dutch farm

Eezie cafemy dept vp invited the whole dept to a barbq on his farm yesterday, it was a very enjoyable experience for us both, the place is very much in the sticks, but not too deep in the sticks..nice drive up past the countryside and managed to drive along a dijk which is flooded with modern windmill...holland is a very windy place after all...the host has a nice old tractor, a '135' for those tractor experts..tapi tak dapat drive...but his wife reckons it could be arranged if they do it again...its cycling to badminton today...enjoying the brief nice weather, got a workout on the courts today....justified a little oily pesto chicken pasta...right now munching on freshly roasted cashew nuts...straight out of the oven...very tasty!

perfect dutch summer

Eezie cafe
the perfect dutch summer....rain...cloudy...cold north winds...
but that wasnt how the day started, took a day off today, for once....we pergi to a town in the north called alkmaar, famous for its cheese market..ni bukan macam pasar taman tun, tapi a ceremonial presentation of how the belanda do a show menjual cheese....menarik jugak the show...lots of people surrounded the town square in front of the cheese museum, where it takes place every friday from april to september...mostly germans actually, some other europeans, japanese/asians incl. us. the town is actually very nice to walk and visit...worth adding it to the list to bring visitors to...we got some cheese, of course, a huge ball of edam...apparently you shouldnt get the red coloured ones, those are factory made...you should get the farm made ones...yellow coloured waxy cover...tenguklah how it tastes like though..
we also got a wok steamer from a cooking shop having a small sale...hmm..look forward to some nice steam fish or kueh pau...i quite miss the pau tanjung malim...during those days on the way down from penang to kl...i used to buka puasa with those pau's as well....heavenly stuff...
lets hope the weather is not so perfectly dutch this weekend...plan nak pergi tenguk some kapal in amsterdam...ada show this weekend...boleh check out at htttp://www.sail.nl/english