Regional products

 

Stockfish

 stokvisYou buy stockfish and eat it on the way. Or you can install yourself, like the Oostendenaar, in an authentic fisherman's café and order a Rodenbach. Eat some unpeeled shrimp. Stockfish is a white fish that is dried on a stick in northern Norway for a drital month. It is only dried and not salted.

Speculaas: really Flemish!

 Aerts Speculaas from Waasmunster has received the Flemish recognition of traditional regional product. It is therefore the 5th Flemish speculaas baker who receives the label. Aerts is known for its sturdy speculoos with a flower and lightly spiced with cinnamon.

The recipe and form date from 1927! Can be found at the better bakery and delicacy shops ..

March 2013 - www.aertsspeculaas.be

June is grass cheese month.

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Grass cheese is a typical seasonal cheese. After a long winter in the stable, the North Holland cows can once again taste the great outdoors, tender grass with a less fibrous structure. the new grass provides the milk for a cheese with a creamy texture and milder taste. When the goats are used to the fresh grass again, the cheese becomes more pronounced and firmer. Because grass cheese has such a specific taste, it is in the store for a month once a year.

Note the Red Seal, the quality mark that is applied to the Noord-Hollandse Gouda. Only cheese from a cheese maker from North Holland, made with milk from local cows, can bear this seal.