First Tomatoes!

Second in my Food Under Flash series is the first crop of tomatoes we harvested this summer. Since August 12, we have picked some 10 lb. of tomatoes, and at least another 15-20 lbs. await ripening and picking (both are

I Do Give a Fig

Let’s give this the alternate caption “Food Under Flash”, shall we? Our first fig of the season, photographed from a top-down position on a white plate. I added the black background in the post-processing stage. 

A Cornucopia of Pumpkins

This gallery contains 5 photos. This is a rather appropriate post, considering that Hallowe’en is in a few more days. Go ahead and play with your food: pumpkins are surprisingly cheap, whether you choose to eat them or carve them, or both. The big reddish-orange pumpkins that look stretched are known as Cinderella pumpkins. Photographed on a rainy October 15, 2014, at a local nursery.

Summer Harvest: Colourful Comestibles (III)

This gallery contains 5 photos. (More or less) natural goodness from the garden, part 3! This good-sized tomato is ripe, and splitting on the sides. It’s one of many tomato breeds that fruited this summer. Photographed on the evening of August 16 with external flash.

Summer Harvest: Colourful Comestibles (II)

This gallery contains 4 photos. (More or less) natural goodness from the garden, part 2! Flourishing blackberries in various stages of ripening. Photographed on a hot and sunny August 10th afternoon.

Summer Harvest: Colourful Comestibles (I)

This gallery contains 4 photos. (More or less) natural goodness from the garden! I couldn’t resist capturing the different colours of the bell peppers, blueberries, cucumbers, and lettuce in this big salad bowl. Photographed on July 21.

An Undressed Rainbow Salad

I love to play with my food, or at least make an art of it. A rainbow salad made of grape tomatoes, cabbage (green and purple), broccoli, green and yellow peppers, carrots, diced onions, and the disguised-at-the-bottom English cucumbers, and celery, just prior to the addition of Catalina and roasted yellow pepper salad dressings.

Daily Prompt: Pour Some Sugar on Me

pizzelles by distopiandreamgirl (CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0)

What is your favorite sweet thing to eat? Bread pudding? Chocolate chip oatmeal cookies? A smooth and creamy piece of cheesecake?

Tell us all about the anticipation and delight of eating your favorite dessert. Not into sweets? Tell us all about your weakness for that certain salty snack.

There’s this Italian delectable called pizzelles that I won’t pass up. In Chinese/Korean culture, these Italian waffle cookies, as they are also known, are rolled up and called love letters, and laver or coconut (seaweed) may be added during their production. The result is a crunchy and mouthwatering concoction in every bite. Even the bits that invariably break off

Gaga for Baba Ghannouj

White and green chickpeas (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I consider my tastes in food quite cosmopolitan, but when I started taking stock and cataloguing where my culinary fascination lies, I was quite surprised to discover that Middle Eastern cuisine numbers among them.

Hummus, tzatziki, chickpeas (garbanzo beans, stir fried or steamed-and-buttered), olives (especially the Manzanilla and Kalamata varieties), tabbouleh, honey, pitas, pistachios, pomegranates, dates, lamb, eggplant (in moussaka), saffron rice, and okra are high on my hit list of favourite edibles.