The best breakfast

A lonely forgotten banana

MASH

One egg

Mix and pour in a pan

Flip and serve

Served here with goat yoghurt and home stewed strawberries.

Disclaimer: presented better with aid of a spatular for more perfect flipping. 

“Hollandse Nieuwe”

We biked by a 'Nieuwe Haring' sign and our local tour guide suggested we stop to try a traditional dutch snack. Not knowing what to expect Liv, Rios and I agreed. I waited outside to watch our bikes, eagerly awaiting. 

Dutch Herring a silvery fish that is most abundant in the coastal waters and the Dutch are taking it far from the North Sea. The Raw Dutch Herring it’s a typical Dutch snack and it can be bought at street-side herring fish stalls.

Olivia trying her first bite. 

Quite excited by this beautifully presented snack, complete with mini dutch flag. 

Herring is actually not eaten “raw”. Yes, it looks raw and it is uncooked. However, it is not raw, but in fact “prepared” for consumption.

After the fish is caught, its head is cut off and all the guts are removed except for the pancreas, so that its enzymes can soften the fish. They are giving it its peculiar, lovable taste, smoothing texture, and making it easier to digest. This process is called in Dutch “haring kaken”.

The herring is also salted for conservation and frozen before being sold for consumption, in order to kill all possible parasites.

So, in fact, salted herring (Hollandse nieuwe) is fermented herring.

Our fine looking dutch tour guide.