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Reflections: November 2012
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Welcome to my blog. Friday, 2 November 2012. Autumn 2012 Kimono de Jack NL at the Japanese Garden near The Hague. Sunday October 21st the Kimono de Jack NL. Aka KDJ Holland visited the Japanese garden at the Clingendael park. The Japanese garden is only open to the public twice a year for a few short weeks and with autumn colouring the leaves , what better occasion for our members to wear their beloved kimonos? As always , click on the pictures to see a larger version that opens in a separate window ).
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Reflections: February 2014
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Welcome to my blog. Sunday, 2 February 2014. Three ways to preserve your cloves : garlic tsukemono. At the end of summer till autumn ( July till October ) garlic is harvested. It's one of my favourite herbs since forever, but I always have to throw away bulbs because they've gone bad or started to sprout. That is , until I discovered tsukemono (literally : 'pickled things') : the japanese art of pickling vegetables and herbs. I'll be describing my three favourite recipes here. I always use an empty jar f...
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Reflections: April 2014
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Welcome to my blog. Tuesday, 15 April 2014. Flowers and kimonos : Keukenhof Spring 2014 ( part 1 of 3 ). Spring has finally arrived. Last weekend I went to a meeting with people from the Kimono de Jack NL at the Keukenhof Flower Show, near the small town of Lisse , located in the West of the Netherlands, not far from the coast. Mostly bulb flowers like tulips, hyacinths , daffodils ) and these are still the main attraction of the Show. Hyacinths come in many varieties and they all smell wonderful. This w...
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Reflections: December 2013
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Welcome to my blog. Monday, 23 December 2013. Chicken with forty cloves of garlic. I've come across this fascinating ( FORTY cloves! Recipe more than once in the past in many cookbooks , always wondering what it would taste like and this weekend I finally made it happen. A lot of versions of this traditional French recipe can be found on the internet, but I went for the most traditional one. I used a Mechelse koekoek , which is a famous special Belgian breed (since 1898! 4 spoons of olive oil. Mine needs...
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Reflections: Flowers and kimonos : Keukenhof Spring 2014 ( part 2 of 3 )
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Welcome to my blog. Tuesday, 15 April 2014. Flowers and kimonos : Keukenhof Spring 2014 ( part 2 of 3 ). This is part 2 of my visit to the Keukenhof Flower Show with people from the Kimono de Jack NL. This post is in three parts, Click Here to go to part 1. After all the group photos, we looked for locations to take some individual photos. In a garden this large, there's plenty of them. Jente , posing under a blossoming cherry tree, wearing a furisode and a purple hakama. Jente and her friend Maxime.
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Reflections: April 2012
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Welcome to my blog. Sunday, 22 April 2012. Spring 2012 : Tei-en Matsuri at the Japanese garden in Hasselt , Belgium. Hasselt in Belgium has a long standing relationship as a sister-city with Itami in Hyogo Prefecture , Japan. Twenty years ago this led to the building of a Japanese garden of 25000 m², at this time still the largest in Europe. The garden has been designed together with Japanese garden-architects and it shows. A path winds along the entire garden, crossing the stream at various points.
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Reflections: June 2012
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Welcome to my blog. Saturday, 2 June 2012. Spring 2012 Leiden Matsuri. In honor of the visit of the Japanese emperor to the Rapenburg in Leiden in 2000 the SieboldHuis Japanmuseum organizes a yearly market. This year was the fifth occasion , so they organized a matsuri (Japanmarkt (Nl.). What better occasion for the Kimono de Jack NL to get together again? The weather forecast promised very sunny and very warm weather : perfect for wearing yukata! One of the gates of the old city. Of course , we weren't ...
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Reflections: Flowers and kimonos : Keukenhof Spring 2014 ( part 1 of 3 )
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Welcome to my blog. Tuesday, 15 April 2014. Flowers and kimonos : Keukenhof Spring 2014 ( part 1 of 3 ). Spring has finally arrived. Last weekend I went to a meeting with people from the Kimono de Jack NL at the Keukenhof Flower Show, near the small town of Lisse , located in the West of the Netherlands, not far from the coast. Mostly bulb flowers like tulips, hyacinths , daffodils ) and these are still the main attraction of the Show. Hyacinths come in many varieties and they all smell wonderful. This w...
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Reflections: December 2012
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Welcome to my blog. Monday, 10 December 2012. Bigos : a famous old Polish hunter's stew . When the winter enters the land and the nights grow long and cold, this famous old Polish hunting dish will be perfect to keep you going! It's basically a hunter's stew of lots of white cabbage , sauerkraut, apples, some mushrooms, dried prunes , water , a little wine and plenty of pork or other leftovers of cooked meat. Every reheating will make it more tasteful! So my Polish cookbook says ). 1 kilo of white cabbage.
