I enjoy making food. From the decision of what to make, all the way to the meal, eating the finished products. Yesterday I decided to make an onion soup for lunch. I found an onion and a garlic, and seeing them together I instantly knew that this would be something to blog about. And as soon as this thought came, a lot of ideas for photos followed. Soon I was just as busy finding my old fabric collection as I was chopping the onions.
Onion soup, so simple, so tasty. And a perfect way to make use of old, dry bread. With old lace collected from Italy, Poland, Denmark and a lot of other places, an onion and a garlic look like art.
As a child I learned not to play with food. Today I teach myself to play, have fun, enjoy, create.
Knowing that this will be put on my blog, doubles the fun. I am asking myself; what will my blog readers want to see, how can I arrange for the best photos? At the same time I am cooking for Terje, the biggest fan of my food, the biggest love of my life :-) and always there is a thought in my brain, no. in my heart - how will Terje like this.
The love of food. The food of love.
Today's post is not for Terje though, but for my blog readers. Terje has already eaten the soup, and I can tell you he loved it. You are here now to read this post. I am a fan of food blogs, and I can't count all the ohhhhs and ahhhhhhs I have said out load while visiting some of the thousands of food blogs out there. I am an amateur. Just a tiny, little one, pretenting for myself that I know how to design food. Know a tiny, little bit of it. But I am learning, and I enjoy the path I walk while collecting experience. So today I want to show you how I work with my food photos.
In a corner of the work bench in my kitchen I drape a table cloth, or a quilt, or some kind of handy fabric. And there I arrange the food.
While I have one eye on the photographing, the other one is on the food. Nothing must be burned.
Too often I am so busy with the food there is no time for photographing.
Then, when my family is waiting for the meal to be served, sitting around the table in the diningroom, I need to shoot a few more photos. While the others are teasing me - what are you doing? when will we get our food?
Not untill I have the shots I need for you is the food served. Than, in the evening, or another night, I have the pleasure of putting together words and photos for a blog post.
Enjoy the meal.
