What did you cook/eat today (October 2017)?

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Elawin said:
Tonight's dinner was a quick and easy stir fry of onion, carrots, mushrooms, garlic, red and orange peppers, chillies, and cime di rapa (stalks and leaves), with a touch of Chinese 5 spice mix and a splash of soy sauce, served up on a bed of plain steamed rice.

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Lovely - your photos are getting 'brighter'!
 
ElizabethB said:
Nothing fancy. Just trying to get the hang of taking food pictures and getting them posted properly.

Sunday evening

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Garden cucumbers, mustard greens and left over pork.

This evening

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Looks to me as if you are getting the hang of 'food styling'! My absolute number one top tip is to take photos in daylight - not direct sun and not electric light. I very often take food into the garden to photograph. A slightly overcast day is ideal!

I might start a new thread as we now have lots more members posting photos.
 
morning glory said:
...My absolute number one top tip is to take photos in daylight - not direct sun and not electric light. I very often take food into the garden to photograph. A slightly overcast day is ideal!...
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That's not going to happen with my pics. Currently, the sun sets right after 6:00PM, which is about the time I start prepping quick-cooking dinners. In order to get a photo during daylight, I'd have to make sure I have a properly plated arrangements of leftovers to shoot the next day! I love you guys like butter, but I'm not willing to get up early just to take daylight shots! :D
 
Lynne Guinne said:
That's not going to happen with my pics. Currently, the sun sets right after 6:00PM, which is about the time I start prepping quick-cooking dinners. In order to get a photo during daylight, I'd have to make sure I have a properly plated arrangements of leftovers to shoot the next day! I love you guys like butter, but I'm not willing to get up early just to take daylight shots! :D
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I understand. The sun sets at around that time here at the moment. I tend to cook earlier in the day and photograph then stuff gets re-heated. A lot of my food is like that and actually improves with keeping and re-heating. So I often photograph it in the pan. Otherwise, as you say, its leftovers which I photograph next day. That is, unless I cook something up for lunch or brunch!

Next up is Potato and Tomato Curry with Coconut. I cooked it earlier today and photographed it in daylight. It was eaten with rice and another veg curry (photo to follow), tonight. Nothing left now!

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Lynne Guinne said:
I'm not willing to get up early just to take daylight shots! :D
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I'm a very late riser. I get up around 10 am to 11 am in the morning and usually start cooking an hour or so later. I often cook all day. Its my hobby! But by 5 pm I stop. I like to have a drink and switch off. Aside from salads, almost everything I do can be reheated.
 
Lynne Guinne said:
That's not going to happen with my pics. Currently, the sun sets right after 6:00PM, which is about the time I start prepping quick-cooking dinners. In order to get a photo during daylight, I'd have to make sure I have a properly plated arrangements of leftovers to shoot the next day! I love you guys like butter, but I'm not willing to get up early just to take daylight shots! :D
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I have a slightly different problem... finding cloud cover! This is Australia after all...
 
Good Afternoon from hopefully soon to be raining NSW, Australia.

Thank you for the healing vibes peeps.

I don’t know how I did it but I made both soups & a loaf of bread of Monday.

Seafood Chowder on salmon stock with smoked cod, prawns, mussels & calamari

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Chicken & Sweet Corn soup


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And my first loaf from a brand new sour dough starter.


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The bread needs a lot of work but at least the starter is started.
 
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