This pasta salad dish is very healthy and quick to make. I substituted my own sauce using 1/3 cup Tahini sauce, teaspoon each of olive oil, lemon juice and mustard. Photos below are ones I shot the other day. Here’s the recipe I followed. https://www.ambitiouskitchen.com/vegan-pasta-primavera/
While the Covid Pandemic was changing mine and others lifestyles, I decided to take up Food Photography. I was staying at home more.
To produce food images, you need to cook it yourself. So I learned to cook new dishes and try my hand at photographing food. I still need to get better lighting equipment for a more professional look, but I’ve become a decent cook in the meantime. I also found that when you cook yourself, you tend to eat healthier because you’re using fresh ingredients without preservatives and added sugars.
The images you’ll see are my own but I will also provide a link for the recipes I used to produce the dishes. My go to website is https://www.ambitiouskitchen.com/
Been working on perfecting my homemade pizza, trying to recreate what I ate as a kid growing up in NYC area. First is a deep dish baked in a cast iron skillet it turned out to be too deep and doughy. The second one was a thinner crust and had actual air pockets in crust due to the fact I let the dough rise for over 24 hours! I baked this pizza on a pizza steel at 525 degrees for 12 minutes.
Copper Top BBQ is the best restaurant in the USA as voted by Yelp in 2015. It’s not the best I’ve ever been to but the food is pretty good. It’s a walk-up joint with five picnic tables and a few bales of hay to sit on. Copper Top is located in Big Pine, California and I passed it as I was exiting Death Valley National Park last week. It has great views of the Sierras but I had to eat in my car in the back lot. I had the Tri-Tip Sandwich($10). Very delicious and layered with about 3 inches of meat. The tri-tip wasn’t quite as tender as I would expect for the best. I’d give it an 8 out of 10. Spago’s is the best eatery I’ve been to.
What’s the best restaurant you’ve dined at?
The Flying Monkey, a pizza joint in Springdale, Utah, derived its name from an Air Force test track on the top of nearby Hurricane Mesa just outside of Zion NP. In the 1950′s the U.S. Air Force constructed a 12,000 foot test track on nearby Hurricane Mesa. The track was constructed to test aircraft ejection systems using dummies.
In at least one test series the rocket sled dummy was replaced by apes to identify the g-force effects of this type of ejection on a live being. Hence the Flying Monkey name came into existence. They could have also called it the Screaming Monkey!
You can barely see in the image below a building or two at the top of Hurricane Mesa. Flying Monkey pizza is not just another pizzeria. It is wood-fired, thin crust, with aromas remindful of my days as a kid getting a slice from Alfonso’s in NJ.
Baja California is not in California, it’s in Mexico. The Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) is not in California, it’s in Mexico. But whatever it’s called, Baja Mexico is a place of much diversity, great landscapes and a vast desert environment surrounded by immense bodies of water. https://www.google.com/maps/@27.9998847,-113.5,6z
It’s about a 1,000 mile (1,609 Kilometers) drive from San Diego to the southern tip of Baja at Cabo San Lucas. I had the opportunity a few years ago to drive that stretch and to capture the essence of the land, its people and customs. The food was spicy, inexpensive and the military checkpoints were ubiquitous. The photos below are a good representation of the land in much of Baja with its endless mountain ridges and succulent desert vegetation. These photos and more are available as prints or downloadable files at http://dawn2dawnphotography.com/
And then there are the sunrises and sunsets. This was when I decided to name my website Dawn2Dawn Photography.
And when you get hungry, you head to town. They serve really good Mexican food down here!
After a great meal, it was time to reflect.
