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The original Bermudian meal consists of salted codfish, boiled potatoes, bananas, boiled eggs and avocado. While some might recoil in fear at the ingredient list, for those brave foodies, it’s the authentic Bermudian breakfast.
Baked codfish; Green Mango Salad; Red Lentil Stew; Yogurt Sauce
unfortunately, all of my photos of Felicity's dishes came out blurry since I couldn't keep my hands still while reaching over.
I am finishing up a project for the Marblehead Arts Festival, decorating a wooden cutout of a codfish, to be displayed and then auctioned off. I am decorating my codfish with a design inspired by Portuguese azulejos (blue and white tiles), and I have named my codfish "Bela Bacalhau". A few days ago, I finished drawing in all the design elements (see post for May 6). But I was still thinking hard about adding color to one of the design elements: the "wave" design on the inside of the square. My choices were to leave it as is (the safest option), to color it in with dark blue to match the outline, or to add a second blue color. I couldn't decide so I decide to do some trial runs. I had already made a rough sketch in pencil on a piece of paper (4" x 4") so the squares were just about "life sized". I grabbed my sharpies and quickly outlined the shapes in dark blue. Then I tried out some color variations in the four squares: waves in white, dark blue, and a lighter blue. In one square, I also tried adding color to the circular element. This is a very rough sketch, but it helped me to visualize the problem, and I was able to show this sketch to my beleaguered family members to see which option they preferred. To be continued.
Codfish fried in za'atar-wu-zayt, basmati rice with turmeric, glass with za'atar-wu-zayt. Garnishing herbs are mint and chive. Za'atar-wu-zayt sauce.
Today was nuts and I didn't get to work on this project until after dinner, but then I had some time to concentrat. I am decorating making a wooden codfish for the Marblehead Festival of the Arts. Some 50 local artists are decorating codfish for an auction to benefit the Marblehead Arts Association. This is my third year participating, and this year my codfish, Cecelia, will be decorated with musical scales -- C scales. Tonight I finished drawing the design onto the wooden cutout. I had already drawn and inked the design on paper (posted here on April 22) But since then, I had decided to make some adjustments, so there were still some placement issues to work out. For the past couple of days, I had been using a mechanical pencil it was leaving too much graphite on the gesso. So tonight I switched to a nice hard art pencil and things improved. I still did a lot of cleanup afterward, but now I think I will be able to start inking and painting the surface the final background color, which is going to be an iridescent silver. If you want to get a general idea of where this is headed, follow this link to see "Bella Bacalhau," last year's entry: www.flickr.com/photos/randiart/26803421380/