Showing posts with label ice-cream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ice-cream. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Great weekend in Maastricht!!

This is how my Hubs and I were pampered in Maastricht....food! food! Lunch at my parents-in-law's place sometimes were of breads with cold cuts, jams, eggs and others. This weekend, my mother-in-law made this salad (small cubes of potatoes, pickles, eggs with a sourish taste to it).

We'd also a typical Limburgse food, 'zuurvlees' (sour & sweet meat) with fries :) :) Beef or horse meat are often used to make 'zuurvlees'. My mother-in-law told me this dish required a lot of work as the meat has to be cooked at a long time. However the real 'zuurvlees' are with horse meat...hmmm....that's something not for me. After the heavy and delicious lunch, we decided to take a walk around the neighbourhood. It was actually a nice walk in the woods ..... to see wheat fields, beautiful gardens and flowers, pear and cherry trees along the way. However the last few meters before our pitstop at a cafe, our path was blocked by a few black cows that were chilling right in the middle of it! Boy, was I terrified when I'd to walk pass them and seriously it was so close especially one of them were staring hard at us for a long time before we made our way to pass them. Thank god nothing happened :) I definitely deserved a nice cool drink after that passing :) In the end, I'm still a city gal at heart :P Big farm animals still terrifies me :P

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Best Ice-cream in Town

The best ice-cream in town! Or the Dutchies will call it 'ijs' literally means ice-cream. The shop "De Ijssalon" is located in the city centrum of Rotterdam along the Meent street. Long queues can be seen in the shop especially during hot days and mind you we are now having a good spring weather - sunny days most of the time ;)

I was pleasantly surprised that this little shop produced such yummy 'ijs'. The texture is how I would describe it as 'just-right', not too rich, not too sweet. They do come in so many choices from Cherry Mania, Bourbon Vanilla, Rum & Raisin (my favourite), all sort of sorbets to Applepie, Hazelnut & Almond flavoured 'ijs'. It's also very affordable! 3 scoops in a tub cost only EUR2,50. My Hubs always go for 5 scoops!