{"id":1364,"date":"2006-12-13T20:46:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T00:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2006-12-13T21:48:37","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T01:48:37","slug":"all-things-european","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"All things European"},"content":{"rendered":"

V<\/span>ia Flea, I found out that Dutch peanut butter<\/a> is the best, or rather, (as this Wikipedia article says<\/a>):\n<\/p>\n

[The Dutch peanut butter] is very different from its international counterpart. It is sharp instead of sweet and most people say it has a similar taste to that of Satay sauce.\n<\/p>\n

The only thing I want to add is that, Dutch peanut butter is definitely not sweetened<\/em>. And that the most popular peanut butter (the one made by Calve<\/a> [note: you need Flash!]) is definitely not good for use in satay\/peanut sauce. Me and my family also have a patent on how to make a sauce out of peanut butter. There’s a trick for that and I’m not going to reveal that. Peanut sauce goes perfect with fresh veggies (see also ‘gado-gado’<\/a>, Indonesian\/Malaysia recipe). Hey, I knew people who put cucumber slices and sambal<\/em> on their peanut butter sandwiches.\n<\/p>\n

Via the Internationalist something about a food scandal in Hungary<\/a>, which reminded me (in some way) of our Dutch relatives who visited us the last couple of years. To our surprise, my brother hesitantly ate a triple grade A piece of steak. I’m not sure why. The other shock was to see my dad literally clean out a Nova Scotian lobster1<\/sup>. His (nonchalant) remark (‘Yeah, we had lobster too when we anchored in Halifax, back in the 50s’) took us by surprise too. We also rekindled his love for A&W root beer<\/em>, a soft-drink he hadn’t had for years either.\n<\/p>\n

Earlier, we managed to get our hands on a box of custard powder of Koopmans<\/a>. Do not follow the ‘how-to-make-vla’ instructions on the box. It doesn’t work. Try this one instead<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

1<\/sup> I was introduced to lobster for the first time in 2000 or something.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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