Breakfast: Differences in The Netherlands & USA

Breakfast: Differences in The Netherlands & USA
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[@ElDragow]

this is the second video i've ever watched of you after i came across your channel, and it's crazy how perfectly your kid can speak both dutch and english.

[@edhdvanhout1490]

I miss the boiled egg, the sliced meats , sliced tomatoes and cucumber, knifes and forks, tea, or coffee, milk or buttermilk, beschuit, knackerbrot

[@livinglife.digital3399]

😅 Knifes and forks😂

[@harrytresoor5037]

Milk, coffee, and tea are also typical Dutch. At Mother-day we serve them a soft boiled egg in bed. ❤

[@chubbymoth5810]

Ehm,.. this would be the lazy student version. It has many of the ingredients, but lacks a lot that you'd take time for in the weekend. Soft boiled eggs, sliced tomato's, cucumber, hard crust buns. Probably some smoked salmon or other fish would be present as well these days. More fresh stuff would hit the table in the weekends. Fried eggs with bacon on bread would be a very common as well.

[@nfboogaard]

Hi Fi! A perfect Dutch weekend breakfast also includes half a dozen buns from the oven, you can get a variety of these in every supermarket, for instance keizerbroodjes. They only need about 6-8 minutes in the oven and are delicious with jam&kaas!

[@erikmulder2574]

Hi Fi, I recognise all the products you put on for a Dutch breakfast, however this is for me the every day breakfast. In the weekend I add buns, croissants, a boiled or baked egg, some french cheeses and in your setting I am missing vleeswaren, slices of meat to put on the bread. So indeed my weekend breakfast is a bit more fancy 😊

[@ElDragow]

Cameron wearing the shirt of the goat, Portugals number 7, that boy knows ball.

[@elsotto3314]

On Sunday it’s more rich, boiled eggs, 3 kinds of different sliced meat or filet American, 2 or 3 different cheeses, chocolate sprinkles, 2 types of jam/confiture, ‘vruchtenhagel’, ‘gestampte muisjes’,rusk or biscuits or knackebröd, sliced tomatoes,cucumber, tea,milk,jus d’orange or coffee. And yes it takes a while before you are finished. We have on Sundays brunch (breakfast/lunch at the same time).

[@eddys.3524]

Hi Fi, thanks for the video. Of course there are more variations to the Dutch breakfast. In the drinking department there also are : tea, coffee, milk or water. You've shown the Rijstwafels, but typically Dutch is Beschuit, nice with butter and sprinkles, cheese or meat. On slices of bread you also can have a soft boiled egg, a hard boiled egg sliced, baked egg, slices of meat, saucage, bacon.. You can even bake two slices of bread with cheese between them (take care because it will burn if you don't add enough fat and make the pan too hot).. the possibilities are endless... Good luck experimenting!

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

Bacon, use katenspek, zeeuwse spek, for on bread, and bacon if you want to fry it with egg.

[@AlexK-yr2th]

Nice video! Love your observations instead of going with presets, assumptions and subjectives like many other US vloggers. A few points though, I want to add a few things or correct here and there to make the story complete. We always have peanut butter, hagelslag, chocolade pasta, jam, etc on the table but that is not the main choice. It is more added choices that come out of the kitchen cupboard with every breakfast and lunch as an extra choice. The main thing we put on our bread are sliced meats, cheese, fried egg and salads (try Hema). When it comes to the meats, we always offer 4-5 different varieties along with 1-2 types of cheese (depending on household budget). Normally its sliced bread (a few types often) and on weekends with extra choices like croissants or bagels. Cream cheese is absolutely not Dutch, Goudkuipje (spreadable cheese) maybe although most dont consider it reel cheese (its a Dutch national thing). The presentation you showed in your video, leans very much to the items that are kept in the cupboard and not those that come from the fridge, that are, to be precise, what we mostly eat for breakfast and lunch on our bread. It's a bit out of balance. The emphasis on Dutch breakfast/lunch is on what you buy from the "bakker", "slager" and "kaasboer", not what is processed in a factory. We hardly eat bacon (fried pork belly) but every butcher has a variety of maybe up to 12-15 different kinds of ham (the backside). Try the "ruwe ham" or Canadian ham, among a lot of other sliced meats like "gebraden gehakt" (meatloaf) all kind of paté's (spreadable meat, often liver), zult (brain) or even fried lever (the last 2 are old fashioned foods that is not to everyone's taste though), same as the rice crackers that are an acquired taste to many. The weekend breakfast is often more of a brunch while breakfast and lunch are very alike in typical Dutch households. For breakfast, even on weekends, it's often a lot of cruesli and muesli variations with yogurt. During the week, when in a hurry, we even have the option of a liquid breakfast that contains all the necessary vitamins, fibers and minerals in a bottle. And the fresh orange juice is there (usually not freshly squeezed but "appelsientje" (100% orange juice)) but almost all families, specially with children, a glass of milk is always present. In my family, young or old, never a breakfast without a glass of milk. One important note: all these sweet things on the table that are always there, doesnt mean you can choose what you want. In most parts of the country, specially when teaching children and adult therefor set the example, kids are taught from young age to have their first 2-3 slices with savory food before they can choose the sweet stuff to fill their stomachs and grownups unconsciously do the same. "Hagelslag" might appear on most tables but contrarily to very strong American Expat believes (and a lot of clickbaits on KZbin), we hardly eat it. It is more a narrative of expat believe to justify their chocolate pop tarts and many present The Netherlands as a country where our main diet consists of stroopwafels, raw herring, hagelslag, apple pie, bitterballen, snacks from a wall dispenser and more things like that, while in reality its just an added option, often as a snack and never as a meal, but never as portraited by tourists, expats and immigrants as an amusing, almost hilarious, Dutch food habit that, in reality, is so far from the truth. And although nowadays you can find pancake restaurants allover to cater to tourists (that are no different from any pizza honestly), a typical Dutch pancake is a thin pancake made of flour, milk and egg with a little salt and baking soda, fried in a pan with butter and topped with sirop, honey or even jam and then rolled up and cut up into slices. These are not uncommon to eat for breakfast as well.

[@weeardguy]

I love how you mention she does not make that much assumptions, while your comment doesn't differ from your personal experiences of breakfast, while your comment does seem to speak for everyone else. But truth is I have never seen bagels for breakfast before nor do I ever heard people I know mention it as part of breakfast. We not 'always offer 4 of 5 varieties' of sliced meat: if one can't afford it or lives alone, you either have to eat a lot to stop it from growing mould, or just by just 1 or 2 varieties. That YOU eat a lot of cruesli and muesli variations with yoghurt is fine, but I (again) don't know people (Dutch or foreign) who do that in the weekends. And chocolate sprinkles? Come on... that's one of those items that is usually always present at the table and always eaten on one slice of bread. No, we don't live on a diet of all unhealthy stuff, but it sure is a main item for breakfast. And as for savoury stuff: I always have a hard time eating savoury stuff in the morning, while something sweet goes down no problem. My mom and dad do the same for everyday breakfast, so it's just something I grew up with, while lunch indeed has the '2 savoury items first, than you're allowed something sweet' embedded into my brain, something I still adhere too. I'm already glad I managed to cut down on my sweet-tooth by going from 5 slices of bread with sweet stuff on it to just 2 and replacing the other 3 slices with a deep plate of porridge with nothing in it. But during the 3 breaks I have at work 9 slices of bread with just savoury stuff go down, so I do compensate ;)

[@cloudspecs3864]

You Son speaks great dutch

[@livinglife.digital3399]

Thank you!

[@ilsefaber683]

Yes! With the perfect g!

[@denisehofland3723]

The butter on the pancakes i always do to. I cut small sizes of roomboter an put it on the pancakes. You can also buy the small packages of roomboter in some stores to put on a pancake. Have a nice sunday❤!

[@lindaraterink6451]

The butter squares you talk about is our roomboter. It comes in a big chunk so you'd have to cut it to size. And yes poffertjes aren't really a breakfast thing in the Netherlands more like a snack or desert, but it is not forbidden to eat it for breakfast if you like that. Just do it.

[@marcusfranconium3392]

Traditionaly and i talk about how it was for a long time . You might have Havermout or Brinta ( types of porridge ) Jam. Hagelslag . Vlokken . gestampte muisjes.( powderd muisjes ) Ham , cheese , Fried egg ( often all at ones name an uitsmijter ) Tomato . ( sounds weird but tastes good on a sandwich with butter ) also done on a cheese sanwich . Fruit , Apple banana or strawberries . Different types of meats. Then we have the , Speculaas , ontbijt koek on a sandwich . And of course we have the Hazelnut , peanutbutter , chocopastes , and duo penoti ( a 2 flavoured nut paste hazelnut /vanilla , Almons /chocolate . etc) And then something i used to do was getting some yoghurt , add the some of the Beschuit crums . mix it up the contrast in taste and crunch is quite nice . Also just ad some frech fruit . PS you can also use some dutch pancakes left over of the night before as breakfast , just put them in the fridge . ad jam and role them up as breakfast snack . As you can see tons of options .

[@rudolphinawelles3440]

Hi Fiona Good brackfast Some coffee or thee and that’s it. Have a nice Sunday ❤

[@eddyblommaert5676]

Cam: then I grab some..hagelslag..., the languagemix says it all...:)

[@livinglife.digital3399]

😊

[@jannetteberends8730]

Rijstwafel with Nutella and hagelslag. Why did I never thought about that? It’s brilliant. Nutella sticks better than butter. Normally I have salted butter and take it out of the fridge so it becomes soft. Two slices of bread, and between I try to capture as much hagelslag as possible. Typical breakfast for me is one slice of bread with cheese and one slice with something sweet. This also used to be typical Dutch when I was a kid, the one sweet, one “hartig”, (= cheese or some meat) combination. I’m almost 70, so that can be different nowadays. And then I drink something very not-Dutch: I make Nescafé espresso coffee, with cold water. I’ve got that from a Vietnamese. His parents made coffee that way. It tastes better that way imo. And I don’t have to wait until it’s cold. Also made it with milk, then it’s like ice coffee. Using instant coffee and drinking it cold is almost like cursing in the church in this country. The dog gets a piece of dried chicken, and the cat some cat-snacks, and some of the sweet I have on my bread that morning He likes all kinds of marmalade and appelstroop. But his favorite is stroop. And I eat sometimes poffertjes for breakfast, the ready ones you can put in the magnetron. And I just remember I’ve got some American pancakes in the freezer. Your video made me hungry. 😊

[@mvdh877]

2:33 when I have rice cakes, which doesn't happen often I usually eat them with a slice of cheese or cheese spread on top what your son says with chocolate paste...can also be tasty I think, never tried it actually

[@AlexK-yr2th]

For the simplest of simplest recipes of a Dutch pancake... Put 1 cup of sieved all purpose flower in a bowl and add milk while u stir till the liquid is thicker, no lumps and sticks to the whisk a bit (I use a fork) but can still run off (like thicker tomato ketchup). Add a pinch of salt and a pinch of baking soda (if you use self rising flower no need for baking soda) and stir again. Then only add the egg, stir and make it a smooth consistency. Let it rest for few minutes and stir gently after that. You can add raisons, small pieces of apple (or both) or anything you can come up with but keep in mind the pancake only bakes for a short while. Heat a sauce pan but dont make it too hot because butter will burn. Add some butter in the pan and make sure the whole pan bottom has butter on it (not a lot, you're not frying). The first pancake always needs a little more butter. Put the fire on medium through out. Use a sauce ladle for measure and not a soup ladle (about half the size) and put the contents of 1 ladle in the pan and move the pan around till the liquid covers the whole pan. You can make them thicker but my experience is it is not that nice and u can also make them thinner but then you will get a Crêpe (that goes very well with ice-cream and some fresh fruits on the side btw). Heat gently/medium and when the edges start to color (not crisp), turn the pancake around and do the same (and then the edges get a little crispy). A little butter for the next one and keep repeating till the liquid has finished while with every scoop you stir a little because the thicker part of the liquid tends to go to the bottom. Spread a thin line of honey from left to right and spread it out with a knife a bit (dont need to cover the whole pancake though). Roll it up and make sure the honey is through the whole roll and cut it in 5-6 bites. You can do with sirup, jam or any other thing you like but only use a little. I needs to be a good balance. Enjoy!

[@livinglife.digital3399]

I'm going to have to try this! Thanks for the recipe, Alex!

[@AlexK-yr2th]

@@livinglife.digital3399 Lemme know if you liked it. Its really only a few minutes to make...

[@AlexK-yr2th]

@@livinglife.digital3399 Have you tried? Im curious.

[@destinyk3612]

Are you all still in The Netherlands? I hope you are well. Hope you can update soon ♥️

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

Cheese sandwich, tea, ..

[@Linda-hs1lk]

A Dutch breakfast in the weekend is more than this. Meat, eggs, hagelslag etc.

[@ikkezegtie]

we have those buttersquares too, but hard to find

[@RFGfotografie]

Great video and great kid :)

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

Children drink milk at breakfast, adults tea...

[@hildelouisevrijs774]

Hi Fiona and Cameron, Cam is right, the rice crackers are very good, crunchy and also healthy! I eat them every morning, one with cheese and one with vegetarian liver pate. (and I put some blueberries on the last one) In the weekends we often take a fried egg on “normal” bread, or a croissant, so a few things extra.❤️ from Hil.

[@AlexK-yr2th]

I always have the understanding that mainly women like rice crackers after they went on a diet or when they are attempted one. Never heart anyone really like, or even love them. They are pretty tasteless to be honest. And for sure not healthy (its just dried rice) but a good alternative thats is not unhealthy but neutral with almost no calories. But no calories doesnt mean healthy...😛

[@hildelouisevrijs774]

@@AlexK-yr2th The crunchiness plus what you put on it makes it tasty to me! And low calories are good for nearly everyone!

[@RFGfotografie]

On special days like with Easter. It even get's more crazy then this. At least as far as I know it. Daneroll croissants 24 pieces, 6 pieces. Some baked breads. With all kinds of stuff on it. A glass of orange juice and a cup of tea. And most of the time also an egg cooked or baked to go with it. It's SO good. I really love it. Would love to do/eat it more often. But in the weekend for me. It's sleeping out till 2 PM OR an event that already starts at 7AM. So most of the time I eat the same as I eat on normal days: Oranjevla :)

[@hunchbackaudio]

We never skip eggs fried and cooked and the “afbakbroodjes” in the weekend. We also like to make some sardines or makreel with fried unions. And don’t forget the sambal. What’s also typical for Dutch breakfast is “beschuit “.

[@lordsleepyhead]

I consider a rijstwafel to be more of a tussendoortje than a breakfast item.

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

On pancakes you put Syrup ( keukenstroop).

[@jannetteberends8730]

Or butter and brown sugar.

[@gerrygrouwe70]

The bacon you know is called here ontbijtspek it is salted and smoked. Sometimes it is rolled Sometimes not depends where you buy it. Supermarkerts rolled butcher not

[@_BlupY]

Im from the Netherlands

[@fukkoff2024]

Any new videos coming up?

[@geertjem5232]

I like to eat yoghurt with granola, and in the winter hot oatmeal porridge with honey as my breakfast. Those pancakes looks delicious but not with the bacon and eggs. And drinking tea at breakfast is also what a lot of people do.

[@livinglife.digital3399]

I love oatmeal with honey in the winter too!

[@marcusfranconium3392]

Funny we used to break up beschuit and put it in to the yoghurt .

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

Pancakes for breakfast? Farmers in the 1950s used to eat that... I never ever have, pancakes are an evening meal in my family.

[@jannetteberends8730]

My great grandmother did. She lived in Klazienaveen, near Emmen. Loved to stay with her, for the pancakes with bacon. And her shrubs with white redcurrants.

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

And we use knives and forks :)

[@livinglife.digital3399]

😅

[@CuriouzComedian]

I'm probably not Dutch anymore. Overnight everything must have changed. A 'typically Dutch breakfast' with that load of sweets, I never ate in all my seventy years living in this country. Weird!

[@livinglife.digital3399]

😂

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

No boiled egg??? Hagelslag? Ham or other meat stuff for on bread? Leverworst?

[@livinglife.digital3399]

I meant to include the boiled egg but forgot😅

[@patp8526]

Missing milk