Was planning on eggs tonight for dinner. Just wasn’t thinking hard boiled.
But a vendor brought in lunch today and there was lots of salad left over, so I grabbed some of the salad and some of the vinaigrette.
Comprised of lettuce, sliced apples, goat cheese (augmented by a bit I had at home), dried cranberries, and walnuts, with my hard boiled eggs, grated carrots, radishes that I boiled and sliced, grated and sliced. Topped with the cafe’s raspberry vinaigrette. Was supposed to have cocktail tomatoes, but I forgot them.
I find your food photos always quite appetising, vivid and colourful. Is it a phone camera? Did you do post editing like changing the contrast?
@Linda, I like your food photos too . There is an intensity and nice colours.
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ChristinaM
(Hungry in Asheville, NC (still plenty to offer tourists post Hurricane))
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Thanks! I am using a Pixel 3 phone, which has a good camera. I do usually use the phone’s camera app to edit color/contrast/brightness with one of the pre-set filters.
For example, here is an original versus a slightly edited pic:
Thanks. I would say, I’m getting lousy these days. After cooking, I really want to eat… I just grab my phone. In the past, I would use my Canon with the 50mm lens.
I have decided the restaurants just don’t read any of the notes/requests on the orders which go through grubhub to get delivery (since they provide the driver, has to use app for the delivery not a phone call)
@Scubadoo97
I actually love feta.
But, feta does not love me back.
Last delivery dinner in philly for now…! Really looking forward to making my own dinners regularly, even if it’s just those simple salads and such that aren’t especially exciting. Same falafel and veggies platter as the other night, i’ll have leftovers for breakfast
3 dollar frozen pizza topped with chopped speck and shaved Romano . My favorite 7 dollar cab to drink . Headed down to ukiah tomorrow for the weekend. Tomorrow night Mendocino Brewing . Saturday visiting a plethora of wineries . Cheers .
Harters
(John Hartley - a culinary patriot, cooking and eating in northwest England)
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The father in law didnt make it through the night. His breathing got slower and slower and finally stopped just after midnight. All very peaceful.
I suppose it’s easy to remember how he’d become - a very frail old man, with no mobility, lung cancer and failing kidneys. But I also remember what he was. First a friend before he became a father in law. I knew him through a group we were both members of and, if I hadnt given him a lift home one night, I’d never have got to meet his eldest daughter. I took one look at her and thought PHWOAR - and I still do.
And this was a man who served his country as a soldier for nearly 20 years. He gave up his career so that the future Mrs H wouldnt have to have the upset of attending an army boarding school in Germany. A man who served his co-workers as convenor of his trade union branch. A man who served his community by his political activism and as a governor of a local school. Not a bad life, all things considered.
LEEMING GRIFFITHS
1930 - 2019
RIP
(It’ll be a busy day. Dinner will be delivery of some form)
My sincere condolences. Sorry for your loss, indeed a very considerate and brave man, your FIL. That’s a wonderful summary you have written, John. Take care, Mrs. H and yourself.
A food setting on your phone camera? Very interesting!
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Presunto
(--> Back in Athens - Goat's/Sheep's Yoghurt every day ... [Fleeced Taxpayer :@)) :@)) ])
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Very thoughtful sentiments, Harters. I’m sorry to hear this sad news. Even though I don’t know your FIL I still have the need to say “thank you for your service!”. Much respect for one who serves their country.
Food is probably the last thing on your mind today but do try to eat something (tasty).
We also love our Emile Henry pizza stone. It’s useful for multiple things, even for roasting fresh asparagus in the oven.
Probably I am not supposed to do this, but I even use the EH pizza stone outside on top of the grates of our gas grill in the summer as a surface for roasting vegetables. I baked a blueberry crostata (tart) on it one time when the weather was too hot to think of baking in the kitchen.
Though in frosty winter days I’m staying inside and using that trusty stone for, uh, pizza.
Edited to add: I’m also making “cheater” zaatar bread by brushing prepared pita bread with olive oil then sprinkling on as much zaatar as will stick to cover the bread.
Condolences to you and your family. And thank you for sharing the story of your father-in-law’s life with us.
May his memory be cherished.
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Harters
(John Hartley - a culinary patriot, cooking and eating in northwest England)
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I often do this with khobez bread (the round, very thin MIddle Eastern bread). 30 seconds (max) in a hot oven crisps it up nicely.
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meatn3
(equal opportunity eater in the NC Triangle)
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My sympathies to Mrs. H and you, family and friends. Your FIL sounds like a man who lived his life honorably. Thank you for sharing some of his life with us.
It is always inspiring to hear of stories where one decision changed a person’s life in such a wonderful way. If you hadn’t brought him home that night…
You are both fortunate - may you have many more happy, healthy years together.
