The concept is simple. You take small bits of meat and vegetables and grill them on your own personalized pan. Eating like this leaves plenty of time for talking while you wait for your meat to cook, and also leads to exciting combinations of flavors!
Dessert were pancakes cooked in the pans. We soaked them in Grand Marnier and then set them on fire!
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Traditional Christmas breakfast is little sprinkles, sort of like hagelslag, which are basically anise seeds covered in a candy coating. A tradition in the Netherlands is to bring toasted pieces of bread and these sprinkles in to work places or to gatherings when a child is born (pink for girls, blue for boys). So for Christmas, we eat blue sprinkles - to celebrate Jesus' birth!
A point if you can name these little sprinkles, what their name translates to, and why this bizarre name is given to these sprinkles!
Muisjes - meaning little mice - because the candied anise seeds are shaped like mice (the stems of the seeds even look like tails).
ReplyDeleteIs it truly fair for the person who was there eating the Muisjes and learning all about them to get a point for answering the question? If it is not fair I will answer it. They are called muisjes which means little mice and because the anise seeds have little "tail-like" extensions to the seed. =P
ReplyDeleteBut you can give the point to the mad scientist... as I am afraid of what he might do to me if he doesn't get it.
Good job mad scientist. (He still had to look up the answer.)
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