wim van bemmel > wrote:
> Christine Dabney wrote:
>
> > (Steve Pope) wrote:
> >>
> >>The progenitor for all such dishes is colcannon.
> >
> > The Dutch might disagree with you. They have a similar dish where
> > vegetables are mashed up together. I don't remember the exact name, but
> > it resembles something like Hodgepodge.
> >
> > Victor will probably know the name.....
>
> It is "hutspot" or "hutsepot". It consists of onions, carrots and
> potatoes 1:1:2 in weight. Boiled together in beef stock and mashed.
> Served with well done slow-cooked beef and gravy. Needs much pepper.
I am sure Christine is thinking of "stampot" (also spelt "stamppot"), a
more general dish with mashed potatoes, vegetable(s), and smoked sausage
(and often bacon) - and which encompasses the more narrowly defined
hutspot. As I remember, Haensje Claes in Amsterdam serves several
versions, including those with kale, endive, or sauerkraut.
Victor