This is the great story behind a new delicious cookie made in The Netherlands … Sunday, November 14 the book What Would John Do? Flour Power, baking your way to happiness was presented in Amsterdam. The book describes how two advertisers (Hajo de Boer and Onno Lixenberg) changed their lives completely and went to bake [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Food'
Nibble, nibble like a mouse, who is nibbling at my house?
November 10th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Food, Uncategorized
This alternative garden shed is named EETHUIS and is designed by Marijke Bruinsma of De Stuurlui, an Atelier for town-planning and landscape in collaboration with Atelier Gras and commissioned by De Tuinen van Appeltern in The Netherlands. EETHUIS shows us the unlimited possibilities of the many varieties of edible greenery and new methods of tasty [...]
Tags:Vertical garden
More Autumn
October 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Art, Food, Uncategorized
The only bright color this time of the year comes from the Nasturtium in my herb garden. Do you know you can eat the flower and use the leaves in salads? A very unusual and peppery taste. And as you maybe can imagine; very decorative too. Many artists were inspired by this small orange flower… [...]
Tags:Jo Self·Joy Lily·Nasturtium·Oilpaintings·René Guerin·Shirley Saltzman
Autumn…
September 30th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Food
A accompanying recipe for this season… Pompoen- chicken stew 4 (free range) chicken legs – 1 medium orange pumpkin cut into wedges of 4x4cm (do not peel the pumpkin!) – 2 chopped up onions – 4 potatoes cut into wedges of 4x4cm – an eggplant cut into chunks – 1 can of chopped up tomatoes [...]
Eating with cows
February 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Food, Uncategorized
In a previous post I talked about the fascinating outdoor dinners that American Jim Denevan organized. The other day I came to the site of Sjef Meijerman and saw him doing something similar in the Netherlands. In his work Sjef deals with the origin of matters, he is strongly fascinated by the basic relation between [...]
Tags:cows·Dutch·ecological food
Endless meals
January 18th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Food, Uncategorized
I know, I know, it is still very much winter…. Well I say time for some summer pictures! This is about ‘Outstanding in the Field’ a group of people organizing adventurous diners to celebrate food at the source. Jim Denevan, a Californian artist I talked about before over here, founded the whole idea in 1999. [...]
Once upon a time…
October 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Food, Once upon a time...
Once upon a time we lived in a small town on the red soil of Georgia, U.S.A. That’s were I saw my first gourds and pumpkins. In the south with it’s sunny climate you had an incredible amount of pumpkins in all varieties and shapes. The orange pumpkin is the kind you see the most [...]
Harvest
September 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Art, Food, Uncategorized
How was your weekend? My Sunday was rather busy, in the morning I had a long walk with the dogs, I worked a bit in the garden and I harvested lots of bell peppers in my little greenhouse. When all the work was done we went to a nearby gallery to see the work of [...]
In the meantime…
August 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Food, In the Meantime..., Life, Uncategorized
In the meantime I harvest lots of tomatoes and hot and bell peppers from my greenhouse. For all of you who think what in heavens name are you going to do with all those red beauties, or for all of you who also have lots of tomatoes and hot and bell peppers, I give you [...]
Tags:bell peppers·greenhouse·hot peppers·La Tomatino·recipe·tomatoes
Hot Peppers Lovers…
August 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Food, Life
So good to see that some of you took RSS feeds… Hope you all had a nice weekend. I went to a party Saturday and even danced! So Sunday was kind of slow… Worked a bit in my little greenhouse and I have harvested my first hot peppers. Almost in time, because a few weeks [...]
Tags:greenhouse·hot peppers·recipe
