2:49:18 AM PST by imardmd1
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To: Pharmboy
I thought some of you Freepers might enjoy this dish and the funny site that the post is derived from.

Great post! I read a lot of the comments on the source site, (about 50%), and decided I must have some Hollander in me (I know there's a lot of Deutsch) because here is what I invented for myself years ago, not knowing of Dutch/Deutsch stuff before:

20-minute hot potato salad for a bachelor

Ingredients:

Potato flakes
water
butter
salt
milk
bag of shredded country lettuce salad
sweet onion
(olive) oil vinegar
honey

Directions:

(1) Make "mashed" potatos with 1 to 1 1/2 cups of flakes, according to instructions on the flakes box.
(2) Throw a couple handfuls of crisp bag salad onto potatoes.
(3) Cut off some diced chips from the onion into the pot also.
(4) Pour on about 2 tablespoons each of oil, vinegar, and honey from the bottles.
(5) Stir everything together.
(6) Eat soon before lettuce, etc. stop being crispy in the hot potatoes.
(6) Say "Mmmmmmm!"

Is that sort of like "stamppot" or what?

(Crumbled crispy bacon shreds in the above is nice, but extra.) (Saves time on boiling potatoes, and eat quick; from the pot when alone. Washup is quick, too - just the measuring cup, the pot, the knife, & the fork. Also, I found out if you want them, that steaming cut-up peeled potatoes takes no longer than boiling, and they mash OK and taste better than boiled.)

49 posted on 11/18/2012 3:56:24 AM PST by imardmd1 (Potatoes, tomatoes, string bean soup! Dutch food likes me! Boop-boop-dee-doop!)
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To: driftless2
Their standard f & c dinner is superior to around my area, western Wisconsin, and we're known for Friday fish fries in these parts.

Probably not better than Lake Erie wall-eye around Cleveland, betcha!

50 posted on 11/18/2012 4:01:30 AM PST by imardmd1 (Potatoes, tomatoes, string bean soup! Dutch food likes me! Boop-boop-dee-doop!)
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To: RegulatorCountry
We don't have many Dutch descended people down here. Well, Pennsylvania Dutch came down way back, but that's a corruption of Deutsch.

As you indicate, "Pennsylvania Dutch" is German. My people. Harder to get along with than Hollanders.

That said, I discovered that mashed turnips with a little horseradish, treated like mashed potatoes otherwise (butter) are quite good, to my astonishment.

We called rutabagas "turnips" too, and I really like them. But add one peeled small/medium potato when boiling cut-up rutabaga makes it very mashable and tempers the flavor. I'll try the horseradish, sounds very good!

51 posted on 11/18/2012 4:15:56 AM PST by imardmd1 (Potatoes, tomatoes, string bean soup! Dutch food likes me! Boop-boop-dee-doop!)
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To: imardmd1

You might be right. I’m sad right now because one of my favorite restaurants closed down last month. They had a great wall-eye and american fries fish dinner. Love that wall-eye.


52 posted on 11/18/2012 9:32:39 AM PST by driftless2
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To: Joe 6-pack

Never ate much in there. Couldn’t afford it. I was a lowly-paid spook over at NRL and the Old Town apartment ate up most of what I had. Saved the rest for “liquid” type lunches and dinners. My favorite two hang outs were Murphy’s and the Piano Bar down nearer the river. Ah, to be young and single and 32 again!


53 posted on 11/18/2012 10:34:22 AM PST by CTOCS (I live in my own little world. But, it's okay. They know me there....)
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To: CTOCS

I quaffed a few at Murphy’s. Actually found the Scotland Yard to be one of the more affordable places in Old Town. The atmosphere was the best. Even when the place was full, you could still have a cozy, intimate meal, and the Christmas decor around this time of year was right out of the 19th Century.


54 posted on 11/18/2012 10:42:24 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: driftless2
You might be right. ... Love that wall-eye.

Yeah! Wall-eye is really just a super-sized perch. I've been in England, Cleveland, M'waukee, fished Wisconsin River from Eagle River to Rhinelander (not a bite); lived on Cayuga Lake NY) where bass were dying of old age (smile); stuffed myself with bluegill, perch, and bass filets there for a few years; had sashimi in Tokyo & Burbank; swordfish steak at Allen's Clamhouse in Westport CT (gone now); Shark steak in La Jolla; salmon in Coleraine Ireland; etc.

Wall-eye (= yellow pike on the menu) -- the best!

Dutch raw herring -- ugh!

55 posted on 11/18/2012 1:17:14 PM PST by imardmd1 (Let the redeemed of The LORD say so, whom He hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy. (Ps. 107:2))
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