Does food cure all fights? Some, not all.

We were all set for a nice dinner on our last night in Amsterdam at Moeder's (Mother's) -- recommended by a local.  Good down home cooking.  The concierge said you have to like Dutch food.  "Do you mean herring, fish?" I asked.  "No, meat, potatoes, sausage".  Who doesn't like that?

Tram # 13 or 17 goes there -- a tram we hadn't taken before.  We typically took the 2, 5 or 7 to see the sights.  I spotted tram 13 & 17 further down to the right as David looked on the platform we usually waited on.  Come one David, its down there--I start to run there as I see a 13 leaving.  Suddenly I turn around and he is gone.  I peak out from behind a different tram (not willing to get run over).  I scream out, "Daaavid, Daviiid".  Nothing.

I wait and wonder, what the hell just happened?  Did he vanish in to thin air?  Get kidnapped?  Go home?  I'm fuming, waiting, looking..  Where the hell are you?

I realize he is not there.  I have better things to do than wait by myself on a train platform.  I call him and leave a message, "Where the f--- are you?".

He texts me he is on the 13 tram.  I want to kill him.  We text back and forth a bonanza of expletives and I want to find an international divorce lawyer.  Who leaves their wife on the platform?  I take the next 17 and follow the directions the concierge gives.  I get off and don't see him............Oh God, but there he is at the back.  Grumble grumble, why would you get on a tram without me????

We walk three blocks to the restaurant.  He orders a beer, I order white wine.  Pictures of mothers all over the walls (Mom's good down home cooking).  We share the special "Dutch Ricedish" which is a sampler of three famous dutch dishes:

• Suddervlees - typical Dutch...granny’s recipe for stewed beef (braised steak),onion flavor
  
  

  

  Its in the red pot on the left

• Hotchpotch - the real Dutch “stamppot ” of mashed potatoes with vegetables

• Hachée - hashed meat...also Dutch, served with boiled potatoes & red cabbage

Look at all the little pots

I really liked the sauerkraut and red cabbage that comes with it.  No room for dessert although we heard apple pie is famous in Amsterdam.  Does food cure all fights?  Some not all.

http://www.moeders.com/en/home