Some if not most Dutch would say this is the national dish, or type of dish, traditional stamppot… I usually buy this fresh made and add gravy and sausage but after noticing the price hike this season (it’s typical fall/winter food) I made the most popular two myself. Stamppot was hell in most cases when I was young, boiled potatoes + boiled veggies like most days, but stamped, mashed. I don’t like endive, or raw yellow onions with my carrots (which makes ‘hutspot’), childhood trauma food. 4 decades later my tastebuds changed quite a bit but I still won’t eat endive, I just see no reason considering the many alternatives.
Endive… wife loves it, of course.
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Ok that doesn’t sound very appetizing… let me fix that with some sizzling smoked bacon:
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Good stamppot, like most good things in life, gets better with bacon. Lots of bacon.
My fermented food, with a few tbsp of applejuice.
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Stamping the potatoes with a stamper (also includes a little milk and butter)
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Not all stamppot comes with bacon, but in any case it needs rookworst, smoked sausage, which is like a fat smoked wiener of quality meat (more sturdy than a typical hotdog), which allows for a whole lot of mustard. This is like the Coca Cola of dutch smoked sausage:
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What’s also good with mustard is gravy, stamppot needs lots of gravy. Basically you make a cup in the stamppot and poor a bunch of gravy in it. Beef gravy, with some of the bacon juice.
Wife’s version, endive stamppot.
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My plate, zuurkool, or as the germans say: sauerkraut. In our case it’s synonymous with sauerkraut stamppot but it makes total sense to me to put it on a hotdog sandwich.
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