Chocolate-y breakfast
I thought I'd show you some
Dutch haute cuisine today. Just joking of course... as far as I know
nothing haute can be found here, just cuisine!
But I would like to show you
my typical breakfast: bread and chocolate.
Let's start with example A:
Vlokken = crinkly chocolate pieces
This is the dark chocolate
variety. It also comes in milk, white, a combination of milk & white,
orange & milk and banana & milk, but the dark chocolate is our
favourite.
Example B:
Hagelslag = chocolate sprinkles
This is also the dark
variety, but as you can imagine it also comes in white and milk, thick and
thin. I really should have taken a photo of the aisle in the supermarket... the choice is enormous!
Example C:
This a new thing, so I thought I would give it a try. However, it's not really doing it for me... Still, the children and I had fun, coming up with three letter words.
So a slice of bread along with a nice mug of tea is my breakfast. Now I would love to know what did you have for breakfast today?
PS Although I'm a chocoholic and I love to eat, but I did not eat all these slices of bread today!!
PS2
That looks like my kind of breakfast! And hooray for Amber!
Posted by: Melissa | July 14, 2008 at 10:57 AM
Do you really have bread and chocolate for breakfast every morning? That sounds so decadent! During the school year we eat porridge every morning. In the summer we usually have toast and cheese or peanut butter.
Posted by: sarah | July 14, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Congratulations Amber! You did it. Swimming Diploma C!!
The Plakkiez are new to me!
Every morning I eat biogarde roer with cornflakes, fruits & fibers and chocolate cornflakes accompanied by a glass of pomegranate juice and lots of tea.
Posted by: nicolette | July 14, 2008 at 12:06 PM
My children have nutella on bread for breakfast at the weekends, so I'm sure they'll love this post!
This morning I had toast with peanut butter, sliced bananas and ground cinnamon- delicious!
Posted by: sarah | July 14, 2008 at 02:15 PM
Mmmm...my oldest loves the milk chocolate and the colored sprinkle ones on his toast practically every morning! There is a specialty store near us that carries these dutch treats. I think we learned many Dutch things from our NZ friends whose parents are from Denmark. They've also introduced us to a particular brand of stroopwaffles. Good good for my tastebuds, but bad bad for my waistline.
BTW - come and see what you've won!
Posted by: Ellen | July 14, 2008 at 02:54 PM
Yumms! Chocolate on bread ~ what a smashing idea!
One of my recent breakfast meals:
http://emilycookingforays.blogspot.com/2008/07/other-recent-meals.html
Banana on bread!
Posted by: emily | July 14, 2008 at 03:03 PM
wow - who knew chocolate came in that many shapes? the milk/white version would be my fave.
Posted by: kirsten | July 14, 2008 at 03:13 PM
I will have a post about my breakfast on my blog a bit later today... I would be in so much trouble if we had those options in the states... Holy cow, my inner chocoholic would be hard to control!! Looks yummy. The chocolate orange combo sounds interesting. I think I would have to try it all.
Posted by: Willow Caroline | July 14, 2008 at 03:18 PM
If you love chocolate and bread in the morning or any time for that matter, you have to try a fresh biscuit and what we call chocolate gravy, it's pretty much homemade hot pudding. It's doesn't taste like the instant pudding or the kind you make from a box but it is very good. If you would like the recipe just let me know, it's very easy to make.
Posted by: Gina | July 14, 2008 at 03:21 PM
My two big girls will not believe it when I show them your breakfast choices! We have cereal, porridge or yoghurt and fruit most days with Sundays being pancake day - a real treat!One day I will have to surprise them with chocolate on bread for breakfast - somehow I think they might be happy about that!
Posted by: marianne | July 14, 2008 at 03:27 PM
Every morning when we get up and go downstairs to start our day, I ask my little one, "What do you want for breakfast?" And every day, she pauses, pretends to think, and says, "Ummmm, chocolate." And I always say, "no, you can't have chocolate for breakfast. What else do you want?" And she pretends to think for two more seconds and says, "Well, how 'bout lollipops?" And on and on. It's our routine, and makes me smile. Now, one of these days, when she says "Chocolate," maybe I'll actually do it! I think I'd shock her socks right off!
Posted by: Michelle | July 14, 2008 at 05:24 PM
holy moly! what cool chocolate. Those slices are about the coolest thing I have even seen!
Posted by: Katie | July 14, 2008 at 05:47 PM
Oh how that brings back memories, from when I lived in Germany and used to go shopping in Venlo....I used to love Chocolate Sprinkles.
Yes the choice is just toooo much. And thats not just chocolate sprinkles that is everything....:-)
Posted by: anne | July 14, 2008 at 06:56 PM
Wow, I feel really boring. I have Kashi cereal and some eggs on most days, or ricotta with fruit, but usually eggs with fruit. No chocolate for me in morning or else I would eat chocolate non-stop all day long... But it DOES look REALY good. :D
Posted by: Stephania | July 14, 2008 at 11:25 PM
Whenever we go back to Holland to visit (as we just did a few weeks ago), I always think that if the Americans caught on to chocolate on bread, we'd be even bigger than we are... So shhhh! ;-) The fact that you didn't eat all that in one day (and the fact that you were probably on your bike that day as well) is what distinguishes the Dutch diet from the American, even with all the Dutch sweet treats.
Posted by: Emmie (Better Make It A Double) | July 15, 2008 at 06:31 AM
oh my....now THAT's my kind of breakfast! mmmmmmmm
Posted by: star | July 25, 2008 at 01:45 PM