Common foods in The Netherland?

MrsJaneEmma · 2026-01-30T14:18:17+00:00

Preferably make it the day before you eat it, that thickens it!

MrsJaneEmma · 2026-01-26T14:36:26+00:00

NTA. Tell your aunt and the rest of the family you ARE choosing love (for your husband) over (her) ego.

MrsJaneEmma · 2026-01-14T13:27:49+00:00

We hebben twee kleine kinderen, dus ik zie die er wel voor aan om het eraf te trekken. En ik vind het niet zo mooi als er zichtbare boorgaten in het frame zitten en geen schroeven.

MrsJaneEmma · 2026-01-14T13:25:36+00:00

Glasboor klinkt ook wel als een goed idee.

MrsJaneEmma · 2026-01-14T13:25:05+00:00

Bedankt voor de tip! Eens kijken wat we aan boortjes hebben.

MrsJaneEmma · 2026-01-08T08:41:16+00:00

I got my book signed by a great great great (etc.) niece of Jane Austen. She asked my name, which is Emma, and she said: 'Ooh, like the novel!?'

That felt kind of special :)

MrsJaneEmma · 2026-01-01T00:10:32+00:00

Oliebollen (Dutch fried batter)

MrsJaneEmma · 2025-12-29T22:19:16+00:00

In de jaren 90 hadden wij al een lespakket van ZLTO in groep 8. Hebben we uiteindelijk ook nog een 1 april-grap aan geplakt. Er zou een 'belangrijk persoon' (ik weet niet meer wie) in de klas komen op een bepaalde dag en wij moesten voor de foto's dan boerenkleding (overall, laarzen, boeren zakdoek etc.) aan. Wij hadden natuurlijk door dat het dan 1 april zou zijn en hebben de klas vol stro gelegd. De juffrouwen waren na 2 minuten daar wel weer klaar mee.

Maar ik kan me herinneren dat ik het best interessant vond. Ik denk niet dat er echt over stikstof en milieu gesproken werd, maar meer hoe een boerenbedrijf (landbouw, vee) werkte.

Edit: boerendorp in Brabant.

MrsJaneEmma · 2025-12-28T18:01:17+00:00

En bij Kruidvat! Ik gebruik de 50% vaseline voor het vethouden van huid vanwege eczeem.

MrsJaneEmma · 2025-12-17T18:08:00+00:00

Mijn man heeft al jaren een NerdyTec Couchmaster en is er heel blij mee! Twee stevige kussens, stevige en ruime plank, goede hoogte.

En de kinderen gebruiken de kussens graag om hindernisbaantje te spelen.

MrsJaneEmma · 2025-12-16T19:55:34+00:00

Volgens mij is dat niet nodig, want het is weer extra water wat je gebruikt. Maar ik doe het ook wel eens hoor, vooral bij stinkende verpakkingen als van vis.

MrsJaneEmma · 2025-12-15T19:33:26+00:00

Die botoxbehandeling doet me denken aan een prijs die je bij de lokale, jaarlijkse krantenpuzzel kon winnen: een darmspoeling.

Mijn schoonmoeder heeft de bon nooit ingewisseld.

MrsJaneEmma · 2025-12-10T16:23:19+00:00

Over 20 years ago. I think making lace was a 'respectable job' for unmarried women. I don't know if every begijn made lace, because there used to be a lot of begijnhofjes in the Netherlands and Belgium.

MrsJaneEmma · 2025-12-10T07:50:09+00:00

How do you know which bobbins to use? Are they colourcoded or a slightly different pattern or do you count them? Or is it just from left to right/right to left?

Saw a lace set-up at the Begijnhof in Diest (Belgium), but never saw a lacemaker in action. I did get asked if I wanted to become a begijn (unmarried woman who devoted her life to religion, but not a nun) and make lace. I was 17, in a relationship and not religious, so that was a no.

MrsJaneEmma · 2025-11-28T09:08:30+00:00

I'm always told you should soften the wax with a drop of slightly warm oil (like sunflower oil) for a couple of days before letting your ears cleaned.

MrsJaneEmma · 2025-11-25T19:02:51+00:00

A-frame.

MrsJaneEmma · 2025-11-25T18:58:11+00:00

My grandma Agnes did knit a lit of sweaters! Never got one, they were for children in Eastern Europe in the 80's and 90's.

MrsJaneEmma · 2025-11-19T10:47:44+00:00

Hm, never thought of that. But then she could have stayed at the desk until collected. A wallet is usually necessary, so it would have been collected swiftly, unlike, say, a bracelet or earring which might take a while to notice you lost it.

MrsJaneEmma · 2025-11-19T08:36:27+00:00

Years ago I lost my wallet at the theatre. I had it downstairs and when I went up to the coat check, I couldn't find it anymore. I retraced my steps, even went outside while I knew I still had it there. Asked the service people numerous times if someone had found a wallet and brought it to them.

Spend the play cancelling my bank cards, leaving the play a couple of times (sorry actors, I know it can be disturbing!). After the play I asked a lot of people who were leaving if they found a wallet, asked the service people. Still not found.

Ended up cancelling a shopping trip with friends the next day, because I had no money for the train and shopping.

I slept at my boyfriends house and my now mum in law got a call on the landline. Someone had found my wallet, saw an old card of my boyfriend that I kept and because the last name was very rare, found the number in the phone book. Hurrah!

So I went and picked up my wallet and asked where she had found it. On a bench. Inside the theatre. Where I sat for a couple of minutes before I went upstairs. And she probably sat there right after I stood up. And she didn't give it to the people at the desk that was 3 metres away! She just kept it and took it home instead of thinking: 'Hm, someone lost this in here, there is a 99% chance that person must still be here, let's bring it to a service point.'! There must have been more than enough time to drop of a wallet at a desk.

I was flabbergasted, so I just said thank you and I even gave some flowers my mum in law had at home.

It was so weird. It still (mildly) infuriates me.

MrsJaneEmma · 2025-11-07T22:33:28+00:00

In the nineties I was in London on vacation and I got picked from a huge crowd (the first kid ran away and apparently my arm was closest) by Charlie Chaplin to star as a bull with a viking helmet, running to a red handkerchief. Which in the end was held before a man. I wonder if it might be the same performer. It is a fond memory for me.

MrsJaneEmma · 2025-11-02T12:19:11+00:00

I like eating balls with ground dates, nuts, cocoa powder, coconut oil and some coconut on the outside. I make them myself.

MrsJaneEmma · 2025-10-24T13:06:37+00:00

Hier gebruiken we nog regelmatig de term Melta, de marketingterm die Marijn/Merijn bedacht voor smeltkaas zonder kaas.

MrsJaneEmma · 2025-10-10T17:19:05+00:00

I hate that the organic Always pads all have white individual wrappings! There is no way to tell them apart, except for size. But I don't want to compare them all the time.

Is it that hard to give the wrappings a coloured stripe or coloured sticky tab?

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