Manhattan Vichyssoise

Holland, as you all know, is famous for its sea-walls, or ‘dikes’. As land is reclaimed from the sea, massive earthwork walls are set up to keep out the water.

Well, I know a Dutch recipe which celebrates the construction of these walls in a unique way. In this dish, which is called Fish Fillets Noord Zee, creamed potatoes are used to represent the dikes, while the sea is represented by fish in sort-of lakes, made by the potato walls.

I think the important thing here is that