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Looks good, especially the roast potatoes.




What does this mean?




Thanks.

Though I must say that a part of the reason my food photos look appetising is that I have been intently studying photography the past month, trying to learn/master it, and have a good quality camera to work with. I carefully analyse the best way to take the shot to look appealing. I also am very careful with cropping and retoutching and colour correcting and such, as I have 20 years experience with image file formats, so I can effectively save a high quality JPEG.

So basically my photos here are my practising to be a professional photographer, in a fun way.

That said, the chili/veggie stew did taste pretty good!




Some photo tips!

That's something I often deal with in my photos, arranging both the plate or bowl with food in a way that is photogenic, and choosing an angle for the shot which best captures the feel of the food. Try not taking a shot directly from above, as that gives far better perspective.

If at all possible, take shots without a flash with indirect sunlight (or with the camera in the shade and the food in the direct sun). Using a flash creates very unnatural looking colours for the food (unappealing) and not using a flash leads to severe blurriness without a tripod or other way to avoid the camera moving.

If it's night time and you want to take a shot of food, go to the brightest room in your house and turn on all the lights you can find. The more backlighting you have, the more rich and appealing the final colours will be. Even with a cheapo camera you can produce great photos if you stay aware of the lighting source and angle to your food (e.g. don't have light pointing into the camera lens, as it will wash out the colours). Ideally have a floodlight pointing in the same direction of the camera, from behind the camera. Or diffuse light, a floodlight bouncing off a ceiling or wall. Indirect light like that produces the best visuals with photography.



There are lots of vegan restaurants in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where I live -- but I've never heard of a school cafeteria being vegan, that's cool!



I can't encourage enough for people to consider not drinking factory farmed cow dairy. It is unfortunately absolutely toxic. It is not surprising that much of the world's population can't properly digest it, with the pasturisation then additives including growth hormones, antibiotics, steroids, and all the stuff that leeches in from the sick animal (pus, blood, etc.).

Numerous people who think they are "lactose intolerant" can drink whole milk just fine, no side-effects (whole, unpasturised milk, like you get from a cow).



I don't think many people would know what you meant, even those who are familiar with the many types of vegetarian diets. My girlfriend can't digest cow's milk well at all, but goat dairy doesn't bother her.



What is the reason for not wanting to deal with raw meat?



As far as good for your body/health is concerned, buying raw meat is vastly better than buying processed meat products. Though if it's still factory farmed meat, it has the same problems as factory farmed dairy products, much toxicity added. Far better to get meat from wild animals, or from a local smaller farm that doesn't use factory farming techniques.

It grosses me out. I'm just a tad germaphobic. The stuff I got is the natural, no artificial preservatives, no growth hormones, etc., etc....

Champ is an Irish dish composed of mashed potatoes mixed with spring onions or leek.

Interesting, thanks. It sounds good, I could make a vegan equivalent quite easily. Maybe I will try that tomorrow.


@Megz:
Your photo disappeared. If you're looking for somewhere to post photos, I find http://imageshack.us/ and http://tinypic.com/ are quite reliable. Cheers.

I just managed 4 of these for breakfast, they are huge and so sweet.
[From a grower in Perth, Scotland.]

A Sunday lunch..... meat day!



Grilled Shish Taouk and lamb meat




And some pepper, tomato and mushroom...

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What the hell is that? It must be called the heart attack meal.

Or 'living life in the fast lane' meal.

These aren't photos of mine.

But this is my favorite Sunday breakfast:

Full Mdammass (Patted fava beans + olive oil +lemon+ cumin + with vegetables...)



and a less patted version:

And I can still feel it four hours later.

Sure isn't this something like it?

What's called? I recall someone showed me one and it's called English or British Something....


is it true it's a breakfast meal? :ew:

The one above is an Ulster fry.

The English version is the most common and is the most well-known but each country in the British Isles has its own slightly different version. A Scottish version might have haggis or exclude something that the English version has, whereas the Ulster fry might have soda and potato bread whilst losing some things that the English version has. The Irish breakfast has white pudding, for instance, which the English version doesn't have.

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A meal I had a couple days ago, consisting of canola oil stir-fried crumbled tofu with cauliflower, carrot, celery, green and yellow beans, almonds and spices. Served with quinoa (a nutrient dense ancient grain, pronounced "keen-wah").

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Homemade veggie burgers I made a few days ago, pan-fried in canola oil.

The burgers are made from a base of quinoa and herbs from the garden: parsley, chives, oregano, mint, sage, oregano. Other ingredients include: chickpea flour; sunflower seeds; nutritional yeast; tamari (wheat free soya sauce); black pepper; parsley flakes; turmeric; various spices; other stuff that I can't remember now.

Update: I remembered that the other main ingredient was chickpea flour, mixed in with the quinoa.

Served with a slice of yellow tomato, some lettuce and chard from the garden, toasted thin rye bread with Earth Balance spread, and a sauce. The sauce for the burger patty consisted of balsamic vinegar with the last bits of ketchup in the bottle, to conveniently clean out the last remains in the bottle.

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Salad of English cucumber, lettuce, kale, carrot peelings and collards.

Oven roasted potatoes with olive oil, salt and black pepper.

Fried rice with parsley flakes, freshly picked herbs, canola oil.

A sauce of white beans, celery, cauliflower, brown sugar, fresh herbs, tomato-vegetable juice, tamari (wheat free soya sauce), dried chillies, bay leaf powder and other spices.