10 Tips for Photographing Food
If you want your foodie photos to look as yummy as those in recipe books, follow these ten tasty tips. Here's the Cliffs Notes version:
Edible Crayons from Luxirare
C'mon - admit it... you've tasted your Crayolas. And they taste like...well, the way they smell.
Not so with these edible crayons from fashion and food site Luxaire. The colors are just as bold, but the medium itself is totally edible.
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How To Make Olive Penguins.
Try floating one of these in your next Ultimate Arctic Martini.
From Serious Eats: "These are probably meant for six-year olds, but they still provide me with gobs of joy. All you need is a black olive (for the penguin head), a bigger one (for the bulbous bod), a little carrot medallion (with a triangle sliced out for the beak), and a mozzarella ball (or cream cheese works). Extra credit if you can make them an edible igloo. It's pretty...
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The World's Most Expensive Foods
Know what this gnarly thing is? If you guessed a white truffle, you'd be correct. But did you know that they can cost up to $2,700 per pound?
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How To: Shrunken Apple Heads.
I got The Amazing Apple Book for Christmas 1993, and I adored each of its pages. My favorite project included carving a face in a fresh, ripe apple and leaving it out to dry and shrivel into a little fruit flavored shrunken face...though my parents always made me store mine in the basement, and they usually caught a coat of mold.
But, Floral Showers seems to have this perfect fall project down. Super fun!
This one above my favorite: It looks...
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Meat Head.
So, it's kinda like not being able to look away from a flaming car crash, but it'll still make you giggle.
"Hubby discovered that whipped cream cheese (whip your own with a mixer) made wonderful "glue". Smear it all over a cheap skull then cover it with thin slices of meat (ham seems to look the best). The eyes are olives stuffed into martini onions." From Flickr.
Happy Halloween, hamfaces.
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How to Make Great Packed Lunches for Work.
'Cept, it's also rarely healthful, and those $5 a day can quickly add up week after week. The answer, of course, is to pack your own...and with these tips from DumbLittleMan, you can keep your brownbags interesting, healthful, and inexpensive.
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20 Foods That Freeze Surprisingly Well...and 20 That Don't.
The fall harvest, prolific gardens, bulk discount stores, or weekend cooking frenzies. We often find ourselves with an abundance of deliciousness, but full bellies. So what to do with long-term leftovers and extra ingredients? As it turns out, your freezer is just as suited to hold fresh ingredients and homemade dishes as commercial pizza rolls and popsicles.
DIYLife lists twenty foods that freeze perfectly, and twenty that won't fare so...
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How To: Growing Sprouts.
All you need is a mason jar.
Growing sprouts is super easy, super inexpensive, super nutritious, and makes a super great project for those who aren't home often and have a hard time taking care of other plants.
Simply pick your seeds, such as "alfalfa, broccoli, buckwheat, cabbage, chickpea, garlic, lentil, oats, yellow mustard, peas, onion, radish, sunflower, fennel, arugula, pink kale, fenugreek, wheat, or wheatgrass." Soak them overnight, and...
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Funky Lunch :: Sandwich Creations.
These are way cooler than those gnarled tomatoes with the scary eye implants.
"Funky Lunch was born out of the desire to turn an ordinary lunchtime sandwich into something a bit different to encourage children to try and eat a varied and healthy lunch."
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The Littlest Veggie Gardens
What's better than chomping on food you grew yourself? Not a lot really. Except maybe chomping on food you grew yourself in a tiny space, without a garden, as if by MAGIC (like 8th-floor-balcony, middle-of-the-city Sweet Peppers). TheKitchn has a roundup of the loveliest, tiniest veggie patches for us urbanites looking for inspiration to play in the dirt. There are links to the best crops for pots ("crops" squee!) and a how-to on building...
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Freaky Food Fun: Spaghetti-Laced Hot Dogs.
Yeah, so, the details are in Russian, but it's one of those projects where the photo conveys the step-by-stepness: gather some hot dogs (or my fave alternatives, the Tofurky Chipotle Franks by Turtle Island or SoyBoy NotDogs), insert some uncooked pasta, and then boil until al dente.
Of course, it's not something you'd probably actually eat, unless with a mind blowing sauce (but even then...really?), but tasty consumption's not really the...
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Zoomed in Food, a Pictorial
Spotted these bizarre--but oh-so-clever--images the other day on fresh99. No word on who created them, but my compliments to the photographer.
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Obama Sushi.
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Make Your Own Vanilla Extract.
It was a disaster.
So, I dried my tears, and went to grocery store and bought all new pantry...
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Trendspotting: Plant a Victory Garden
The epitome of DIY-ing in this economy is being played out in the growing (sorry) number of dutiful stewards planting a victory garden. This week the L.A. Times shined the light on this trend and environmentally responsible activity of good old-fashioned garden tending.
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Clean Silverware Quick!
Holidays are nearly here, which means it's almost time to break out the fancy flatware.
In my family polishing the silverware for big shindigs was always a job delegated to kids and grown-ups not quick enough to come up with an excuse. At the time I hated it but now... kinda comforting.
If you have neither the time nor the inclination (or a few children to use as cheap labour) to get with the polishing, then you could try the quick...
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How To: Make Your Own Gummy Candy.
"Bears and worms aren't very similar, until you think....gummy." -Demetri Martin, These Are Jokes
Yeah, but bears and worms are SO 1922...and 1981.
So, instead, make your own. SFHandyMan has provided a great detailed instructable on creating your own candies out of a DIY silicon mold. He's chosen Legos as his design, and its remarkable how finely sculpted the results are. The details are more defined than in commercial candies!
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How To: Dye Pasta For Crafting.
First, there was just plain old semolina yellow. Then, they got fancy (tacky?) and developed the tri-color by using spinach and tomato products to tint you rotini. Now, embrace the rainbow by coloring your pasta ANY shade you may choose with vibrant, punchy results. This is a great medium for kids, or for some tongue-in-cheek nostalgia...perhaps some macaroni macrame?
Materials
- food colouring
- dried pasta of any shape
- rubbing alcohol
- ...
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Video How-To: Sustainable Food Shopping.
Improving your home's efficiency and lessening your dependence of fossil fuels is only part of the necessary change. You also have to eat like you give a damn. Check out Dr. Bill Chameides' first video for The Green Grok on sustainable food shopping.
