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KATINA'S RECIPES

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But first here is our off-spring

		Salvador	Phoenix Amalia	Laszlo Peet	Xanadu	30 Sept. 2010	22 July 2013	11 May 2016	14 Feb.2017
191 Recipes so far											Recipes sorted by main Ingredients (mostly)
Jacob and Jennette’s family											Jim and Jetske’s family

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Nibbles	Entrees, Marinades & Sauces	Soups	Main Courses	Salads&Vegetables	Cakes, Biscuits&Desserts	Breads&Pastries

Note: If you want to print out a recipe it is best to copy it and then past it in Word or Notepad or whatever and then print it.

LAST ADDED RECIPES (Now a long time ago) Türlü | Baked Summer Vegetables Turkish Potato Salad Tagine of squid and new potatoes Nonna's Eggwhite Cake Zucchini and Fetta Omelette Zucchini Slice Apple and Almond Cake Damp Almond Cake

PHOTO ALBUMS & LIFE STORIES You will need to scroll backwards and forwards or up and down. Some old Plooij-Gunning Family photographs (Opa and Oma Plooij and family) Some old Groot-Daudeij Family photographs (Opa and Oma Groot and family) Some old Plooij-Groot Family photographs (Jaap and Mimi and family) More Plooij-Gunning Photograhs Oma Plooij-Gunning and Oma Groot-Daudey Life story Jaap by Trix (use Google translate if necessary) Life story Mimi, title page by Trix (as above) Very old silent family movie (Jaap and Mimi wedding movie and more) Photographs featuring Katina (presented at her 70^th birthday)	some links Lazaredes-Paltoglou Family Web Site - MyHeritage	PHOTO ALBUMS (PowerPoint slide shows) 2007 Sth Australian West Coast Campervan Trip (1) Cactus Beach and Point Sinclair (2) Ceduna (3) Colton (4) Fowlers Bay, Scott’s Beach (5) Murphy’s Haystacks (6) Port Germain (7) Streaky Bay (8) Venus Bay (9) Wudinna, Penong, Haslam, Elliston 2003 Campervan trip Brisbane-Adelaide (1) Possum Park to Roma to Cheepie Birdsville (2) Birdsville to Mungerannie (3) Mungerannie to Marree toParachilna 2009 Campervan trip Adelaide-Darwin-Kakadu (1) Coober Pedy-Barrow Creek the Xmas star is back!!! Learn how to make a traditional Christmas star, as taught to me by my mother! It ain't that easy, but well worth the effort. Oma Plooij-Gunning plays the piano (mp3)-see photo taken on location. (By opening two browser windows you can see the pic while hearing the music!)
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MOVIES OF TRIPS TO EUROPE 1995 With Wietske in Harlingen (first little bit in Goenga: to download it to your computer may take some time if you have a slow internet connection, as I have. However I discovered you can stream it using the “open the network stream” option in the VLC media player’s “Media” menu. Copy the link and paste it in there. You may have to download the VLC player if you don’t already have it. This applies to all video clips). Europe trips 1974(with Jacob) and 1980(with Jacob and Jimmy) These are digitised super8-film clips projected on a screen and made into a dvd, so poor quality, but still nice to see... Menus for clips below: Clip1 1974 holland trip Clip2 1974 continued Oma Plooij-Gunning Clip3 1980 starts at about 43.00 into this clip Clip4 1980 cont. Clip5 1980 end of clip (very short) July 1999 Ooms en tantes at the reception after my mother Mimi’s funeral. Europe trip 2015, Holland France April-June 2011 Europe trip Holland Greece Amsterdam and Pireaus Aegina To Sifnos At Sifnos Europe Trip 2013 With Peet at Le Moulin Bouquet, La Chapelle aux Chasses Winter in Holland 1998-1999 (New 12/10/24) Clip1 00:00 The whole family 19/12/1998 01:07 Tulpenkade 02:32 Tante Els more Mijdrecht and Amsterdam Clip2 00:00 A’dam cont. Noorder Markt 1:59:53 With Harm,Yvonne, Emma and Sanne 2:58:48 Lekker eten met de hele familie in Mijdrecht, Jaap speech Clip3 00:00 Jaap speech cont. Jacob plays violin 8:13:52 Goënga Clip4 00:00Goënga cont. New Years Eve, Graf Jan Groot, Wandeling 3:24:56 Haarlem with Jaap and Mimi 4:00:00 A’dam 4:20:00 Leiden with Trix and Ben 8 :14 :36 Sneeuw in Mijdrecht. Clip5 00:end Winter scenes in Mijdrecht.	VIDEOS IN AUSTRALIA These are DVDs uploaded to this (my) website. Unfortunately, the menus on DVDs don’t work for some reason, but they are all represented on the 4 or 5 clips (video files) on them. By clicking on the ‘Menus’ for clips you can get some idea what is on the DVD. Jimmy 1975-1980 Menus Clip 1 Clip2 Clip3 Clip4 Clip5 New!(20/09/24) 1977 Mimi in Australia Menu Clip1 Clip2 Clip3 (ends at 3.50) 1984 Jaap and Mimi in Australia Menu1 Menu2 Clip3 (starts at 3.50) Clip4 Clip5 New!(27/09/2024) 1977, Jacob’s 4^th birthday party at 12 James Rd Belair 2007 Sheoak rd, Nth Queensland, Kangaroo Island This one is from a dvd I made from super8 films in 2007, so again poor quality. The sound track was taken from digitised reel to reel tape recordings. Menus for the 2007 clips Clip1 plays menus 1- 00:00:02 Jane Peters and Jacob 00:00:05 Sheoak Rd scenes, 2- 00:00:56 Belair Primary soccer match 3- 00:02:11 Pat Wilson and Ken Whisson 00:02:30 to end of clip…a bonus Clip2 plays menus 3- 00:00:00 bonus continued 4- 00:25:09 Kyogle 02:34:05 Magnetic Island 05:44:03 Mission Beach 07:44:45 Charters Towers 08:24:00 Gold Coast 5- 08:40:43 Upper Eden Creek Clip3 plays menus 5- 00:00:00 Upper Eden Creek cont. 00:00:06 Townsville with Jim Lazaredes family 00:00:17 Mount Fox with Alan and Judy Pomeroy 00:01:07 Magnetic Island with Beckers 6- 00:01:49 Coorong with the Beckers 00:02:36 Moonta Bay with the Stevesons 00:02:57 Goolwa sailing with the heron Clip4 plays menu 6- 00:00:00 Moonta Bay cont. 7- 00:00:36 Kangaroo Island with Trix and Ben 1996 Menus for Anna Maria & Peet in Australia (1) clips 1,2,3,4,5 1996-7 Menus for Anna Maria & Peet in Australia (2) clips 6,7,8,9 (By the time I was digitising these video8 movies my camera/player was dying, hence the occasional and annoying distortion) Clip 1 Clip 6 Clip 2 Clip 7 Clip 3 Clip 8 Clip 4 Clip 9 Clip 5 1995-6 Trix and Ben in Australia 1 Trix and Ben in Australia 2	Family CALENDER PHOTOS (PowerPoint slide shows) 2024 (added Dec.’24) 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 KANGAROO ISLAND PHOTOS With Chris and Lester Oct. 2003

 Coorong Beach Autumn 2002, taken by Dima

DAN'S STUFF	Go back to Katina’s Recipes
Greek Rembetika Portuguese Fado Music Latin American (Added April 2025)	An acquired taste, but once acquired very addictive. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=vamvakaris+markos Some time ago I discovered Portuguese fado music. Here is my transcription of and link to Mariza's version of "O Gente de Minha Terra" (midi file); MP3 file with me attempting to play 4 overlayed tracks! Valsa de Euridice as sung by Mariana de Moraes. Here is a PowerPoint presentation of my transcript for guitar with lyrics in French and Portuguese. Valsa de Euridice (an instrumental version slowly cobbled together by me). Here is the transcript.
Books	Henry Miller wrote a book: "The Books in my Life". This seems to have turned out to be too ambitious a project for me, easier said than done.... However, since about 2013 I've become a fan of the great contemporary Australian writer Alexis Wright. (see page 108 “CONNECTIONS” in Notes to Knillis). Also I have translated some of the European-Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom's work and had that printed on-line for friends. Below are 3 links to the results of the work that I have done in cooperation with the late Syd Harrex of the English Department at The Flinders University of South Australia. That was interesting and great fun, helped by the odd glass of red wine or two. Riddles of light (Het Raadsel van het Licht). An art book with lots of beautiful illustrations in colour. http://au.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/5546855/4b8bd55b3dec56ce5a98388d93cbee8438092bd1 Letters to Poseidon (Brieven aan Poseidon). Observations and musings by Nooteboom. http://au.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/5469505/5ac21a794d277382c5aaa6b2031361cfe6e5dd61 Here is the free pdf file of Letters to Poseidon! Notes to Knillis. My somewhat tongue-in-cheek response to Cees as Dimitri Poseidon. (a) http://au.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/5495897/43d0a561b2bb9a3f3900a2b2bd7dae8d770950fa (b) http://au.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/5876759/96d7863b74f01356c5e41f2efa5455e3a2f593fd (c) Notes to Knillis (a) Is more expensive version with colour photographs; (b) is a cheaper black and white version; (c) is the whole book for free in pdf format. And here are some of my more recent THOUGHTS. Depending on inspiration they will be added to. Recently (Feb 2024) I have made a BLURB book of these thoughts. Here is the PDF of this book. More recently further bits and pieces may begin to appear here: Losse Flodders; Education or Indoctrination: (Feb. 2025) It has also been fun lately to revisit the remnants of my Latin education with a friend who at one stage in his life used to teach that language and who expressed a similar interest in digging up some of his slumbering knowledge. We found some anonymous poetry by or reminiscent of Catullus and thus a bit too saucy, perhaps, for adolescent high school kids. Cras amet qui numquam amavit quique amavit cras amet
Dreamland Cafe Jazz Orchestra (DCJO) CD1: High Society CD2: Dreaming the Hours Away That Sweet Something Dear (Spikes Seven Pods of Pepper) Midi files of the above	This band operated in Adelaide (South Australia) from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties. Its leader, arranger, musical director and pianist was John Silha. The band was very seldom heard in public, but rehearsals were frequent and good fun. The DCJO was styled on the music of early King Oliver and Turk Murphy. Fortunately we recorded almost all of the tunes we played at the rehearsals, and I have put these on a couple of CDs. Please contact me if you would like a copy. Recording and musical quality is variable, but every take contains something of interest for people who know the Classic Jazz genre. I have also made printable copies of most of John's excellent arrangements and the "solos" on the CDs, as well as midi files. These files include an arrangement of "That Sweet Something Dear", a tune King Oliver recorded, but which has never been found. I attempted to arrange this tune some years ago now using the Musiktime Deluxe notation software. This is the midi file, converted for Apple/Mac users to " MP3". You can now get an app in the apple store that will open midi-files and play them (the slide-whistle does not work, pity. I thought I did a pretty good job! It would be great if someone could use it as a basis for something that sounds more realistic! You'll need music notation software like ‘Sibelius’ that converts midi into sheet music to print out the scores, otherwise just send me an email. On the left is a link to our 2 CDs. The original version(s) on which the tunes were based are now fairly easily available on you-tube, in case you feel inclined to compare! Of course we don't come anywhere near them, but it was fun trying... I used the Kid Ory version of “That Sweet Something Dear”. These days you can find most of these things by fishing the internet (YouTube et.al.). Good Luck!
Building Classical Guitars, a Portuguese Guitar, a Baglama, Tsouras and Bouzouki (and trying to play them).	I have so far built three new guitars and restored an old lute and a cheapish clapped-out instrument I found in a tropical coffee shop at the Malanda Falls on a trip to the deep North. Very satisfying! Lately I have built a Portuguese Guitar and fixed an Arab Lute! Playing them well is much harder.....But I managed to cut and paste the following tunes: new!(22/09/24)
Culture Training Manual for Medical Workers in Aboriginal Communities	The basis for my master's thesis which I found on the web when, in my very early surfing days, when I was looking for references to my grand-father!
Bio-Psycho-Social Model for the Development of (Mental) Health and Illness	For those who are still not convinced that the answer is 42... In a former life I used to be a psychologist (mostly Clinical). A lot of things didn't add up and at some stage (I must have been particularly pissed off - sorry, disillusioned - which became increasingly easy) I decided to find some sense in it all. I still think I was on to something though! Whatever happened to those diagnosed as "Worried Well"?
A Christmas Star	These are the instructions. I re-learned how to make this star from my late mum in Dec.1997. A bit of a challenge, but very worthwhile having a go at.

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