What are some typical meals for you and your family? Special dishes? Deserts?

Question

Do you have a special meal you request for your birthday or other holiday? What was your favorite meal as a child?

Answer 1

My personal request was Chicken with unburned bits. (Family joke, we had chicken in a curry sauce with burn bits, raisins, and with unburned bits, grapes.) But it is not a traditional Dutch dish.

Other family favorites: 'boerenkool met worst' curly kale mashed with potato with heated smoked sausage.
'Zuurkool postkantoor', sauerkraut mashed with potato, pineapple and meat pieces, grated cheese on top and a little while under the grill, (the postkantoor/post office is because that is where they got this version from.)
'Bami', home made Indonesian noodles, with lots of vegetables and meat mixed into the noodles.
'Rijsttafel', selection of 6 to 20 Indonesian dishes served buffet style, home made or from a Chinese Indonesian restaurant.
'Hachee', beef with onions, cooked for hours, served with potato.
'Hutspot', potato, carrots and onions cooked together and mashed.

For afters: 'Flensjes', pancakes, 'Poffertjes', small pancakes.
Or ice cream.

Answer 2

When I go to the 'in-laws' , we eat a lot of stampot (various kinds but usually curly kale mashed with potatoes and a nice smoked sausage) , hutspot (mashed potatoes with carrots and onions. A lot of meals are mashed haha) and stofvlees (braised beef).

Sometimes we eat nasi with sate (technically Indonesian but so ingrained in Dutch diets). Pancakes (with bacon, apples and syrup - yes that combination!) aren't uncommon too.

For dessert, it's always vla ( a kind of soft custard), yoghurt,pudding or mousse. Never cake or pie (this is more like afternoon tea or sometimes an hour or two after dinner).