Rediscovering Tradtional Food

[Mich the Tester]

Do you make them yourself?

I'm just wondering how to explain caul to my local butcher.

Yep. But not with caul.

[norrahe]

Yep.

Do you use caul to bind them?

[norrahe]

Yep. But not with caul.

Ah!

[Mich the Tester]

Ah!

That sort of thing goes into kroketten and frikadel, which, as you know, I avoid like the plague. Not because there's caul in them, but because they taste revolting.

[norrahe]

That sort of thing goes into kroketten and frikadel, which, as you know, I avoid like the plague. Not because there's caul in them, but because they taste revolting.

Have never eaten them myself and never intend to, have found a local place though that makes their own bitterballen, so normally this time of year is Hert or Hazen ( lekker).

[greenlake]

I certainly remember (as will anyone over the age of 40) that the school dinner menu (I use the word loosely as it implies choice - this was before the current cafeteria system. There was no choice. You had to eat what you were given) certainly still had a "post war austerity" feel to it with plenty of offal, root vegetables and suet puddings. All things that I've had a strong aversion to for the whole of my adult life thanks to the bad culinary standards and the poor quality of the ingredients associated with school dinners.

All served up by Lunch Lady Doris....

[Platypus]

overlong load of crap

Have we figured out who this tedious sockie is yet?

I'm starting to think that Gentile might be a good shout

[suityou01]

Yep, a regular on the menu at Tester Towers. I prefer beetroot to peas though. (I sink zis may be a Germanic ettribute end a srowbeck to ze days our family voz called 'von Tester'. Many of my Germanic traits vere reavakend by my relationship viz Lady Tester.)

Holy crap, you're fluent

[darmstadt]

NL food is generally crap actually; no need to be tactful about it for me!

Can't be that bad: Netherlands is country with most plentiful, healthy food: Oxfam | Reuters