Blogwatch: Netherlands' National Dish, the Raw Herring Sandwich
You want fries with that?
You want fries with that?
Oh, I love zataar! Here's a bread that's bursting with flavor. I tried it with focaccia dough for the base, but you could use anything bready.
http://noteatingoutinny.com/2008/03/10/zataar-bread-with-feta-and-parsley/
I also sprinkle zataar on fried eggs.
Too much emphasis on personality, and not enough on food. I'd rather see a dull presenter who could show me something wonderful about food, than an "exciting" personality who has no right to have a cooking show.
Ooh, it's so pink and feminine -- I love it! Is that where Hello Kitty lives?
A nice fresh bialy, full-fat cream cheese, sable, sliced tomato and cucumber, and hot, strong coffee. It doesn't get any better than that!
Dark! If Nature had intended us to eat milk chocolate, then cows would make chocolate milk.
Hi, I just joined, and already I've learned something. I guess I've been cleaning my quarry tiles too much. Every time they get too messy, I clean them with my oven's self-cleaning cycle, and they look brand new again. Perhaps I'm too tidy for my own good!
Somehow the description "it's incredibly soft and I could probably eat it without teeth." does not make me want to run out and try this.
I love pickled herring though, now that as an adult that I know that the little black peppercorns floating around are not fish eyeballs, as my father told me.
@Boscompb, @Noskos and @ Cassendrea:
I agree; Pickled herring rules. I keep a jar in the fridge for snacking at any time of the day. Deelish!
Also ps. have you tried it with white onion and a cream sauce over steamed potatoes? Also super fantastic-o!
@Noskos -- Those pickles look mighty suspicious! Maybe this was taken at a McDonald's in the Netherlands. Their new McHerring sandwich. :P
My boyfriend ate this while we were in Amsterdam and liked it. I love fish and think I'm a pretty adventurous eater, but I couldn't bring myself to try it.
What the heck are those pickles doing on the sandwich? I'm Dutch and in my part of the country I've never seen them with pickles. You eat them either with or without chopped unions. Preferably without the bread either, just hold them up by the tail and let them slide into your mouth.
@Boscompb: The taste is totally different from pickled herring, my mom loved pickled herring, but hated "salt" herring as we call them.
I'm an American, living in the Netherlands for nearly 10 years now, and I can unequivocally say..."bleh". Sometimes with pickles, more often covered with chopped onions, and rarely with a mayonnaise/dill sauce - I've tried it 3 times here and each time I wanted to cough it up fast. We have a word for it here: "slecht!"
They're wonderful and cheap! I ate a bunch on a road trip around Holland last summer.
ugh, why did I have to see that whilst eating....
I use it on pizza instead of oregano, on salads with some olive oil as dressing, as a marinade for chicken, on eggs, on hummus... i like the focaccia idea. With some sliced tomatoes? Yum.
Buckethead, a great point I hadn't considered. It makes sense. Now I can stop banging my head against the wall, wondering why the resulting shows suck so hard.
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