a new camera ... new food photography ... new focus
It's raining on my day off and I finally decided to do a new focus on my journal here. Since my scanner died, I lost a bit of focus and decided to let other people scope the Law and I kind of enjoyed looking at him from a different point of view. So, I decided to refocus and jot down all my cooking adventures. So, here is a new leaf in my ever expanding journal that I've kept for gawd ... forever. It's funny how I look back at my entries and how they changed from vampires porn to pic porn to now food porn. Oddly the only thing that links them all is that they have each made me passionate about something. So, here goes nothing. Here I teach myself to cook. Just like I taught myself to design a website, do photoshop art, I am now focusing on teaching myself to cook. Learning techniques and just trying things that are new. And teaching myself to do photography all over again.
So, I bought myself a new camera. An Olympus PEN EP-3. And I decided to celebrate my making a cake using wonderful fresh nectarines and blueberries I got at the wet market the other day. Recipe I got was from here. And it's really good. Moist and small. Perfect for my tiny kitchen.
Ingredients:
72g butter, at room temperature
50g castor sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
72g self-raising flour
1/8 teaspoon baking powder
1 tablespoon yogurt
1/2 nectarine, cut into slices
20 blueberries
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 170C. Grease a 18cm loaf pan, and then line with baking paper.
2. In a medium bowl, whip butter and sugar with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy. Beat the egg into the batter, follow by vanilla extract. Mix until just combine.
3. Mix in yogurt, follow by flour and baking powder. Mix until the flour just disappear from the batter.
4. Scrape the batter into the pan. Arrange nectarine slices and blueberries on the batter.
5. Bake in the pre-heated oven for 40 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the center of the cake turns out clean. Remove from oven, let the cakes cool on wire rack, serve.
What else is new with me? Well ... went to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers concert in Hong Kong last night. OMG. WAS SO KICK ASS IT WAS UNREAL! Best concert I have been to in a long long time. My mind is still blown. BLOWN I TELL YOU!! BLOWN! They sang 3 songs from their new album and sang a bunch of old ones. MIND BLOWING. OMG. MINDBLOWNTOSMITHERIANS!!!
Also, my coworkers have sucked me into playing Japan Life. It's a game you can get for iPhone and Android. And it's slightly addictive. Clicking away for no apparent reason. If you play .. add me. g3c3. Sad I know.
So, I bought myself a new camera. An Olympus PEN EP-3. And I decided to celebrate my making a cake using wonderful fresh nectarines and blueberries I got at the wet market the other day. Recipe I got was from here. And it's really good. Moist and small. Perfect for my tiny kitchen.
Ingredients:
72g butter, at room temperature
50g castor sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
72g self-raising flour
1/8 teaspoon baking powder
1 tablespoon yogurt
1/2 nectarine, cut into slices
20 blueberries
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 170C. Grease a 18cm loaf pan, and then line with baking paper.
2. In a medium bowl, whip butter and sugar with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy. Beat the egg into the batter, follow by vanilla extract. Mix until just combine.
3. Mix in yogurt, follow by flour and baking powder. Mix until the flour just disappear from the batter.
4. Scrape the batter into the pan. Arrange nectarine slices and blueberries on the batter.
5. Bake in the pre-heated oven for 40 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the center of the cake turns out clean. Remove from oven, let the cakes cool on wire rack, serve.
What else is new with me? Well ... went to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers concert in Hong Kong last night. OMG. WAS SO KICK ASS IT WAS UNREAL! Best concert I have been to in a long long time. My mind is still blown. BLOWN I TELL YOU!! BLOWN! They sang 3 songs from their new album and sang a bunch of old ones. MIND BLOWING. OMG. MINDBLOWNTOSMITHERIANS!!!
Also, my coworkers have sucked me into playing Japan Life. It's a game you can get for iPhone and Android. And it's slightly addictive. Clicking away for no apparent reason. If you play .. add me. g3c3. Sad I know.