Food Photography

Winner in 86’d Food Photography Awards

Winner in 86’d Food Photography Awards

As part of her 86’d events Monday nights at the Drake, Ivy Knight ran the 86’d Food Photography Awards Night last night and one of my submission won the Phone Category! This photo which I call “Zane, Zane and Mark” which I took one day when Thundering Thelma was parked near Queen & Church and Mark Cutrara was serving a meatball sandwich at the truck. There were some amazing photos submitted, over 700 in fact. Check out the other winning photographs and finalists in this year’s awards: 2013 86′d Food Photography Awards Finalists & Winners Here are the other images…

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Mini Red Curry Meat Pies

Mini Red Curry Meat Pies

The last batch of mini meat pies just came out of the oven and cooling for tonight’s #MeatLuk hosted by @foodie411 These are a version of an appetiser I’ve served at cocktail parties in the past, but I switched it up a bit by using Thai red curry paste in lieu of the original curry powder. In fact I used the same curry paste I made for the most recent Chefs #LoveCDNbeef dish. I need to tweak the recipe a bit more since the subtle curry flavour in the filling becomes even more subtle when it’s in the pastry. Possibly…

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Longo’s Meets CheapEats: A Day Of Longo’s Meals

Longo’s Meets CheapEats: A Day Of Longo’s Meals

As Longo’s Ambassador and Chief CheapEater, I figured it was my duty to try out their prepared foods, especially since their current marketing is promoting Take it – Make it – Learn it (ready-to-eat, ready-to-cook, and how to cook).  So I recruited my partner-in-CheapEats Gerry and we spent a day at Longo’s eating every meal – breakfast, lunch and dinner – from their kitchens.   The ready-to-eat meals Longo’s prepares are made using the same ingredients they sell in the store, including the Taste Ontario products and produce, so it seemed to be a fun way to check out what they’d…

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Funky Cauliflower

Funky Cauliflower

Did a little photoshoot on the Romansco Cauliflower I got from Longo’s on Friday… played with the colour a little to see what was what and this what we got. Love the pointy little flowers. Not only beautiful but tasty! [Elaine just informed me that Benoit Mandlebrot, the founder of the field of fractal mathematics, died recently ) Sad coincidence that I selected this image of a beautiful fractal vegetable today.]

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Chicken & Mango

Chicken & Mango

So tasty! Fresh mango salad with chicken – nothing wrong there. California Thai in the Toronto Life Square food court, north east corner of Yonge & Dundas.

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Sapphire on Ice

Sapphire on Ice

One of the benefits of blogging about your favourite beverage is that from time to time you will arrive on an island to find your favourite gin in the liquor cabinet. The downside of finding your favourite gin in the liquor cabinet is that you will drink the gin. The downside of drinking the gin is that eventually there is no more of your favourite gin on the island. Most unfortunate when a big storm is blowing in. (sorry about the sideways photo, my phone crashes when I try and rotate it)

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Just In Case

Just In Case

I haven’t decided yet whether I will be participating in NaBloPoMo this year, but as I was sitting here weighing the pros and cons, I got an email from myfriendisKate.  She forwarded today’s Gourmet Weekly  pointing me to a little lex-flavoured tidbit which I completely, COMPLETELY, over-looked. (and I’m blogging about it just to cover my NaBloPoMo butt) Olympus has a new preset on some of their cameras – cuisine.  “The camera increases the saturation, sharpness and contrast settings to produce sharp, vivid images of the subject.”  Along with the 1cm super-macro on the SP-560 UZ this might be one…

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Moonbean Biscotti

Moonbean Biscotti

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Like Daughter Like Mother

Like Daughter Like Mother

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Time For Eggs

Time For Eggs

Why are these called “panned eggs”?

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Shrimp!

Shrimp!

A little Salt & Pepper Shrimp from my “dirty little secret” Chinadian buffet spot.

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Mushroom on my ‘Za

Mushroom on my ‘Za

 

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