I was contemplating titling this post ‘March: bloody difficult’ but then berated myself for my cynical pessimism. If anything, March has only been bloody difficult because I made it that way.
You see, while my seasonal blog entries usually relate to food that is in season in Holland in general, this month presented an added challenge. I am writing an article that requires me to source the ingredients for a dinner party by bike – and I don’t just mean a quick peddle to the Noordermarkt. While dairy products were available from ‘zuivelboerderijen’ in abundance, I wouldn’t really categorise goat’s cheese and eggs as seasonal ingredients. And fruit and vegetables are notoriously hard to come by anywhere in March. So pears (Geiser Wildeman stoofperen, to be precise) and ‘Winterpostelein’ (a salad leaf resembling lamb’s lettuce) were my saviours… Here’s what I made with them:
The article will be published in the May issue of Time Out Amsterdam.