{"id":574,"date":"2007-07-19T11:28:28","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T11:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/07\/19\/young-gouda-im-coming-for-ya\/"},"modified":"2007-07-19T11:28:28","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T11:28:28","slug":"young-gouda-im-coming-for-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/07\/19\/young-gouda-im-coming-for-ya\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Gouda, I&#8217;m coming for ya&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was seven, my folks moved our family to Holland where we lived for the next five years.  A big motivator for this trip has been my longstanding desire to make that return to wooded Wassenaar with my wife and kids &#8212; a little journey back to Narnia, to smell old smells and eat old treats.<br \/>\nBecause I was a kid back in those days, almost all of my key food memories are snacks, and ever since we entered Belgium, I&#8217;ve been knocking items off my list like some revenge-driven dude in a Clint Eastwood flick.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"frites_cv.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215a\/frites_cv.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nFrites met (fries with mayonnaise): check.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"croq_cv.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215a\/croq_cv.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nMeat croquettes (&#8220;What&#8217;s in them? What&#8217;s in them? We don&#8217;t know!&#8221; laughed our waitress who confessed she never ate the stuff): check.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cassis_cv.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215a\/cassis_cv.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nCassis soda: check. (OK, seven Cassis sodas: check)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"poffertjes_cv.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215a\/poffertjes_cv.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nPoffertjes (micro-pancakes with powerdered sugar): check.<br \/>\nPankoeken (crepes-like macro-pancakes): check. Stropwaffles (molasses &#8216;n waffel\/cookie treat): check. No photos for either of these, unfortunately &#8212; they went too fast to capture.<br \/>\nJust about all that&#8217;s left is jonge (young) Gouda &#8212; you can get Gouda cheese in the States but it&#8217;s almost always smoked, with all the Gouda (pronounced with a Yiddish-esque &#8220;chhhh&#8221;-ouda)-ness blown out. Jonge Gouda&#8217;s a whole different taste sensation. If heaven was made of cheese, it would be thin-sliced jonge Gouda.<br \/>\nJonge Gouda, I&#8217;m coming for ya&#8230;.<br \/>\n<b>Addendum&#8230;.<\/b><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gouda_cv.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215a\/Gouda_cv.jpg\" width=\"351\" height=\"270\" \/><br \/>\nJonge Gouda: check.<br \/>\n<b>Addendum to addendum&#8230;<\/b><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"strop_CV.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215a\/strop_CV.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nA slower-moving stropwaffle.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pankoeken_cv.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215a\/pankoeken_cv.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nLikewise, this pankoeken with kiwi was eaten in 14 seconds rather than the usual 10, giving us just enough time to snap a quick pic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was seven, my folks moved our family to Holland where we lived for the next five years. A big motivator for this trip has been my longstanding desire to make that return to wooded Wassenaar with my wife and kids &#8212; a little journey back to Narnia, to smell old smells and eat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-log"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}