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Stopped my wife in the middle of making dinner the other night to take this as I really liked the lines ...
Vanilla slices are a firm favourite in British bakeries, cafés and cake shops.
The vanilla slice, Mille-feuille (French 'thousand sheets'), Napoleon (U.S.), cream slice or custard slice (Commonwealth countries) is a pastry made of several layers of puff pastry alternating with a sweet filling, typically pastry cream. It is usually glazed with icing or fondant in white with brown (chocolate) strips
The origin of the mille-feuille is unknown. The Hungarian city of Szeged may have something to do with its origins. Carême (writing at the end of the 18th century) considered it of 'ancient origin'. It was earlier called "gâteau de mille-feuilles", 'cake of a thousand leaves'.
This one is huge, the size you would get in a generous café or cake shop, and contains a jam layer amoungst the puff pastry layers as well as lashings of vanilla pastry cream. You'd have to est it with the assistance of with a pastry fork!! Yummy ;)
Designed completely by me ;)
Served nasi goreng in a decorative bowl. Ingredients nasi goreng recipe are sambal ulek, cooked rice, chopped tomato, sliced onion, fried pork pieces, macerated nasi goreng spice mix and two eggs. Wooden board with light effect. High point of view.
This is the newly developed Riverbank House, on the north bank of the River Thames. Such a striking design, made me look up and take a shot.
Not much time on Flickr, but here's a quick post from a trip to Bristol a few weeks ago. It's the detail from a new building being constructed in the Temple Quays area.
When
life is being hard,
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Looking back,
you will know:
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those moments in life.
SOME INFORMATION ON THE TOMATO:
The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, as are its close cousins tobacco, chili peppers, potato, and eggplant. The tomato is native to Central, South, and southern North America from Mexico to Argentina. It is a perennial, often grown outdoors in temperate climates as an annual, typically reaching to 1–3 m (3 to 10 ft) in height, with a weak, woody stem that often vines over other plants. The leaves are 10–25 cm long, odd pinnate, with 5–9 leaflets on petioles[1], each leaflet up to 8 cm long, with a serrated margin; both the stem and leaves are densely glandular-hairy. The flowers are 1–2 cm across, yellow, with five pointed lobes on the corolla; they are borne in a cyme of 3–12 together.
The word tomato derives from a word in the Nahuatl language, tomatl. The specific name, lycopersicum, means "wolf-peach" (compare the related species S. lycocarpum, whose scientific name means "wolf-fruit", common name "wolf-apple").
The tomato is grown worldwide for its edible fruits, with thousands of cultivars having been selected with varying fruit types, and for optimum growth in differing growing conditions. Cultivated tomatoes vary in size from cherry tomatoes, about the same 1–2 cm size as the wild tomato, up to beefsteak tomatoes 10 cm or more in diameter. The most widely grown commercial tomatoes tend to be in the 5–6 cm diameter range. Most cultivars produce red fruit; but a number of cultivars with yellow, orange, pink, purple, green, or white fruit are also available. Multicolored and striped fruit can also be quite striking. Tomatoes grown for canning are often elongated, 7–9 cm long and 4–5 cm diameter; they are known as plum tomatoes.
Tomatoes are one of the most common garden fruits in the United States and, along with zucchini, have a reputation for outproducing the needs of the grower.
Source: Wikipedia
When someone says to photograph food, I always think of candy. Here are some orange slices, macro style.
I'm always amazed at how perfectly thin and transparent veggies are once the mandolin is through with them. Unfortunately I cut my finger pretty badly with it the day I made this salad. I should've been more careful. The mandolin is such a great tool. I use it for all sorts of makeshift grating and zesting as well as slicing.