Huis Ten Bosch Food

I`m not even going to try to name all the dishes. I doubt i could if i wanted to anyway. There were a lot more courses to each of the two meals (and i took pictures of them all!) but it would take far too long to post all of them. So here is select few. The first few pictures are from the family dinner we had the night before the wedding and the others are from the reception lunch. In every dish the presentation was exquisite and, though in tiny portions, each dish was a tiny bite of bliss.

Dinner (Japanese)

Note the selection of tiny dishes. One is shaped like a persimmon, a symbol of autumn in Japan.


That is not a chestnut, that is a cookie make to look like a chestnut. Mind boggling.


Sashimi (raw fish). I doubt you can tell in this picture but there are little slices of carrot shaped like gingko leaves and maple leaves. These are other signs of autumn here.


Now this dish was one of my favorites. The dish itself is a little hutr and inside is a piece of cooked persimmon on top of about two bites of the most perfectly tender roasted pork, all with a persimmon-miso paste sauce (the chef`s own recipe). Fantastic!


a selection of autumn tastes.


dessert, the components of which i cannot recall.


The post meal beer in a funny glass. German beer, very tasty. The glass is nice to look at but goofy to drink from. I drank lots of European beers while in the Dutch theme park. When in Rome...


Reception Lunch (French)

To the untrained eye this may look like a cappuccino, but no! It is actually a cup of incredibly delicious mushroom soup made from mushrooms that are so expensive it`s just funny.


And this is "hibiscus ice." When i inquired as to what it was actually made from, i was informed "hibiscus." yup. the flower. And it was perfect as a light pallet cleanser between the soup and the main courses.


You`ll note that the steak is shaped like a heart.
It was a wedding, after all. =)


Lovely little dessert...


...filled with fresh raspberry sauce!