Eat a little, drink a lot: a recipe for the King's Day party at the Dutch embassy

Serves:

enough to get about 150 people drunk on fairly empty stomachs

Ingredients:

•  1 large embassy, slightly stale:

•  1 tiny queen, abdicated but not forgotten, wearing royal purple:

•  1 drizzle of foamy beer, preferably the most undrinkable brand you can find:

•  a very long queue for the free bitterballen:

•  a huge dollop of disappointment at said, undercooked, bitterballen:

• some random and slightly dodgy meat snacks, such as meatballs or hachee:

    

• 1 flash of white bra:

• 1 celebrity lookalike (hello, Halina Reijn):

• a scattering of jealous looks (of the hair? of the multitude of snacks collected? of the retro glasses? We'll never know…):

• and 1 extremely proud cheese man:

• selected orange accessories, to garnish (optional):

Method:

Toss it all together, season generously with extra glugs of beer and serve lukewarm. Garnish with orange accessories if you like.

Oranjefeest 2014 - a party for and by Dutch people, organised once a year around King's Day (27 April) at the Dutch Embassy, Klosterstraße 50, 10179 Berlin. Entry with ticket only.