Category: Daily recipe

Lunch

We had the good fortune to have a Dutch friend collect use from the train and drive us to Schokland where we had a ‘toastie’ each. It’s a toasted ham and cheese sandwich served with ketchup.

The toastie was $4.48 each.

We went on to Giethoorn where we had some bitterballen while waiting for our canal boat ride.

Dinner

Michael Horton had been wanting to try the food at Eetcafe Koevoet so, since we were walking past, we decided to stop in. Michael had thought it expensive, but it was comparable cost to the Capri, but with a higher standard of food.

All our meals were excellent. Foodie Greg had cannelloni while Foodie Philip had another steak. This time with a green pepper sauce. The bolognese was “the best I’ve ever had” said Michael.

The side salad was radicchio, fennel and steamed (but cold) green beans. Foodie Philip has a mixed relationship with fennel. Like most vegetables in the Netherlands the flavor was more intense than in California, so that went to Foodie Greg to enjoy.

Like the Capri, the meal cost an average of $20.00 a head.

Lunch

Another Lunch with Philip and Greg recording and our serious foodie guest Gary Adcock chose Feduzzi because it everything is made fresh, to order.

Definitely above average and our panini’s cost $7.84 each.

Dinner

We decided to check out a local tapas place we’d passed going to lunch. It must be local as we found our temporary landlady having dinner there with her husband.

This week has been atypically hot in Amsterdam where there is a rule that once the temperature goes over 25 Celsius (that’s around 77 F) restaurants can move as many tables as they like to the sidewalk. As do a lot of residents!

Being a local ‘joint’ we weren’t sure what to expect but the food was pretty good. Being Tapas we shared three plates.

The endive with blue cheese, capers and red onion dressing was unexpected. Endive (a.k.a. whitloff) is quite bitter, but the salty blue cheese offset the bitterness and the result was strong, but delicious. (See featured image)

We chose sardines because neither of us had ever had fresh sardines. The tomato and red onion salsa was a good complement to the fish. Technically there is no ‘sardine.’ The term is used to cover a variety of species caught and served as small fish.

Our third dish was ordered as a filet, but the word came back that the kitchen wasn’t happy with the filet, so a rib eye was suggested as the second alternative. The meat was good and the tomato based sauce was tasty, but unmemorable against the other dishes.

The endive was definitely the tastiest dish of the three.

Lunch

At lunch were were recording an episode of Lunch with Philip and Greg and we had carpaccio (with fries, Belgian style) or a smoked salmon open sandwich. Both were excellent, along with the conversation.

In US$ the meal cost $15.40 per serve.

Dinner

Back to our favorite restaurant in Amsterdam – The Capri – where Foodie Philip had a steak with gorgonzola cream sauce, while Foodie Greg had a tortellini. Again, both were excellent.

We shared the cost across the table, so including wine and beer, which I normally would not include, the meal cost $33.60 per serve.

Lunch

The foodies spend lunch apart. Foodie Philip was participating in an IBC Forum event with typical luncheon sandwich-type offerings, while foodie Greg noshed on a baguette, brie, salami and liverwurst.

One lunch was free, the other about $5.00, so $2.50 on average.

Dinner

The early part of the evening was spent as a mixer event, with finger food. The bitterballen (a Netherland speciality) which were among the best we’ve tasted, and a cheese stick that actually tasted of cheese, and not ‘deep fried’.

On the way home we stopped for some tapas: Spanish Tortilla, Scallops and sausage. All were very excellent.

The mixer was free but the tapas cost $23.65 per serve.

Lunch

We decided to head down off the hill to greater Chatsworth and pick ups a burrito. This time we tried the Asada, which was pretty good.

The burrito costs $5.50 with tax.

Dinner

With so much meat over the last couple of days, including lunch, we opted for a (mostly) meat free dinner. Well, there was some bacon.

The recipe makes a good six serves.

• Two packs of fresh, sliced mushrooms cost $3.99 a pack, or $1.33 a serve
• The pearl barley is $4.89 for a 28 oz bag, or 61c per serve
• Two cups of broth is half a $1.99 carton or 17c per serve
• The packet of parmesan cost $6.99 but we used about 1/8 for three servings, or 29c per serve
• Add another 20c for onion, oil and herbs.

Dinner today cost $2.60 per serve.