i would like to cook for my dutch boyfriend but im stuck any ideas? (have no experiance with dutch food, help)?!

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I think your cuisines are not extremely different, but what he means when he says "it's too english" is that it is too bland.

When I visited the Netherlands, the food was very flavorful and rich. There was lots of beef, pork, sausages, fish, stews, dairy items, potatoes, fried foods, and more pastries than I have ever seen assembled in one place lol. All brimming with spices. English food while rich in nature too seems to fall down in the spice department.

"A traditional Dutch main meal would include mashed potatoes sometimes mixed with green vegetables (“stamppot”), pork in the form of smoked sausage or bacon cubes and a rich gravy. Meat balls are also popular served with gravy and potatoes. Lamb and mutton are rarely eaten and hard to find, horse meat is popular, however. Some of the more unusual vegetables often eaten are sauerkraut, chicory and kale.

Thick soups form another popular meal, the most famous being “erwtensoep”, a substantial pea and ham soup containing the ubiquitous smoked sausage and brown bean soup (“bruinebonensoep”) with brown beans replacing the peas."

I got the above quote from this site which has some pretty decent recipes: http://www.nlplanet.com/nlguides/traditi…

i found this link...have a look at it for ideas.
http://dutchfood.about.com/od/aboutdutchcooking/tp/Top10NewDutchDishes.htm
hope it helps.

dutchfood.about.com/.../aboutdutchcook…

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any kind of sausages, especially things like kielbasa, etc
picked foods are fairly common
any sort of stews are common in dutch cuisine too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_cuisi…

Here are some Belgian Recipes.

http://recipes.wuzzle.org/index.php/32

go to the library, they have great cookbooks.

Just go online and do a google search, you'll find something.