Lunch bowl. Prawn and soba noodle salad with yuzu, avocado and mint. Image: Su Leslie, 2018
Last week I posted a shot of some ingredients I was planning to use for a lunch recipe.
I was looking for ways to use some of our citrus, especially the yuzu, and an online search gave me this recipe from a site called Great British Chefs.
I omitted the tablespoon of brown sugar in the dressing, and the cucumber because they aren’t in season and at $5 each, didn’t seem essential. I also forgot to sprinkle sesame seeds on top, but apart from losing that little bit of crunch, I don’t think it really mattered.
This is the result. I have to say, it was really easy to make and really yummy.
Prawn and soba noodle salad with avocado, grapefruit mint and yuzu. Image: Su Leslie 2018
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The ingredients: prawn and soba noodle salad with avocado, grapefruit mint and yuzu. Image: Su Leslie 2018
I had planned to add grapefruit segments, but chickened out and put a few in a bowl on the side to “taste test.” I like the avocado-grapefruit combination and it was ok with the prawns, but overall, I think it would be better as a separate recipe.
Regular Random is a photo challenge hosted by Desley Jane at Musings of a Frequently Flying Scientist. Please pop over and take a look; and if you’d like to join in:
choose a subject or a scene
spend five minutes photographing it – no more!
try to not interfere with the subject, instead see it from many angles, look through something at it, change the light that’s hitting it
have fun!
tag your post #regularrandom and ping back to Desley’s post
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all reality.” — Pablo Picasso
Picasso also said “we all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth”, while the American art philosopher, Arthur C. Danto described art as “embodied meaning” — apparently to distinguish Andy Warhol’s Brillo Boxes from actual Brillo boxes.
So is my image art? It contains a stripped-away (and colour-inverted) image of art — a cast-glass sculpture by Gregor Kregar (Creature exhibition, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui.)
Is it whimsy? A comment on homelessness? Or is it nothing more than a collection of pixels to which you each will respond in your own way? Please let me know.
Debbie at Travel with Intent started me on this train of thought with this week’s quote-inspired challenge. If you haven’t already, pop over to see her wonderfully abstract images.
Morning. The Tor, Waiake Beach, Auckland, NZ. Su Leslie, 2018
July is proving to be a very inward-looking month. From my photos, it would seem that pretty much all I’ve done is sew, eat and walk on beaches and in gardens.
The sewing started in June, with the “Art Matters” tote I made (supposedly just to hold paints and brushes). It got such a positive reaction from people I seriously considered the economics of making some commercially (not viable). But since I had a stash of fabric and image-transfer paper, I made a few more for friends, and then thought I could do more for going plastic-free if I had a bunch of other totes. The library bag followed, and then some simple calico bags that scrunch up small enough to carry around, and after that a holdall for all the stuff (notebook, pens, glasses, iPad, phone, etc) I carry from office to living room so I can work in either. My journal is filling up with more ideas and designs and I think I am officially obsessed.
Image: Su Leslie
Art Matters. Riffing on the theme. Su Leslie 2018
… something to carry my library books back and forth in. Su Leslie, 2018
iPad sleeve. Su Leslie 2018
Portable work-place. Su Leslie 2018
Weekend craft project; my new tote bag. Su Leslie 2018
Fruits of my labour. Image: Su Leslie
Ornamental kale, Domain Wintergardens, Auckland. Su Leslie 2018
Late afternoon, Lucas Creek from Greenhithe Wharf. Su Leslie, 2018
Morning walk, Waiake beach, Auckland. Su Leslie 2018
Coveting my neighbour’s camelia hedge. Su Leslie 2018
Domain Wintergardens, Auckland. Su Leslie, 2018
Domain Wintergardens, Auckland. Su Leslie, 2018
Domain Wintergardens, Auckland. Su Leslie, 2018
After the storm, Pt Chevalier Beach, Auckland. Su Leslie 2018
After the storm, Pt Chevalier Beach, Auckland. Su Leslie 2018
The Tor, Waiake Beach, Auckland. Su Leslie 2018
Domain Wintergardens, Auckland. Su Leslie, 2018
I’ve already shared so many food photos this month, I’ll leave you with this shot and the question: what did I make with these ingredients?
“mystery box challenge” (ok, I’m watching MasterChef Australia on TV). Su Leslie 2018
About The Changing Seasons
The Changing Seasons is a monthly challenge where bloggers around the world share what’s been happening in their month.
If you would like to join in, here are the guidelines:
The Changing Seasons Version One (photographic):
Each month, post 5-20 photos in a gallery that you feel represent your month
Don’t use photos from your archive. Only new shots.
Tag your posts with #MonthlyPhotoChallenge and #TheChangingSeasons so that others can find them
The Changing Seasons Version Two (you choose the format):
Each month, post a photo, recipe, painting, drawing, video, whatever that you feel says something about your month
Don’t use archive stuff. Only new material!
Tag your posts with #MonthlyPhotoChallenge and #TheChangingSeasons so others can find them.
If you do a ping-back to this post, I can update it with links to all of yours.
UPDATE
Be sure to check out how these other bloggers have experienced July
Lunch; grapefruit, rocket, walnuts and feta salad, dressed with an orange mustard vinaigrette. Image: Su Leslie, 2018
The garden is a bit empty at this time of year. The citrus has almost all been picked and the vege patch is yielding mainly herbs. I did find some rocket though, and cobbled together a lunchtime salad — grapefruit, rocket, a few toasted walnuts and some crumbled feta. The vinaigrette was leftover from another dish, and contains juice from a couple of our not-very-sweet oranges.
Regular Random is a photo challenge hosted by Desley Jane at Musings of a Frequently Flying Scientist — who takes the most beautiful, swoon-inducing images (of food and flowers especially). Please pop over and take a look, and if you’d like to join in:
choose a subject or a scene
spend five minutes photographing it – no more!
try to not interfere with the subject, instead see it from many angles, look through something at it, change the light that’s hitting it
have fun!
tag your post #regularrandom and ping back to Desley’s post
Picking up the Taki; an indication that the visitor to this marae comes with peaceful intentions. Image; Su Leslie, 2017
Visiting a marae (Maori meeting ground) begins with a highly symbolic welcome ceremony. As part of that, a young man of the iwi (tribal group) to which the marae belongs will issue a challenge (wero) to the visiting party.
The challenge involves a symbolic demonstration of the iwi’s fighting prowess in the form of the young man and his weapon. It is asking the visitors “do you come here with peaceful intentions?”
A representative of the visiting group (usually a man) accepts the challenge by picking up the taki — a symbolic object which in many cases is a branch (think olive branch in terms of symbolism).
After that the group is welcomed onto the marae.
Visitors, in this case a bride and groom, being welcomed onto the Te Tii Waitangi Marae at Waitangi, Northland, NZ. Su Leslie 2017
You can find out more about this powhiri (welcome process) here.
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