my boyfriend cooks for me: close-up on tomatoes

Monday, January 25, 2010

close-up on tomatoes

Sometimes it happens: our meal is incredibly tasty, but not photogenic. Let me assure you this all tasted wonderful!

Pork chops baked with garlic, red onions, thyme, olive oil, white wine and chicken stock

Scalloped potato gratin with cheddar cheese and thyme (needless to say this cheesy goodness stole the show)

Tomato salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar

To compensate for the lackluster photo of dinner, allow me to present...TOMATOES!

The tomato salad made it on the plate tonight because I was oddly craving tomatoes (or maybe this isn't odd, since I spent all day Saturday taking pictures of them!) and insisted that we find a way to work them into our meal. Again here's a chance for my mom to laugh, since I refused to eat tomatoes - or lettuce that had been tainted by tomato-juice - until a little over a two years ago. What was I thinking?!?!

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MommyJanuary 26, 2010 at 9:17 AM
I guess this means I no longer have to avoid tomato pulp contaminating lettuce by using cherry tomatoes in our salads when you come home...I shouldn't make fun of you on this one..I didn't like tomatoes as a kid.
Great pic.
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My boyfriend loves to cook and is very creative in the kitchen. Although the internet is often consulted, he doesn't use recipes. He does most (ok, just about all) of the "heavy lifting" documented here. He also happens to be an amazing artist - which may contribute to his excellent food plating and presentation - so check out his art store on Etsy (and see some samples at the bottom of the page).

I perform important tasks (mainly peeling and chopping onions) and provide ideas gleaned from hours of reading food blogs, recipes and menus online, as well as gentle suggestions (i.e. "Isn't the [ingredient] going to go bad soon? Maybe we should use [ingredient] tonight..."). I am also Head Photographer and Blogmaster.

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In an article in the New York Times Michael Pollan said that we spend more time watching "sport" cooking shows than we do actually cooking. And he said this like it is a bad thing. We hope that this blog proves that these shows, while not explicitly instructive, can be a wonderful inspiration.

Of course no one has the time or resources to cook like an Iron Chef all the time. Sometimes we decide to be adventurous and try more elaborate dishes, but generally we want to show that it isn't difficult to put together interesting, creative, and healthy meals any night of the week. We don't make a weekly plan, we don't decide what to make and then go get ingredients. We buy random fun and interesting things that catch our eye at the grocery store, and then figure out how we can use them.

So don't look here for recipes (for the most part the description of what we ate is all there is to it - "mashed turnip with horseradish" is mashed turnip with horseradish!), look here for everyday ideas and inspiration.

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Monday, January 25, 2010

close-up on tomatoes

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