Take A Photo Of Your Latest Meal.

[ivan astikov]

Go on, beat that if you can!

[ivan astikov]

From a different angle.


I particularly like the atomic mushroom cloud-shaped fish pieces. A nice touch, I thought.

[Myglaren]

Too late, it's all gone!

[ivan astikov]

Take one of your next meal then.

Then, when you are hungry later, you can look at it and remind your belly you've already eaten.

[Dangerously Unqualified]

So, those are the fabled fish fingers.

And some nice fat chips you have there as well.

I'll bring something tasty a little later then.

[OneCentStamp]

[OneCentStamp]

[Jeff]

You took your bra off before you ate?

[Jeff]

I call this one "Turkey Burger and Baked Potato Still Life"

[Dangerously Unqualified]

Home made Chicken Salad with Cottage Cheese / Crackers with Cream Cheese and Jalapeno Jelly.

[ivan astikov]

That second plate looks evil, DU. Did you really eat that?

[OneCentStamp]

Lunch just now for artifex and me:

It is Hatch Chile Fest time here, so we've been enjoying lots of roasted chiles lately. Today's lunch was homemade corn and chile muffins, split and pan-toasted, with organic black bean chili, jack cheese, more chiles, and cilantro, plus sour cream for me and fresh salsa for artifex. Beverage of choice was St. Arnold Amber Ale.

Aside: She actually tried to make this post herself, but apparently she is not allowed to post images. Did we put up a minimum post count for image posting, to fight off spam attacks? I mean, she's been here for months and has at least 20-25 posts. :dub:

[Glazer]

Lunch just now for artifex and me:

It is Hatch Chile Fest time here, so we've been enjoying lots of roasted chiles lately. Today's lunch was homemade corn and chile muffins, split and pan-toasted, with organic black bean chili, jack cheese, more chiles, and cilantro, plus sour cream for me and fresh salsa for artifex. Beverage of choice was St. Arnold Amber Ale.

Aside: She actually tried to make this post herself, but apparently she is not allowed to post images. Did we put up a minimum post count for image posting, to fight off spam attacks? I mean, she's been here for months and has at least 20-25 posts. :dub:

Yes the threshold was set at 30 post.

[Sleeps w/Butterflies]

And no, I didn't eat all of that!

[OneCentStamp]

You took your bra off before you ate?

That's actually the wrapper my dessert came in, AKA panties.

[kk fusion]

Not my latest meal, but the last one I found good enough to take a photo of.

Louisiana Shrimp Boil


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[kk fusion]

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Yes, they are. For some users they seem to have been automatically disabled during the transfer though.

[Sleeps w/Butterflies]

Breakfast!

[Hatshepsut]

This wasn't my latest meal, but a recent one - on the boat we stayed on for four days in Kalimantan. This is what they fed us for lunch every day:

[OneCentStamp]

Geezus, that looks amazing, Carol.

[Myglaren]

By myglaren, shot with PENTAX Optio E60 at 2009-09-26

Mushrooms fried in herb butter (wondered what I was going to do with it, meant to pick up the garlic butter) nomlette and vine tomatoes.
ten minutes to prepare and cook, half an hour to eat it, made far too much.
First meal in four days.

Not a patch on CairiCarol's feast of course.

[Dragon]

Why are you not eating?

This was my last meal... Bawahahahaa

[OneCentStamp]

Mushrooms fried in herb butter (wondered what I was going to do with it, meant to pick up the garlic butter) nomlette and vine tomatoes.
ten minutes to prepare and cook, half an hour to eat it, made far too much.
First meal in four days.

Not a patch on CairiCarol's feast of course.

That looks really good, actually. Anything in or on the omelette?

[Myglaren]

Just some extra mature Cheddar cheese.

[OneCentStamp]

Chipotle corn chowder, made by the lovely and talented artifex, topped with grated white cheddar and garnished with chopped cilantro. Sweet at first taste, with a surprisingly strong and lengthy burn on the end of each spoonful - the perfect meal for a houseful of people fighting off colds.

[OneCentStamp]

Cranberry oatmeal cookies with a white chocolate drizzle. The white chocolate was actually tough to get right. The cookies were great - chewy, with nutmeg rather than cinnamon the main spice, and with tart fresh (well, frozen, but I mean as opposed to dried or candied) cranberries to balance the sweet drizzle.

[Cluricaun]

You live the most photogenic existance of anyone I've ever met. My life is much more drab and blurry than yours.

[OneCentStamp]

You live the most photogenic existance of anyone I've ever met. My life is much more drab and blurry than yours.

It is 110% her doing. With a nice, but not absurdly extravagant digital camera (I think it was around $300), she takes amazing photos, then does an amazing job of cleaning and enhancing them on the computer. Being around her has opened my eyes to stuff like light, contrast, and spacing. Note that I say "opened my eyes to," not "taught me about." I only know enough to know that I suck at taking pictures by comparison.

[Hatshepsut]

Yep, artifex could easily do professional food photography - and food is notoriously difficult to photograph well.

[Papaw]

I ordered the Jambalaya at B J 's Microbrewery in Webster, Texas, last week when we went there to celebrate our son's birthday.
The food was great, the Stout was great, and the Porter I had later was even better.

[Papaw]

Not a meal, but food anyway-
I'll start with a confession. Last year my daughter-in-law gave me a Beer Bread in a Bottle for Christmas. I left in in a cabinet all year, forgetting I had it.
This year my wife bought another, so tonight I baked the bread. It was easy. I can't say it is the best bread ever, but it is good.
Amber Harvest Mills Cheese Flavor Beer Bread mix, distributed by Dat'l Do-It, Inc. St. Augustine, Fl 32084

[OtakuLoki]

Thank you, Papaw. I'd not heard of beer breads before this.

Now after a little googling, I'm looking at the recipes and variations shown here, from the blog "A Year in Bread."

If you look at the ingredients you might tell your family to stop buying the beer bread mixes, though - unlike most bread recipes that are said to be simple, this one really does look foolproof and easy:

The basic recipe from the linked site:

3 cups all purpose flour
1 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
and the beer.

Bake in a loaf pan for ~40 minutes at 375 F, and you're set.

The opportunities for variations seem endless, and again much simpler and cheaper than the prices I've seen for mixes online.

[Papaw]

True enough, but I like the bottles that I can put on a shelf for all to see after the bread has been eaten. I have baked bread from recipes like that many times and I agree it is as easy and cheaper.

[jali]

I like the Snow White sink.

[OneCentStamp]

I ordered the Jambalaya at B J 's Microbrewery in Webster, Texas, last week when we went there to celebrate our son's birthday.
The food was great, the Stout was great, and the Porter I had later was even better.

I really like BJ's. These days, their beers are actually brewed by St. Arnold, which is a good thing IMHO; SA is one of the things I will miss most if and when I ever move out of Houston!

Also, I agree with jali - the beer bread looks delicious, but that Snow White sink is awesome!

[Papaw]

I hear St Arnold's is doing well with their Saturday Open House on Lyons Ave. Brewery Tours

[OneCentStamp]

I hear St Arnold's is doing well with their Saturday Open House on Lyons Ave. Brewery Tours

I totally want to go! I've been to the old brewery tour a dozen times, the last few with artifex, but not the new one. We need to go again, if only to cash in the ever-growing pile of six pack carriers we're growing.

[ivan astikov]

Nothing exciting this evening, just a bowl of Mulligatawny soup and a few slices of bread with bits in it.

[jali]

I was going to take a picture of the homophobic British food that I love, but I couldn't help it. I ate it!

Ptump-bah!










Nah, only joshing. I just had coffee since I'm not feeling well tonight.