Remember all the Dutch delights I bought?
Well, not all of the products are real delights but some of them are just reminding me of my childhood and how much I liked them at the time. One of the things I showed you when I received my box filled with Dutch goodies was "Aardappel Anders" which directly translates to "Potato different". It's as simple as a sauce in a pot which you can buy in a few flavors and then add to your potatoes, shove it in the oven and voila, in 30 minutes you have yourself a dish with very little effort. At least, that goes for the sauce. The rest takes a bit of preparation even with the ready to use sauce in a pot.
Ham & Cheese flavor
I ordered the ham & cheese flavor only this time, I ordered two as I didn't remember if I used to need 1 or two pots for the oven dishes. I prepped some potatoes by cooking them (not fully, so they are quite easy to slice) and then covering the baking tin with a layer of potatoes and add a layer of the sauce on top. I added one more layer of potatoes and covered it with a nice thick layer of the sauce. I decided to give it another twist as I know our daughter loves broccoli prepped in the oven, therefore I added a layer of broccoli on top to test this out. I baked it for 30 to 40 minutes on 200 degrees Celsius.
Not as good as I remembered
I think we all have these things that were so good during our childhood and when eating it in our adult life, it's not that special anymore, well this was one of these things for me. Not that it was bad or horrible, not at all, it just was not as great as I remembered it was. I also blame my attempt on adding some broccoli on top for that because normally the sauce is nice and brown by the time the dish is done, this time only the edges were like that. I have one pot left and next time I will only use potatoes to get that delicious crust as I remember it from when I was a child. Nevertheless, it was nice to have this again, I don't think I will order it again anytime soon, as I'm now quite used to making my own sauces for dinner, which often tastes much better than any pot of sauce!
Thanks for reading!