one of the last winter things

Here’s another one in the category “how Dutch are you”, from last week, when it was still a bit colder than now. (Spring photos coming soon!)

You stroll over the market Saturday morning and among the kiwi fruits and the Maori yams and the Australian oranges, you notice kale.
Boerenkool. The unofficial national dish of the Netherlands. That always makes your foreign friends wonder what is wrong with a whole nation to eat a pulp of stiff green leaves and mashed potatoes.
Of course I bought it. The stand next to it, which sells happy pork meat, even had the required smoked sausage.