Category Archives: Art Work

Apples = Still Life – Memories of Friday Market in Leeuwarden

Posted on 04/14/2021 by kunstkitchen

Fridays on the market square called Wilhelminaplein in Leeuwarden is the large food market of Friesland in the Netherlands. Continue reading →

Posted in Art and Architecture, Art Work, Farmer's Markets, Slow food and art in the kitchen | Tagged apples, April in Minnesota, Euopean market, Friday Market, Friesland Netherlands, Leeuwarden Market, Minneapolis outdoor market, Oil painting, outdoor markets, Still life painting, Wilhelminaplein in Leeuwarden | 3 Comments

Shetland Sheepdog Portrait = Piper’s Portrait in Pastel

Posted on 03/21/2021 by kunstkitchen

This piece of artwork of Piper, a Shetland Sheepdog was a commemorative portrait. The photo I had to work from was very distorted with pixelated smears. It took much longer than expected to intuit the missing details. I looked at … Continue reading →

Posted in animals, Art and Architecture, Art Work, Dog Portraits, environment, poetry | Tagged Canada, companion dog, dog portrait, pastel drawing, pastel pencil, Rembrandt pastels, Shetland Sheepdog, Ted Dyck | 6 Comments

From Rommegrott, Lutefisk, Lefse Recipes to Ryōkan the Hermit = Mind Traveling

Posted on 01/16/2021 by kunstkitchen

I found this recipe in one of the church cookbooks that I collected long ago and far away. As a laugh, I sent this to my friend Alan, who has some Norwegian ancestry and called me to rave about how his mother made Rommergrott and how they loved it.
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Posted in Art Work, environment, Food Humor, health, photography, poetry | Tagged "Zen Buddhism", food, hermit, Ingebretsens, japanese poetry, lefse, lutefisk, meditation, mind travelling, rommegrott, Ryōkan, Scandinavian products, Shohaku Okamura, zen quotes, Zen teaching | 16 Comments

Thoughts At the Close of the Year 2020 = “One Brings Sorrow and the Other Brings Joy” – A Winter View

Posted on 12/23/2020 by kunstkitchen

On Monday I drove by Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis. There were skaters dotted across the smooth ice. The wind was 35 miles per hour. Continue reading →

Posted in animals, Art Work, Dog Portraits, environment, photography | Tagged cocker spaniel portrait, ice skaters, joy, Lake of the Isles, Minnesota Winter, photography, pond hockey, pond skating, sorrow, windy day photos, year end | 4 Comments

Robert Frost – American Poet = “Miles to go…”

Posted on 12/14/2020 by kunstkitchen

Reunion is my poem about a trip to visit a friend and Robert Frost’s grave in Old Bennington Vermont. I grew up in New England and we read Robert Frost’s work in school. Remember Continue reading →