{"id":1363,"date":"2014-07-08T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T11:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2015-05-04T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T15:22:09","slug":"some-food-is-just-not-photogenic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/some-food-is-just-not-photogenic\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Food is Just NOT Photogenic"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I’ve begun work on another project. (Like I needed another one, right?)<\/p>\n

Several years ago, my mother put together a collection of her favorite recipes.\u00a0 She called it Legacy<\/em>, and had copies printed up for my brother and myself.<\/p>\n

The first thing that you need to understand is that my mother has mad skills in the kitchen.\u00a0 Those of you who know me, know that I’m a pretty good cook, and I have a few advanced skills (I can cook for a hundred if need be), but please understand that my mother is such a good cook that I despair of ever matching her skill.\u00a0 Some of that comes from experience, she does have 2o or so years on me when it comes to cooking, and some of it comes from the fact that, unlike myself, she will ear anything… <\/em>except celery.\u00a0 (Inexplicably celery is of the devil and shall only be used in one very traditional recipe of her mothers.)\u00a0 Being a vegetarian severely limits me as a cook and when cooking new dishes I have to rely on the judgment of others in adjusting the flavoring of these dishes as even a few tastes, besides revolting me, will have me laid up in bed like I’ve got the norovirus.\u00a0 Beyond all that though, my mother has a gift.\u00a0 Her sense of smell and taste are highly acute, and she loves\u00a0<\/em>food.\u00a0 She has traveled fairly widely and has been able to afford to experience haute cuisine.\u00a0 She is no food snob, however, and will never turn her nose up at a hole in the wall.<\/p>\n

The second thing that you need to understand is that she has recently been very interested in photography.\u00a0 It began with food photography but it has taken off quickly, and she is becoming quite good at it as well.<\/p>\n

So yesterday, I was looking up a recipe out of Legacy<\/em>, and was noticing how few and poor quality were the pictures that accompanied the recipes.\u00a0 So I hoped on Facebook and challenged her to start taking more pictures for the book, so that we could reprint it in a more attractive format.\u00a0 Her response was “And what are YOU going to do for it? You have camera skills as good as or better than mine. It does sound like a nice idea though.<\/span><\/span><\/span>”<\/p>\n

This post is the result.\u00a0 Here is my first contribution to the project… And it is a dismal failure.\u00a0 I picked the first recipe in the book.\u00a0 I had never tried it before, and it sounded tasty.\u00a0 It was, but it sho wont purty.\u00a0 I’m not sure if it can be made pretty, but let me know in the comments section which you think is the best.\u00a0 Maybe my mother can do better.\u00a0 She may be posting some over on her blog Diner IS the Evening<\/a>.\u00a0 I’ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n

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I bet the recipe would be handy, so that you know what you are looking at.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n