12 weeks…1/3 of the way there!
The Inspired Plate – Food on Black – Monthly Food Photography Challenge
I came across a Halloween dessert online and thought it would be perfect to pop the orange on a black background! So alas here are my Halloween cupcakes. I also have a confession to make…this was my first time EVER using a frosting bag with a tip. I’m not a huge baker, I prefer to make entree’s because I’m not huge into sweets but my husband is and he is forever grateful 
Now please go check out Tammy Bilodeau, Whitecourt AB photographer http://tbilodeauphotography.com/blog/food-photography/black/
The Inspired Plate monthly food challenge-Textures
This month brings a challenge for sure…TEXTURES! I bought a couple texture packs from Jessica Drossin a couple years back so these came in very handy for this month’s challenge. While I don’t use them for my client portraits, I do like to play around with them for personal use. This month I chose something simple and something I didn’t have to cook. I drove to Panera Bread and bought some Broccoli Cheddar soup in a bread bowl along with their Frontega sandwich…viola! The sandwich was NOT put together very well, in fact I couldn’t tell if it was put together at all when I got home. It looked like 4 pieces of bread were thrown into a box with chopped chicken, tomato, etc…you get my drift (not photo worthy unfortunately). I envisioned warm tones, hearty soup and texture. Here is what I came up with as my final submission.
Now go check out Allison Jacobs, Orange County Photographer
The Inspired Plate – Summer Dessert
Wow this month’s challenge was so much fun to make and shoot. Although I had a few different ideas, I chose to go with something that I’ve been wanting to try out; Frozen Yogurt! Because I bailed on last month’s challenge am an over achiever I decided to shoot a couple different frozen desserts…one easy peasy and one a little more challenging.
Peach Frozen Yogurt
Ok so these chocolate covered Bananas were supposed to be the easy dessert BUT trying to get the chocolate neatly on the frozen bananas and lollipop sticks were tricky!!! I should have used popsicle sticks but I improvised with what I had on hand. They are delicious though and licking chocolate off my hands was worth it
Now please go check out Kay Pickens | Columbia MO Food Photographer
http://kaypickens.com/cinnamon-peach-frozen-yogurt/ post and continue on to all the other wonderful food photographers in our circle of friends 
Lemon & Garlic Roasted Chicken
The Inspired Plate – Seafood two ways.
This month’s challenge was Seafood two ways; raw and cooked. Well this is a perfect challenge when you live in a coastal state and I had an idea immediately to work with Scallops. Then I saw their price tag: $14.99/lb! Now here me out, I would normally pay that if 1. I wasn’t cooking to feed a grown man who loves his seafood and my teenage godson and 2. this other idea didn’t come to mind when I came across Maine Mussels for only ONE DOLLAR PER POUND. I came up with a combination of a white wine, lemon and garlic dish. I added some tomatoes and parsley and it all came together so well!
The raw seafood I chose was a nice New England Lobster roll grilled on a buttered roll ( Mussels just aren’t that photogenic when they’re closed). Yes the Lobster is technically not raw because it’s cooked and then chilled but I’m sure the talented food photographers in our group will let this slide Please follow along and check out Tiffany Dahle http://www.peanutblossom.com/develop/2012/06/quick-and-spicy-shrimp.html
Farm Fresh
Our local farm’s CSA started and I’m just loving all these organically fresh vegetables and fruit that are filling my kitchen (and belly )!
Mexican Vegitarian Casserole
This dish was very simple to make and really only consisted of layers of goodness; quartered tortilla wraps, black beans, roasted red pepper, cheese, cumin, more cheese, corn and green enchilada sauce. I think we’ll be taking a break with the Mexican dishes as of late we’re getting pretty tired of the tortilla wraps. If you have some Mexican recipes to suggest that don’t require these I would love to hear them!
Greek Quesadillas
Ok so technically this does not fall into Mexican…as far as I’m concerned This was sooo good! A great alternative for a meatless dinner with fresh veggies. I must admit, I forgot the black olives. I love olives too, my husband didn’t mind though since he hates them! I’m known to forget an ingredient every time I make something and since we live across the street from a supermarket you would think that it would be easy to just pop over and pick up what I forgot but as I was already there TWICE today I said screw it. This dish was still amazing without the olives but I will make it again complete with every ingredient
enjoy!
Here’s the recipe:
Ingredients
2 roasted vine ripe tomatoes
2 cups chopped baby spinach
1/3 chopped red onion
1 cup of shredded mozzarella cheese
1/3 cup feta cheese
1 small can of sliced black olives
olive oil
dried oregano
roasted red pepper
10″ whole wheat tortillas
Directions
Lightly brush one side of tortilla
turn tortilla over and place chopped spinach, red onion, roasted red pepper and roasted tomato and top with shredded cheese, feta and sprinkle oregano. Fold in half and place in frying pan on medium heat. cook until side has browned and turn over until cheese is melted (only a couple minutes each side should be enough). Viola!
I found this recipe here.
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