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Fruit salad

30/12/2016

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After several days with Christmas dinners and leftovers, all I long for is something light and fresh. Like fruit salad. Super simple, and everyone likes it. Just take whatever fresh and dried fruit you have left in your fruit basket. Serve as it is or with some vanilla ice cream.
Fruit salad, makes 6-8 servings
2 oranges
2 persimmons
2 apples
2 bananas
Lemon juice (from half a lemon or a bottle)
Half a box of physalis
Dried cranberries and/or finely chopped figs and/or dades
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Dried pumpkin seeds and/or sunflower seeds
  1. Peel off the oranges with a sharp knife and remove all skin. Cut out the segments, and divide in two or three pieces. Squeeze out the juice from the leftover parts.  
  2. Wash off the persimmons and cut in pieces.
  3. Peel the apples and bananas and cut in pieces.
  4. Mix all fresh fruit pieces in a bowl and pour over juice.
  5. Wash the physalis and cut in halves. Add to the fruit mix.
  6. Sprinkle over some dried fruit and seeds.
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The Day Before The Day

23/12/2016

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“It’s the most wonderful time of the year” is by far the best Christmas song ever. It totally nails December.
 
Some things I love with December are:
  • the Christmas music; both carols and more contemporary, all day long, from the first of Advent until New Year’s Eve
  • the smell; a mix of hyacinths, gingerbread, fir-tree, hot chocolate, warmth and happiness
  • the colours; dark red, rich green, creamy brown, rustic grey…
  • the contrast of dark and light; the sun sets at three p.m. and everyone turns on their white, bright, yellowish Christmas lights. If we’re lucky there’s snow and that’s so beautiful it sweeps my feet away every time
I also love to curl up in my old couch in layers of hand knitted clothes with a good book and some hot tea. A gingersnap to that and I’m in heaven. Friends and family are of course an important ingredient to a happy festive season. The house gets warmer, the food tastes a little better in company, the sound level raises a little, and a certain level of chaos appear, which I appreciate. Playing board games, reading silly Christmas gift rhymes, solving cross words…
 
I wish you all the best of holidays!
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Christmas Tree of 2016
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Portrait of the week

22/12/2016

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This adorable portrait of nine year old Rachel is painted by British animal painter Edwin Henry Landseer (yes, the one giving rise to the name of the dog). He was a close friend to the family, and I think that’s why the portrait is so very personal and intimate. I get the feeling that she without permission sneaked out to the hay barn to indulge in her book in peace and quiet, and Landseer sketched her without her noticing. I love how the focus is on her pretty childish face and the amazing hairdo, while the rest is rather blurry.
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Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873); Rachel Russell, 1835
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Final Exam

13/12/2016

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For the final exam of my art history class, we are (among other things) to pick two portraits of our own choice and analyse them. It has taken me quite some time to choose, browsing through women artists at Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. Choosing portraits by female artists is a statement from my side, women artists have been overlooked for such a long time.

I finally decided on two self-portraits, by Angelica Kauffman and Rolinda Sharples, simply because I find them very pretty and appealing. These two women were born in the same century, but still, there’s an ocean of time between them. Ms Kauffman was born in Switzerland in 1741, and was taught the craft by her father. She early showed signs of great talent, and for a large part of her life stayed in Italy and Great Britain earning her way as a portrait and history painter. In 1768 she was one of only two female painters among the founding members of the Royal Academy of Arts, so she was very well famous during her days. I’ve read somewhere that she was very charming; add prettiness and talent and success is a fact. Angelica Kauffman lived a long and productive life, and died at the age of 66 in Rome.


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Self-portrait, Angelica Kauffman, 1770's.
Ms Sharples was born almost 50 years later, in 1793. Both of her parents were artists, and all children showed talent. The family moved back and forth to the Americas but permanently moved back to Great Britain in 1811, after the death of her father. Together with her mother Ms Sharples resided in Bristol, where she painted portraits and every day scenes of Regency social life. It was primarily her mother who was in charge of her education, and the two of them remained very close for her entire life. Rolinda Sharples died at age 45 of breast cancer. In 1827 she became an honorary member of the Society of British Artists, but her fame was nothing in the magnitude near Ms Kauffman's.
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Self-portrait of Rolinda Sharples with her mother Ellen Sharples, 1816
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