Holland America is elevating its “Made Fresh Daily” menu with handcrafted breads, pastas, and regionally-inspired desserts.
Guests can now take pleasure in quite a lot of freshly-made picks in any respect eating venues — from just-out-of-the-oven baguettes to completely cooked spaghetti. To improve the freshly-made onboard choices, Chef Ethan Stowell has curated an Italian-inspired menu of pasta dishes, together with a made-to-order pizza with freshly-baked crust. In addition to handmade pasta and bread, Holland America Line additionally serves gelato made every day, waffle cones, regionally-inspired desserts, and extra pastries.
This summer season, Holland America can even introduce a signature bread: a sourdough raisin loaf with pumpkin seeds. It might be accessible fleetwide in Pinnacle Grill each night time and in the primary eating room on formal nights.
“When bread or pasta is made fresh, you can certainly taste the difference, which is why we take a close look at our culinary program to assess what we can make on board from scratch as another way to bring our Destination Dining culinary platform to life,” mentioned Michael Stendebach, vp of meals, beverage and rooms division for Holland America Line. “Chef Stowell’s new pasta and pizza are an exceptional addition to our ‘Made Fresh Daily’ menu items.”
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Guests seeking to take pleasure in Chef Stowell’s contemporary pasta on the buffet can select from tortiglioni with basil pesto, haricot vert and child potatoes; paccheri with spicy tomato, shrimp and parsley; spaghetti with beef and ricotta meatballs, basil, and tomato; casarecce with beef brief rib bolognaise; and basked conchiglie with mozzarella and tomato basil. At New York Pizza, Chef Stowell created the “Primo” with salami, pickled peppers and crimson onion, all atop a contemporary pizza crust.
New Pasta-Making Class at Sur La Table
Stemming from a collaboration introduced in November 2024, Holland America is teaming up once more with Sur La Table for cooking lessons provided at Sur La Table places nationwide. The recipes are impressed by the cruise line’s Destination Dining program and provides individuals the chance to arrange and create pasta constructed from scratch, guided by one in every of Sur La Table’s skilled cooks.
Starting this month, customers can join the “Made from Scratch Ravioli with Holland America Line” class to learn to make pasta dough, smoked salmon ravioli with vodka cream sauce, Swiss chard and ricotta ravioli with lemon brown butter, and — as a nod to the cruise line’s Dutch roots — stroopwafel apple crumble. The class options step-by-step directions on the ravioli making — from rolling and chopping dough to filling and cooking.
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“Our initial class on fresh fish with Sur La Table was fantastic, and we are excited to expand the partnership by having consumers prepare and cook a menu that is carefully crafted by both brands connecting to the more than 140 ports we call at across Europe,” mentioned Kacy Cole, chief advertising officer for Holland America Line. “Sur La Table and Holland America Line share a vision that cuisine is a door to different cultures, and this new class will introduce participants to more of our global flavors, while benefitting from Sur La Table’s culinary authority and expertise.”
Classes will be booked at surlatable.com/cooking-classes or at native Sur La Table shops.
What kinds of contemporary baked items and different meals would you prefer to see added to Holland America’s ships? Have you ever taken a cooking class — whether or not on land or at sea — and in that case, how was your expertise? Drop us an anchor under and tell us!
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