Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Monday, 20 August 2012
my stand with weed recipes at museum Oud Overschie
museum Oud Overschie has beautiful gardens where we had a little market for de groene loper event. It was a wonderful hot day and I prepared some weed pesto's, with comfrey and elder, and made rocket pancakes for people to taste. For drinks we had elderblossom sirup and rosehip sirup. I also prepared some thymesirup, very nice stuff for a sore throat.
The recipes could be taken home to try it for yourself. It's nice to be able to use the weeds that grow in your garden.
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Monday, 13 August 2012
Saturday, 11 August 2012
building camera obscura installation Blauwe huisje @ festival Duizel in het park
het blauwe huisje is een camera obscura installatie in een huisje dat ondersteboven op zijn puntdak staat.
the blue house is a camera obscura installation in a house that is upside down.
Monday, 23 July 2012
2 weeks of Perigord Vert France
We spent 2 weeks in France, cooking for the guests of Ouroubouros, creative holidays.
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| making the most natural lavender soap, with only dried and handcrushed lavender from the gardens of http://www.createrre.nl/ |
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| salad with nasturium flowers and leaves |
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| when life gives you lemons make limoncello |
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| couscous |
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| beautiful view of our little house... |
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| sunset |
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| well-presented goods in a small vintage shop in Brantome |
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| ... |
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| well-cooked cat |
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| Bouillabaise |
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| lentil dish |
Sunday, 1 July 2012
Friday, 15 June 2012
Thursday, 14 June 2012
elderflower sirup 2012
Finally picked flowers and made elderflower sirup tonight, after a search through town for corks to close these beer bottles with. These are made for champagne bottles and are the only ones I could find that actually fitted.
I normally use empty wine bottles but just before I started making sirup roommate Huub took every bottle in the house to the recycling bin. These beer bottles are a much better fit for sirup without preservatives anyway, and they look pretty without labels and with their white caps...
Now there's still a pan waiting to be turned into elderflower champagne.
recipe? http://dingsboems.blogspot.nl/2012/03/elderflower-sirup.html
http://dingsboems.blogspot.nl/2012/03/elderflower-champagne.html
Sunday, 3 June 2012
Stevia
We've been using liquid stevia instead of sugar for some time now, and when I had the chance to plant stevia in my garden I didn't hesitate. Now the next thing was to learn to make the extract. Found and will test this recipe as soon as our plant is ready to harvest.
Place your crushed (dried) stevia leaves in a glass jar, then pour vodka over them to coat. We are using vodka instead of water to extract the glycosides because we’ll get a much sweeter end result this way. Opt for vodka over other liquors because it’s flavorless and cheap.
Put the lid on your jar, shake it up, and let it sit on your counter for 24-36 hours. Don’t let it sit for longer than 36 hours, as it will turn more bitter. I used to make a liquid stevia extract the same way that I made other herbal tinctures, letting it sit for weeks. While this may improve the medicinal quality of the extract, it sacrificed a lot of sweetness to do it.
Next, filter out the leaves.
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