Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged breakfast, focus, food, food photography, fruit, granola, Inspiration, Photography, yogurt on June 26, 2013| 3 Comments »
I don’t know that it will help me focus any better this discombobulated day, but making myself get up from the computer, assemble the ingredients, and take a few shots before digging in … I did feel better afterward and it sure did taste good. Have a good Wednesday. 😉
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged food, food photography, fruit, Georgia O'Keeffe, Inspiration, Photography, plum, plums on March 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Inspiration, tagged citrus, colors, family, food, fruit, grapefruit, humor, Inspiration, memories, Photography on March 21, 2013| 6 Comments »
This is why I like having family fact checkers. After a friend recently gave me a grapefruit, I simply remembered that my mother used to love that fruit. When I called my brother, he was able to add, “Yep. That’s right. She used to gum ’em.”
You see she had false teeth that she only wore for school meetings or doctor visits. At home there was no need for pretense. Gum the fruit, she may have, but she also had lovely serrated spoons made special for scooping out grapefruit pulp. According to my brother, the whole family ate the sour fruit and with lots and lots of sugar. He said that he and I shared a single fruit. When most of the pulp was gone, we would try to squeeze the last remnants of juice into a glass.
“So we shared?” I said with a smile. He agreed, and then added, “Unless you made me mad. Then I’d put dogfood in the glass.” It’s those little details … 😉
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged colors, food, fruit, Georgia O'Keeffe, Inspiration, o keeffe, Photography, plum, plums on March 20, 2013| 5 Comments »
When I picked up the O’Keeffe book at the used bookstore recently, I was expecting to be influenced by paintings of leaves and flowers and those bones. I was not expecting the image of The Plums (1920) to remain with me so strongly. So far, I have only purchased 1 plum. We’ll see what the future holds.
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, Nature Notes, tagged apple, essay, fruit, imagination, Inspiration, leaf, nature, Photography, prose on March 19, 2013| 9 Comments »
I can’t yet see the words but I feel them, somewhere, somehow, embodied in this apple with its lovely leaf. Yes, a weight of hidden words. I hope to find them before the month’s end, to glimpse their fragile figures before they disappear into the ether. Or at least before the apple disappears inside me.
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged abstract art, bananas, colors, Dr. Seuss, food, food photography, fruit, humor, imagination, Inspiration, Photography, poetry, prose on March 13, 2013| 4 Comments »
I do not like bananas.
I do not like them green or gold.
I do not like them hot or cold.
I do not like them with pretty brown spots.
I do not like them cut into pots.
I do not like them sliced thick or thin,
not even when placed in a bright shiny tin.
Eat a banana that looks like gourmet abstract art?
No, my dear Sam.
I’d rather eat my wheat bread with ham.
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged blood oranges, cocktail, colors, drinks, food, food & drink, food photography, fruit, moro, Photography, recipes on March 12, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I have a friend who loves to make a gin and tonic cocktail of sorts, and he loves to eat moro, or blood, oranges. One day I asked him why not try adding blood oranges to the recipe. This is what he came up with. Not rocket science he would say, but oh so very delicious with or without alcohol.
Blood Orange Cocktail
1-2 moro (blood) oranges
sparkling water
limeade (something all natural with no added sugar)
gin*
Juice the oranges, retaining a bit of the pulp. Split the juice and pulp between 2 chilled glasses. Add gin (or not*) to taste. Top off the drink with sparkling water and limeade. If you want to be completely over the top, add some sliced limes just before serving. 😉
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged colors, food, food photography, fruit, Inspiration, Photography, red, strawberries, sweet on March 12, 2013| 7 Comments »
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged colors, food, fruit, Inspiration, Photography, red, strawberries on February 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged blood orange, citrus, colors, food, food photography, fruit, Inspiration, moro, Photography, weather on February 7, 2013| 8 Comments »
Here in New England we’re awaiting the arrival of what’s being called an epic snowstorm. A might coating of white will cover the land soon enough. Maybe that’s why I’m drawn to the warm oranges and reds of the moro or blood orange. Given the amount of digging I’ll be doing over the next few days, I’ll need all the Vitamin C I can get. Wherever you are in the world, be well. 😉
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