What do you call this (Pariyal especially)

[ritaxis]

In the hostel breakfast in Amsterdam there was this breakfast meat -- like US lunchmeat, sort of like sausage -- which was identified only as "chicken." It was as fine-grained and smooth as bologna and had little sprinkles of vegetables and maybe herbs throughout it. It tasted like chicken soup, and I loved it. What is its name? I want to find it but without a name, I don't know how.

I think I like the habit of proteinaceous sandwiches for breakfast (can't eat creal and milk anyway and shouldn't eat sweet rolls and so forth).



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Comments

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i'd say probably "kip met tuinkruiden". sorta like this one on the left (http://www.leijdensbeleg.nl/resources/56/5623D713-8DA7-4C3E-A9F5-BF134414B694.jpg), which is "kiprollade", but kiprollade has pieces of actual chicken in it in addition to the herbs. "kip met tuinkruiden" will find you both, the sausage and recipes for chicken with herb crusts and the like; it might take a while to find a good picture to confirm (google image search isn't helpful). when it's listed under "ontbijt" (breakfast) or "koffietafel" (lunch), then it's the stuff you're looking for.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

That's it! You're right, it's exactly like that except it's smooth all the way through. I bet I wouldn't mind it with chunks of chicken.

Okay, then. off to google.

Humph. It seems as if "kip met tuinkruiden" means more than one thing. There's a Dutch grocer's in San Jose and they have a bouillon called that. Only I didn't figure it out before I sent them a note asking for it.

But. There's a Dutch grocer's in San Jose! That's very cool.

[tavella.livejournal.com]

You should go soon, though. If it's the one I'm thinking of (and I think there's only one Dutch grocery in San Jose), it's probably closing within the next year because the owner is planning on retireing.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I wonder if your regular butcher could order it for you. I can get almost anything from the Giant if I request ahead of time.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

yeah, there are several things that come up when one searches for it; "kip met tuinkruiden" means "chicken with garden herbs", so that catches any number of things. "kiprollade" on the other hand is fairly unique; it comes with an without herbs. i personally like the chunks better than the bologna-style. the flavour will of course depend a bit on who makes it as well.

that is indeed very cool, to find a dutch grocer nearby ... wait. you are not in san jose, are you?

i'll have a look whether my two local dutch places have it (one in town, one 30 min away), and ask whether they know if there's a US distributor for dutch groceries.

i get homesick every time i walk in there. :) then i walk out with a kg of drop, and all is well with the world.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I'm not in San Jose, but it's a half-hour drive on a good day (twice that on a bad day). We already go over the hill for groceries sometimes: there's the Mitsuwa Japanese grocery store, and Ranch 99 the Pan-Asian grocery store, and um is it the Milk Pail over by Jules which she likes because it has interesting cheese, some nice produce, and English food. Emma's boyfriend's mother has mentioned that she'd like to go on a Ranch 99 expedition and I think we could fold the Dutch grocery into that.

[pariyal.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's exactly what I was going to say.