Some people believe that a professional food photographer is hanged by equipment as Christmas tree is hanged by expensive toys. Sometimes it’s true, but mostly it’s much easier. And in this article I want to dispel the myth about food photographers. And it’s about settling light during the food shooting. You'll be surprised, but in [...]
You might know all fish places, but I really doubt you are aware of all fish recipes in the world. Some recipes are very simple and easy to cook. Until someone shares them with you, you’ll never get the secrets. Yes, that’s a kind of magic. How to properly perform never-yet-seen magic out of blue [...]
My interview about Food Styling for Airport Magazine. Food Styling is full of different myths. Glue instead of mayo in burgers, or not prepared puree from broccoli, gel mass instead of ice-cream or other heroes of detail shots. I'll try to tell all the truth. What is Food Styling? Everything about food-photography, instead of work [...]
Plăcintă is a special pie with cottage cheese, pimpkin, meat, potato, apples and other kinds of filling. Plăcintă looks like a flat cake, and it’s cooked from puff pastry or yeasted dough. My grandma used to fry plăcintăs on a dry frying pan, and then brushed ready-made plăcintăs with butter. People cook like that in [...]
A head of cheese, looking like the sun, it has always amazed and charmed me. I still admire this round concentration of pure joy coloured in all shades of gold. What to say, I’m a true cheese soul. But more than just cheese, I love some kinds of cheese, skillfully combined in one dish. Do [...]
Feel hot? Steamy? Boiling and smoking? Just imagine that’s a New Year time now. Rather complicated to do so? Let me help you. I even have a present for you. So that you can easily and safely smoke food, drinks and even desserts, instead of smoking yourself under boiling sun. Only from 27 July to 4 August I’m [...]
All last week we’ve been smoking food! We’ve smoked mushrooms for amazing smoked chanterelle and porcini salad with garlic chips and thyme oil, smoked haggis and cooked potato croquettes, smoked apple-flavoured salmon. Also we’ve smoked a duck from Staffordshire. Don’t you remember? Oh, you are right, the duck was a local one☺ But the recipe [...]
Well, I’ve already shared with you a few recipes of smoked dishes from the best chefs. I do hope you’ve tried them out already. If not, then check at Food’n’Chef search by Smoking Gun tag. And now I’m about to tell you that not only ready-made dishes can be smoked, but also cheese. Mozzarella, for [...]
Have you already cooked delicious Scottish croquettes with haggis? And enjoyed its full-flavoured taste? I have to say honestly, I’ve cooked this dish twice already. The first time was to shoot the photo session, and the second time I cooked it to excite my guests by the miracle of cold-smoking process and its special flavour. And today I [...]
Grab your basket and bravely go to the forest to seek for mushrooms. Or just buy some chanterelles and porcini in the nearest supermarket. You won’t feel funny, that’s not that kind of mushrooms. Well, I have to admit, when you cook for a long time with lots of energy and money invested, and the [...]
