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Brian was so pleased when he was selected to appear on the BBC cooking show Master Chef, but he is now rather concerned - he thought he had applied to be a contestant...
Pesto is a generic term for anything made by pounding. The word pestle derives from an old verb meaning to pound or crush.
For Macro Mondays theme 'Tool'. This image shows my very small mortar and pestle used for grinding spices.
No snails were crushed, ground up or otherwise harmed in the making of this image.
“We’re Here!” Today explaining the Mediterranean way of life in pictures. Food, of course, is an important aspect of that. In recent years “The Mediterranean Diet” has become codified and packaged, and I don’t pay much attention to all of that. But the basic ingredients have been among my favorites since childhood. Dinner tonight is going to be a very simple affair.
This is my image for category 97, “Simple Pleasures” in the group 120 pictures in 2020.
Today Pasta was the theme for Macro Mondays.... and that's what we had, with a tomato salad, for Dinner tonight.
Yummy super Yummy!!
Of course it is larger then 3" and not in the group.
The Flickr Lounge-Photographer's Choice
Stu brought this Basil home today. He was jamming with some friends and one fellow who he was playing with is an Entomologist (he's a bug expert) who gave Stu this basil. The basil was grown at Cornell University. They were doing experiments on using different forms of light to see how plants react to it. I used the Basil to make some Walnut Pesto.
Time for lunch at ”We’re Here!” We are having Macaroni, Pasta,Spaghetti, Noodles !
I made some compromises here, meeting somewhere between “luscious” and low-cal “virtuous.” This is whole wheat pasta, tomatoes, spinach, reduced-oil pesto, and a sprinkle of non-fat mozzarella. And it was delicious.
homemade pasta sprinkled with chilli powder alongside cheese sauce and basil pesto, with servings of tomato and grapes
freshly made homemade pasta cooked, strained and just before plating blended in extra virgin olive oil flic.kr/p/2rKi22G
cheese sauce was leftover from a dish cooked earlier in the week flic.kr/p/2rLeVPs
cheese sauce recipe
i made a white sauce by mixing butter and flour to a roux with turmeric, then slowly added skimmed milk, stirring all the time and finally blended grated cheddar cheese
white sauce recipe www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/whitesauce_1298
basil pesto removed from the countertop freezer and slowly defrosted flic.kr/p/2rJVA7y
basil pesto ingredients blended in the nutribullet until smooth
(adjustments made along the way to get the taste how i like it)
the leaves from a bunch of basil www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-fresh-basi...
a small handful of cashew nuts www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/fudco-cashew-nuts-250...
a large tablespoonful of philadelphia light soft cheese www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/philadelphia-light-18...
lemon juice from one lemon
extra virgin olive oil - a good tablespoonful
just one thing with michael mosley
food special with professor tim spector
7 days 30 different plant based foods
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ngjx
ps i'm not recommending any of these cookery adventures. they suit my personal taste. photographing to encourage myself to eat more healthily ...
i've created a group www.flickr.com/groups/cooking_is_my_hobby/ to gather ideas and encourage myself to continue with healthy eating by learning from others if you're interested in cooking, sometimes or a lot, or enjoy the cooking of others, you're always welcome ...
basil pesto to be served with skillet pizza this evening's meal www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-pizza-on-the-stove-top-9540... shown are the ingredients prepared for the pizza topping
it was going to be homemade spaghetti but i realised too late that i was following the pizza dough recipe. i'll make the spaghetti another day :)
pizza dough recipe www.dovesfarm.co.uk/products/organic-pasta-pizza-flour i followed the instructions on the reverse of the packet
my thanks to Cive N for the idea of making basil pesto and the recipe flic.kr/p/2rJxAGb
basil pesto ingredients blended in the nutribullet until smooth
(adjustments made along the way to get the taste how i like it)
the leaves from a bunch of basil www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-fresh-basi...
a small handful of cashew nuts www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/fudco-cashew-nuts-250...
a large tablespoonful of philadelphia light soft cheese www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/philadelphia-light-18...
lemon juice from one lemon
extra virgin olive oil - a good tablespoonful
just one thing with michael mosley
food special with professor tim spector
7 days 30 different plant based foods
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ngjx
ps i'm not recommending any of these cookery adventures. they suit my personal taste. photographing to encourage myself to eat more healthily ...
i've created a group www.flickr.com/groups/cooking_is_my_hobby/ to gather ideas and encourage myself to continue with healthy eating by learning from others if you're interested in cooking, sometimes or a lot, or enjoy the cooking of others, you're always welcome ...
Strange effects of thermic case on pasta LOL (That cylinder is "pesto alla genovese" = pasta with basil sauce).
Thanks to Zu: that was a really good pasta :)
with alaskan smoked salmon. with summer in full swing, i had plenty of basil in the yard begging to be used. hence, the inspiration for this dish.
home
Rach made some pesto on Sunday evening, and I played around with some lighting and the ingredients. Always helpful, that's me ;)
Anyway, I haven't really tried product photography before... The items are placed on black acrylic with a black board behind light from above right with a Canon 550ex covered with a softbox.
11/52: Green - I had great fun making fresh pasta al pesto with my daughter last night. Delicious result and a great photo op as it happens.
Well, I'm now into the double digits with this photo-per-week photo project and I've only missed one so far, which is impressive given my summer-induced lethargy :-)
As mentioned previously, in the interest of re-igniting my photo-mojo I've got together with some online photog friends, including Meremail, SnapClickTripod, S_Freer, JSPhotography/Jenn and Blake's Mum (all of whom I've met on Flickr at some point in time). We've set ourselves a 52 Week project with the aim of shooting and posting at least 1 image per week to a theme/topic.
I'll be posting some of the results, such as they are, here on Flickr as well as on my various social media pages, below:
instagram.com/thesometimephotographer/
Facebook www.facebook.com/LyndaHPhotography
Apologies to all my wonderful contacts for lack of comments and visits on my part, but real life is constantly intruding and posting and running is all I'm able to manage these past few months. I do try to visit your photostreams regularly, but I'm afraid that a "fave" is all I'm managing of late - so sorry!