Yes! The time has come to taste some real Dutch food!
Curly kale.
Have you ever heard of that? It's a stew.
The Dutch name it Stamppot Boerenkool met worst.
Kale stew with sausage.
My other TV-friend helped me out.
Well, first we need ingredients.
Potatoes, kale, small pieces of bacon, sausage and not on the picture: salt, pepper, sweet/sour pickles.
It's no science... first you need to peel the potatoes. About 500 gramms.
After rinsing them with water, we cut them in equal pieces and we put them in a big pan.
Then add water so the potatoes are covered in water.
Add the cut kale, this bag has 250 gramms.
No, Padi, that's it, no more kale is flying in the pan from above!
Put the cover on and wait....
When the potatoes are almost cooked, start baking the bacon, but not in butter!!! The bacon has enough fat.
("come on guys, not too close! The fat splashes!")
Bake the bacon brown and crispy.
The potatoes and kale are cooked, warm the sausage (microwave or pan with hot water) and start mashing the potatoes with kale.
To get it moist, you can add some of the grease of the bacon or use some butter. But don't forget to add the wet stuff of the pickles jar! If you don't have that, use vinagar.
After mashing, stur the pieces of bacon in the stew. Add salt and pepper to your own flavor.
My host makes it with pickle pieces! It tastes really good!
Cut them in little pieces.
Then cut the sausage in slices.
Add it to the stew.
And done is our traditional Dutch dish.
Did I tell you my hosts husband is an executive chef (cook)? He never liked Stamppot Boerenkool, until he had my hosts homecooked meal and he loved it ever since!
Or his mother was a terrible cook.... I leave the answer to that in the middle....
Hope you liked this!
Does this mean one of my missions succeeded?
Love, Padi
