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Australia has the exact blue Kraft boxes in all supermarkets. Even back home in the Netherlands, macaroni and cheese is both in my children's "my first cookboo

by roel_v 7y ago

Australia has the exact blue Kraft boxes in all supermarkets. Even back home in the Netherlands, macaroni and cheese is both in my children's "my first cookbook" style books, as well as various variations in my fashionable "comfort food" books. Also I somewhat collect old-ish cookbooks, and it's a staple in German and Belgian cookbooks from the 1950 onwards.

brnt 7y ago
I'm Dutch and have never seen this in a supermarket, nor has anyone ever served it to me, nor was is in any cookbook I ever read. Are you sure?
- tluyben2 7y ago
  Macaroni & cheese used to be pretty popular in NL when I grew up and my sisters kids love it now. I have always (and still do) hated macaroni (although I love most other pasta) which made it all the more annoying when they made it at friends’ birthday parties when I was a kid.
- Freak_NL 7y ago
  Me neither. The basic standard pasta dish in the eighties and nineties in the Netherlands was macaroni or spaghetti with bolognese sauce topped with lots of grated Gouda cheese. These days there is much more variety, and judging from the popularity of the many varieties of pasta and cheeses such as Pecorino and Parmesan in the supermarkets, many Dutch household have discovered the joys of cooking proper Italian pasta dishes. Plenty of folk here do use store-bought packages for the sauce of course, but these tend to focus on adding flavour to the meat and vegetables (tomato) that serve as the bulk of the sauce (like bolognese). Frankly, the classic US mac-and-cheese dish looks disgusting. I can only imagine how it must look to someone with an Italian heritage.
- roel_v 7y ago
  The blue box not, but macaroni with ham & cheese is in every Albert Heijn, it's one of the ready made dishes that has been available as long as I can remember. Most 'warm at home' traiteur style shops, or butcher shops nowadays, sell it as part of their rotation. If you google ah recepten or big Dutch recipe sites, you'll find dozens of variations. The 'Margriet' cookbook (to just take one example that represents mainstream Dutch cooking) has had a recipe since the first edition.

by roel_v 7y ago

brnt 7y ago

I'm Dutch and have never seen this in a supermarket, nor has anyone ever served it to me, nor was is in any cookbook I ever read. Are you sure?

tluyben2 7y ago
Macaroni & cheese used to be pretty popular in NL when I grew up and my sisters kids love it now. I have always (and still do) hated macaroni (although I love most other pasta) which made it all the more annoying when they made it at friends’ birthday parties when I was a kid.
Freak_NL 7y ago
Me neither. The basic standard pasta dish in the eighties and nineties in the Netherlands was macaroni or spaghetti with bolognese sauce topped with lots of grated Gouda cheese. These days there is much more variety, and judging from the popularity of the many varieties of pasta and cheeses such as Pecorino and Parmesan in the supermarkets, many Dutch household have discovered the joys of cooking proper Italian pasta dishes. Plenty of folk here do use store-bought packages for the sauce of course, but these tend to focus on adding flavour to the meat and vegetables (tomato) that serve as the bulk of the sauce (like bolognese). Frankly, the classic US mac-and-cheese dish looks disgusting. I can only imagine how it must look to someone with an Italian heritage.
roel_v 7y ago
The blue box not, but macaroni with ham & cheese is in every Albert Heijn, it's one of the ready made dishes that has been available as long as I can remember. Most 'warm at home' traiteur style shops, or butcher shops nowadays, sell it as part of their rotation. If you google ah recepten or big Dutch recipe sites, you'll find dozens of variations. The 'Margriet' cookbook (to just take one example that represents mainstream Dutch cooking) has had a recipe since the first edition.