Food pictures post

[sff_corgi_lj]

Irrelevantly:  The fragging dogs tried to eat my butterfly pea seeds and did eat my freakin' tailor's chalk [gets very loud at dogs and very sullen in general]. No, I don't know how they reached either. Pictures of the ingrates to follow once I can get them uploaded and labelled.

Anyway.

Here are some of the pictures of the food I wreaked made/assembled/played with over the weekend. What you pretty much don't see due to careful staging and clever cropping is the subsequent mess....

Jyubako #3 + bento + onigiri, overview I had food to use up, see, so Flor got all this stuff dumped on her....	Jyubako #3, top Three-or-four-colour cauliflower/red bell pepper tsukemono (quick pickles, although the term applies for slow pickling too); two hard-boiled egg fishies - yes, the blue things - with shoyu 'carrots' and rice vinegar 'cucumbers' tucked in.	Jyubako #3, bottom Plain rice with an egg 'pumpkin' - yeah, it looks like a chrysanthemum, not my fault. Rainbow-coloured tamagoyaki (slightly sweet rolled omelet) of inexperienced-cooking loose texture; a golden apple of Japanese 7-flavour pepper, tamari fishies and Swamp Mustard piggies.	Bento and onigiri box for #3 Bento: a plain-rice version of o-sekihan (red azuki beans and rice) re-steamed with a cup of dashi. Onigiri: Hibiscus rice onigiri on top, mushed a bit to fit under the lid; raw carrots sprinkled with goma shio (sesame seeds and salt condiment), with a pink apple of balsamic vinegar and a carrot of shoyu. Hibiscus rice: In the rice cooker, combine about 2 or 3 cups of washed regular Japanese rice with roughly 2 tbsp of dried roselle hibiscus calyx, a handful of organic dried cranberries, about a 1/4-cup of POM juice, a drop or 3 of yellow food colouring to balance the tint and 1/4-tsp of salt to enhance. Steam per directions with a little extra water to compensate for the cranberries. Five-spice seasoning may be dashed in before cooking to add depth of flavour.
Tamagoyaki pan Purchased at (Cost Plus) World Market. It might be a Joyce Chen, I forgot to notice *blush*.	Tamagoyaki pan, CU A closer shot with a future victim to show proportions. It was smaller than I expected, but cooked bigger. I know, that doesn't really make sense.	Rainbow tamagoyaki In progress. Obviously I'm up to the green layer, having started with plain, then pink, by adding a drop or two of food colouring to each ladleful of egg mixture (to the right).	Finished rainbow The sliced product, after a bit of rolling and squeezing. You can see how separate the layers are, which means I =still= didn't do it right. At least it's better than last time....
	Cross-section Another view of the rainbow tamagoyaki.	Sliced rainbow The portioned tamagoyaki - I got to eat the ends.

Comments

[barsukthom.livejournal.com]

Wow.
"Very clever, Mistress Bond. Now you must die."

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

[stagey] D-die? [/stagey]

Didn't think I'd made the tamagoyaki that badly!

[barsukthom.livejournal.com]

Just Jealous.
Besides...Have you ever seen Bond battle a really cool villian? He usually loses.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Until the ginormous 'splosion at the end of the movie!

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Making me hungry, Corgi ....!

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Well, come down here and lemme feed somebody other than Flor! The sked they've stuck her with makes her hard to catch, anyway.

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Yes'm. I can think of worse reasons to visit the Gulf coastal region ....

Will there be pirates? ;]

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Ummmm... only if I either put them on the laserdisk/DVD players or we go looking for the group in the Keys....

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

DVD, please. Real, historical pirates were/are icky. Wants the swashbuckling sort, not the crazed murderer sort ... please?

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Ever seen Nate & Hayes :D

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Ah. Had to google. Never heard of it ...

(That would be a 'no'.)

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

You saw that cast, right? Oooo, you're in for a treeeeaaat... (eventually).

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

(It's not in the Caribbean at all, it's the South Pacific, but tropical oceans are tropical oceans.)

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

You are really doing these very well. Give yourself the gift of patience with your progress; it takes a lot of practice to roll tamagoyaki really well. I can't do it either, if that makes you feel any better.

For some reason, I have fixated on the precious little condiment bottles. Squee!

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

The pan was a big help. I think I'm not flipping it wet enough, but I was also having a problem with breakage at that stage. I'm not coordinated enough to do it like in this video... [digs for video] ...here.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

P.S. I too have fixated on miniature hollow plastic vegetables, although the piggies are the perfect Swamp Mustard containers. Right size, right opening, right amount.

Must get more carrots, though. Need kawaii carrots....

[aevil.livejournal.com]

I'm so jealous. They're all just so ... PRETTY.

Teach me!

(You'll get all the tamagoyaki ends, I don't eat egg :p)

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

I'm learning myself from Cooking Cute and ss_biggie and... well, random stuff! It was mylunch who suggested the rainbow effect, though. She's been doing blue food lately as a vote-for-her-blog challenge.

(The whole tamagoyaki is pretty much egg - I assume you wanna serve it to someone else then? *grin*)

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Here's another tamagoyaki video here - it's less awesome-professional-looking than the one I linked in my reply to SeleneSue.

[annechen-melo.livejournal.com]

And of course, I see this on the day I forgot my lunch. I'm out of your delivery area. :P

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, little bit, but since the route to Illinois can't be all that far off the route to Indianapolis (assuming I'll be able to afford fuel, yeep) and I can't resist the lure of the Lodge Cast Iron Outlet, we might be able to arrange ONE annual delivery, at least.

[zahdi.livejournal.com]

Woooooooow pretty food. And pretty pictures, it looks right out of a food magazine o___o. I sooooo hungry now. How did you know my favorite thing ever was bento and sweet omelets? ;_____;

- loves on your foods.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

It's kinda Kaja's fault, she just kept talking about it, right on the cusp of me being foody again.

And thanks for the compliment about the pix *blush*. I kept fussing with photo adjustments trying to keep it from looking too green from the fluorescent lights....

[h311ybean]

Wahhh! I had already decided on either Chinese or buffet for my birthday, and now you're making me crave Japanese, too!

^_^

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Wahhh! You're gonna be having a birthday party and I can't make it!

[cerrberus.livejournal.com]

Cooking's just applied chemistry, innit.
...wait for it...
but presentation's an Art!
::golf clap::
Erm...hey- also ::hug::
You are an artist!