Posts Tagged ‘vegetables’
leek
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged abstract, food, food photography, Inspiration, leeks, Photography, vegetables, white on December 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »
color struck
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged beauty, colors, Copley Square Farmers Market, food, food photography, fruits, Inspiration, Photography, vegetables on August 29, 2016| 1 Comment »
Though my excuse usually begins, “Let’s see if I can’t find something for dinner,” I’m usually not hungering for food when I meander through the Copley Square Farmers Market.
the unexpected philosophy of kale
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged food, food photography, Inspiration, kale, musings, perspective, Photography, vegetables on July 24, 2016| 1 Comment »
The kale was purchased from the farmers market yesterday. It is a big green bouquet sitting in a silver bowl of water next to the window in the kitchen. The wide frilled leaves are draped over my basil and a few other herbs. It’s temporary shade since we’ll soon eat it up. But until the cooking commences, sunlight shines through the larger leaves.
From across the room I could make out the pale tracery of the stem. It was that illumination that drew me across the room. That was what I intended to photograph, the stems and the various branching. But when I got close my eyes were drawn to something different.
The interior darknesses like shadows in a dense forest. The curling of the leaves. The subtle variation in the colors of green. The leaves reflected in the water like dark clouds in a white sky or fir trees reflected in a still pond.
It was an unexpected moment of observation and exploration of perspective. All to be found in a few leaves of kale. 😉
stems
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged beets, color, food, food photography, Inspiration, Photography, vegetables on June 8, 2016| 2 Comments »
assembly
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged colors, food, food photography, healthy eating, Inspiration, Photography, salads, vegetables on December 13, 2015| 1 Comment »
It was a salad made to let loose the day, of rising from my desk and moving about the kitchen, assembling different colors and textures into something aesthetic and theoretically healthy. In the end, it looked good. And, drizzled with some oil and vinegar, it all tasted pretty good too. 😉
late summer salad
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged beauty, colors, food, food photography, Inspiration, Photography, recipe, salads, vegetables on September 6, 2015| 1 Comment »
now the jicama …
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged food, food photography, jicama, lemon juice, Photography, vegetables on June 23, 2015| 1 Comment »
… that a friend recently shared, she had marinated in fresh squeezed lemon juice. She explained how to take the root, whether sliced or diced, and then toss into salads and other dishes for crunchiness. I kind of liked it cold, right out of the fridge, with a bit of sugar sprinkled on top.
simply reds in the kitchen
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged colors, food photography, Inspiration, Photography, red onions, simplicity, tomatoes, vegetables on May 20, 2015| 3 Comments »
and we have potatoes!
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged food, food photography, gardening, Inspiration, Photography, potatoes, vegetables on July 4, 2014| 4 Comments »
You can read the backstory on my indoor potato growing experiment here. Not exactly a bumper crop, but what fun!
color combinations
Posted in Inspiration, Kitchen Inspirations, tagged cucumbers, food, food photography, green onions, humor, peas, Photography, tomatoes, vegetables on March 27, 2014| 3 Comments »
Oh, yes, indeed. I was intentionally playing with my food.
It had been a long day of working with words. So, at the end of that day, the little kid in me just wanted to dabble in color.
I rose from my desk and walked real fast to the corner store, a Korean market where the owner always greets me with a smile.
She’s used to me now, sometimes entering her store, with no purpose, just to wander the aisles in a bit of a daze, trying to let go of a heady day.
But this day, I had a purpose. I knew I wanted vegetables to carry home and chop up and photograph in the light of the setting sun.
I wasn’t really thinking dinner. Luckily, Steve always is and so when he returned home, I simply showed him my colorful palette and he saw cooking ingredients. After a moment of thought, he nodded and said, “I can work with this.” He would add white garlic and red onions to the mix, but no images of these items do I have for this post because by then I had put my camera away.
Words + Images 