From My Kitchen to Yours .....
Celery Root Salad is also called celery remoulade , but this is misleading because there is no remoulade sauce used. I used crème fraiche, mayonnaise and mustard. The salad is delicious on crackers or bread and perfect as a side dish with fish.
Snert is a not so nice word for this wonderful soup. Snert is a Dutch word for substandard quality, rubbish or trash, The first time my husband was asked if he would like to eat some snert he was thinking wtf ??? And said politely:” No …
In the Netherlands, in addition to the snackbars, one can also find street stalls selling different fried, smoked and raw fish products called a “viskraam”. Besides the popular raw herring served with chopped onions, these stalls also sell fish products such as smoked mackerel, smoked eel and “kibbeling” (deep fried cod nuggets).
This is one of my favorite food that my mother prepared for us, and she made it again when I went home. I did some research to find out why the eel is so expensive. And this is what I found out: European eel is …
An oliebol (plural oliebollen is a traditional Dutch food. Oliebollen (literally oil balls) are traditionally eaten on New Year’s Eve and at funfairs. They are also called smoutebollen in Belgium. Sometimes it is referenced in English as Dutch donut.
They are said to have been first eaten by Germanic tribes in the Netherlands during the Yule, the period between December 26 and January 6. The Germanic goddess Perchta, together with evil spirits, would fly through the mid-winter sky. To appease these spirits, food was offered, much of which contained deep-fried dough. It was said Perchta would try to cut open the bellies of all she came across, but because of the fat in the oliebollen, her sword would slide off the body of whomever ate them.