DUTCH FOOD AT 2012 LANDDAG---ANNUAL DUTCH HERITAGE DAY---RECIPES INCLUDED

Last weekend I was feasting on Greek food and this weekend I am trying all the Dutch food at the Annual Dutch Heritage Day.  This is one of my favorite days of the year.  All the food is homemade and so extremely good.  There is also music, food to buy and take home, and a horse show.

The menu.

Orange is the color for the day.

 

 



I like their currant buns with Gouda cheese.

There were also cheese with cumin seed in buns without the currants.



Zoute Haring with onions.

 

 

 



Eating Zoute Haring the traditional way.

 

 

 



Food and Dutch hats for sale at VanderVeen's Dutch Store. 

 

 

 



Dutch candies from The Dutch Store.

 

 

 

 



Boterkoek or Butter cake is much like a Scotch shortbread only the Dutch variety is more moist.

 

 

 



http://michigancottagecook.blogspot.com/2010/05/dutch-butter-cake-nederlandes-boter.html 



You can tell the Boterkoeks are homemade as each one is different as each family has its own recipe.

 

 



Mary Lou Cogbill keeps very busy making Oliebollen, Pigs in the Blanket, and selling Bonket, but she always has time for her great smile and a kind word.

 

 

 

 



Oliebollen or Fat Balls

 

Recipe #1 http://michigancottagecook.blogspot.com/2010/11/dutch-oliebollenfat-ballshappy-new-year.html

 

 

 

Recipe #2 

http://michigancottagecook.blogspot.com/2011/01/dutch-oliebollen-2-andor-dutch.html 

 

 

 



Of course, this is one of my favorite treats.  The Dutch celebrate the New Year with Oliebollen.

 

 

 



Served with powdered sugar makes them super good. 

 

 



Cooking the Indonesian Sate or Sateh.

 

 

 

http://michigancottagecook.blogspot.com/2010/05/dutch-indonesian-satehsate-with-peanut.html

 

 

 



 Sateh or Sate with peanut sauce.  A slice of lime is delicious with the Sateh and Peanut Sauce too.

 

 

 

Pigs in the Blanket ready to bake.

 

http://michigancottagecook.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-to-make-dutch-pigs-in-blanket-6000.html

Dutch Bonket is an almond paste filling wrapped in flaky pastry.  Here it is homemade and ready to purchase to take home to have with tea.

Smiles are every where on this fun day.

 

 

 

At one church's food booth, there were all kinds of homemade pies.  You knew they were homemade and not purchased as the workers were slicing the pies right out of home-style pie pans.

 

 

I have eaten too much.  Let the music begin!