Here are a few images of food photographer Ilian Iliev's work. Just do yourself a favour and go to his website which is as fun to peruse as the work is stunning! www.ilian.co.uk
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Happy Fat Tuesday and Pancake Day!
To all my friends in and away from New Orleans:
Mardi Gras is all about masquerading.
Beads in the air...and trees.
What happens at Mardi Gras stays at Mardi Gras!
For everyone else it's just Tuesday...hang on it's Pancake Day all over the world!
It's definitely Pancake Day in London!
How many will you have?
Here's some I made earlier...
...and here's what I topped them with!
Happy Fat Tuesday and Pancake Day everybody!
Friday, 17 February 2012
Nike Air Max 90 Burger Sneaker
Maybe I'd be more inclined to start running again if these were my trainers....or maybe I'd need new trainers.
Swedish designer Olle Hemmendorff's Nike Air Max 90 Burger Sneaker
Check out loads more fun food fashions at delish.com
Check out loads more fun food fashions at delish.com
Saturday, 21 January 2012
Smy Rhubarb Curd & Lemon Curd Tart
I'm all about experimenting when I cook and I love to find new ways to use my homemade chutneys, jellies and jams...and curds! It's exciting times in the studio as I am sharing space with some interesting and creative people as seen in the above video - Aimee, Lucia and Sam. I mentioned to one of said interesting people, Aimee, that I really fancied making...and eating...a rhubarb tart. It wasn't until later on in the evening that I realised I didn't have enough butter to make the pastry. I think I need to stop right now and say that this NEVER happens as I adore and believe in butter. This is mainly as I've been taking a bit of a break since Christmas and I always have kilos of butter in the fridge to satisfy lemon curd orders. Back to tonight's tart, I was feeling a bit lazy and couldn't face popping to the shops when it occurred to me that I had a half pound kilner jar of lemon curd in the fridge and that essentially there was a lot of butter in there. So I decided to make an alternative pastry with lemon curd binding it together rather than butter. For the pastry I used:
100g of rice flour
50g of plain flour
50g of strong brown flour
100ml of lemon curd
4tbsp of water
I blended them all together and left it to sit and rest in the fridge for about half an hour.
I then lightly dusted the pastry, board and rolling pin and rolled the pastry to about a half a centimetre in thickness and placed in on a dish that I had lightly dusted with rice flour. I like using rice flour in pastries as I think it gives it a lighter texture. I then lightly pressed the pastry into place and used a fork to flute the pastry.
I put about four tablespoons of lemon curd and spread this over the pastry. I then took four tablespoons of Smy rhubarb curd and gently layered that on top of the lemon curd. I then repeated another layer of about four tablespoons of lemon curd and arranged rhubarb segments in the curd layers.
Then I popped the tart into an oven that had been preheated to 180℃ for half-an-hour and then I left it to cool.
The tart was light and tangy and proved a perfect Friday afternoon treat for the studio. Rhubarb season is just about to kick off and it's one of my favourite ingredients and you can expect rhubarb chutney, rhubarb curd and rhubarb and ginger jam to all be back in stock shortly. You can also expect more tasting videos this year and lots of new and exciting flavours and recipes.
and remember...
Saturday, 14 January 2012
I want these for the market!
Photographer Fulvio Bonavia’s shot ‘Food Dresses’ for Garage Magazine which was styled by Giovanna Battaglia and featured Prada, Louis Vuitton, Alexander MQueen and Moncler dresses that were recreated with food!
Orange and Lemons say the gowns of Miuccia Prada
Walnuts whipped into Louis Vuitton
Lettuce greens for McQueen
(Via Fashionista)
Sunday, 1 January 2012
Happy New Year!!!
Hoping that 2012 is a stellar year for everyone and thanks to everyone for making 2011 such a great year for me and Smy Chutney. I absolutely love this video and I hope it encapsulates what 2012 will be all about!
Tuesday, 27 December 2011
My New Friends - Jimmu and Retromarche
Here are my two new friends, Jimmu (yellow) and Retromarche (orange), who were very sweetly given to me as a Christmas present.
Many years ago I had a much larger fish tank with several fish and filter prawns in there and they were great fun but inevitably and eventually they all died and I moved and left the fish tank there. I'm in a bit of a quandry as I'm not sure how humane it is for these two fish to be in their fishbowl and two minutes worth of googling confirms that it isn't very. I'm hoping to get another tank but in the meantime I'm changing water every other day and keeping a close eye on them. Perhaps these would make nice alternative fish gifts:
Many years ago I had a much larger fish tank with several fish and filter prawns in there and they were great fun but inevitably and eventually they all died and I moved and left the fish tank there. I'm in a bit of a quandry as I'm not sure how humane it is for these two fish to be in their fishbowl and two minutes worth of googling confirms that it isn't very. I'm hoping to get another tank but in the meantime I'm changing water every other day and keeping a close eye on them. Perhaps these would make nice alternative fish gifts:
Joost Elffers and Saxton Freymann's bok choy fish from their brilliant book Food Play.
This video and Riusuke Fukahori's work is incredible and can be seen at the ICN Gallery on Leonard St until 11 Jan 2012.
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