Red quinoa, spinach and feta salad with caramelised onion, charred green chilli and parsnip crisps. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
Six Word Saturday: taste of winter on my plate
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Red quinoa, spinach and feta salad with caramelised onion, charred green chilli and parsnip crisps. Image: Su Leslie, 2017
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Your post is making me hungry.
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I’ll consider it a success then. 🙂 I love photographing food and am trying to figure out all the technical and styling stuff — without resorting to the fake food that professionals use.
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I once had a discussion with a food photographer and some of the tricks he used were positively poisonous. I like the idea of food photos without fake.
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Me too. I’d rather have imperfections in the image. Plus I like eating the food afterwards 🙂
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Ya, uy post is making me hungry, also.
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Looks yummy!
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Yum, yum, yum! I’m just ready for breakfast and now I’m even more ready!! Happy weekend, Su.
janet
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Thanks Janet. I cooked a biggish amount of quinoa, and turned the rest into little muffin / frittata type things, with eggs and cheese and black olives. We had those for breakfast yesterday and they were pretty good too.
Happy Weekend.
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Yum!
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Beautiful food photo Su! Do you prepare meals like this everyday… or are you at a restaurant?
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Thank you so much Joanne.
It’s a home-cooked lunch, though certainly a bit more “styled” than my normal meals. The weather here is miserable so instead of shopping for food, I’m trying to create interesting dishes out of what’s already in the fridge and pantry.
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I am very impressed, with your culinary and photography skills AND your energy to do anything at all in hot weather. 🙂
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It’s winter here, and that definitely helps. It’s been quite a mild winter so far — and Auckland doesn’t ever get really cold, but I do prefer raw food in summer! 🙂
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Looks very tasty – I’m feeling peckish now too!
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Thanks Susan. 🙂
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Su, that does look good.
Leslie
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Thanks Leslie. The weather has been pretty horrible here — to miserable to go out and shop, so I’m concocting meals out of whatever is in the pantry and fridge. 🙂
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Good food can get you through this nasty weather.
Leslie
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Gosh, that looks incredible! I doubt I’d restrict it to just winter eating though. Just saying. 🙂
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Thank you so much. I think of parsnip as winter food. We do get them here in summer, but they’re pretty expensive and probably imported.
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Right on that, but I’d probably substitute out the parsnips anyway with more carmelized onions! LOL
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That would work. I’d definitely add more chillis next time too.
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Ah…the magic word and a fabulous way to spice up anything!
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Totally! I’ve been growing a couple of varieties of chilli in my garden for a few years and so use them a lot more in cooking.
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It may be a winter taste, but all that freshness gives it a summery look!
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We’re pretty lucky to have good fresh produce all year round.
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Looks delicious.
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Thanks Sally. Tasted pretty good; but then anything with caramelised onions tastes good to me.
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Looks great! Photographing food is a real challenge – and you did very well, Su! 😄 (and now I’m hungry! Going to sneak to the freezer and get myself an icecream 😉) xxxxxx
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Thanks Sarah. The boy-child was telling me about all the different things the photographers do in the studio to make food look good, a lot of which is faking stuff so it’s not actually edible. I couldn’t do that!!!!!
🙂 xxxxxxxx
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I´ve once heard they use dish soap for the bubbles on black coffee!!! Yikes!
I´m glad you´re not faking it but photograph the real stuff!!! 🙂 xxxxxxxx
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🙂 yeah I’ve heard of some pretty horrible faking. I couldn’t bring myself to spoil real food by adding fake stuff. I was brought up not to waste food, and besides, I enjoy eating it way too much 🙂
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It´s the same for me 😀
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Feel free to come over to my house and make salad anytime. 😉
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Gladly!
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