So I did, left work about 1 pm went shopping for ingredients to make meatloaf and tootled home.
I diced an onion, diced half a Bell pepper, diced a couple ribs of celery, sliced a couple small carrots. Mixed in couple pounds ground beef, one egg, half cup bread crumbs, salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, cinnamon, cumin, garlic, tomato sauce. Mix well.
Pat into loaves and put on top of sliced oiled quartered potatoes.
Bake 90 minutes at 350 degrees. Tasty! Next time if I use the holy trinity of veggies I believe I will saute everything until soft before mixing with the meat.
I also should just start down load pictures of food porn rather than rely on my digital camera which is quite often out of focus and brown is the predominant color of the food. Oh well....
I'm having meat loaf, slice of potato and a pear for lunch tomorrow, what are you having?
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I had a bacon cheese burger at the place on the hill....mmmm bacon.
I thought that was a peep, then on the second look I saw it was a pear.
We went out for lunch/dinner before the Seahawks game. I had a steak and Mitch had surf and turf. It was fun.
Hey, sounds well and sure was tasty. Today I prepared a vegetable soup from what I could find. Garlic, Japanese souce and rice noodles bettered it. And a blob of yogurth: first the noodles, than the yogurth and than the soup over it.
Photographing food is difficult really. Professionals in analog times often used machine oil for sauce, and pepped up anything with food colours or other things - at least it surely was not real food we saw. Today it is made via photoshop or other programs, colours and surfaces get "enhanced". The other important thing is the light, it changes colours. Digital cameras have a kind of option where you can choose between natural light, artificial light and neon. (I always use the automatic, but set this option if need be.)
I do not photograph food, but have to click from old books or such things, very often brown in brown - for the decaying paper and the ink - I found natural light giving the best results. For details and readability that is.
If I had to or would want to photograph food I would go close to the object, that the plate fills the pic, use any built in enhancement thingy I could find (more sharp, more colour, more contrast, flash on, flash off) and think too myself: Eat it - I did, so can you! :)
Thanks for the tip and to be honest I did try an internet search for beautiful food but did not find anything to my liking. R
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