Hiiii, just got back from my Dutch lesson…Yes, I have been taking Dutch lessons for a year on and off. Trying to learn a language that is more difficult than the Greek language!! If your a native English speaker it’s very confusing. For example let’s say you go to the supermarket and your at the register to pay, instead of 51.00 euros which is the total amount you see, they tell you the amount is 15.00 euros, they switch the numbers around….I still can’t understand why this is done. 🙂 But I have to admit I have a super great teacher who talks slowly and I can understand her and she has helped me so I am able to understand what I’m reading 🙂 at least most of the time and I can also write a bit, but talking Uxxxxxx!!!…That’s a whole different story. 🙂 I also have my Dutch friends who have been super supportive and try to talk to me in Dutch but then for some reason the conversation quickly turns into English..hehehe (back to the recipe) 🙂

One of the first things my mom gave me before I got married was a Greek Cookbook from a Greek Chef from back in the 60’s. When I started going through the Cookbook I noticed that it had some wonderful recipes and colorful pictures, at the time I thought to myself how so far ahead of his time he was for a Greek Chef. (When we first moved to the Netherlands the first thing I packed was this cookbook just love it) The first recipe I tried from his cookbook, and mind you I was barely speaking, writing or reading Greek at the time