What on earth is in that soup??

I haven’t had a lot of time to shoot our dinner this week, so instead I thought I share a fun photoshoot with you that is – sort of – food related. I do a lot of stockphotography so I had this idea in my head to shoot in a nice kitchen with a lovely young couple. The couple are people who have modelled for me before and whom I met through my previous job (sort of in my other life, long time ago..lol) and we were lucky enough to be able to use the cooking space of cookingstudio K-O-K-S in Amsterdam. One of the guys that runs the place is a kitchenarchitect so the kitchen they have in their store are mostly fully operational as they also do workshops. Yes, it’s the same cookingstudio we go to with Kort Lontje!

Anyway, the idea was to have them cook something for real and take photos in the process. We had a lot of fun during the shoot and we basically threw all the leftovers from the vegetables we cut and the fish that was filleted (is that the right word??) into one large pan, which is what the girl is holding up on the first photo above.

While the photos kind of look like a proper kitchen you would not believe the re-arranging that had to be done to turn a store into an actual kitchen area. All the real cooking is normally done in the back, but this kitchen is in the front of the store, so when you look through the window this is what you see. I had bought loads of fresh veggies, fish and clams (which I ended up eating for dinner that same day, except the clams which I gave to the Albert and Pieter, who own the store) but it does look like a real kitchen does it not?

I think the series turned out rather well, despite some of the things that went wrong and Wouter even managed to make some sort of edible dish out of all the cutting and breaking of eggs that he did (we had to break four eggs, before I had the photo correctly… )

Anyway, just so you know that I have not disappeared from the face of the earth, but that I am still alive and kicking..

Will post some lovely recipes soon I hope.

Doesn't look all that bad, now does it??

This week on monday we had someone come over to do our garden as that was a total mess and this guy does it in his spare time. It was pouring rain on monday but he still carried on and cleaned our entire garden. I will show you a before and after picture in a minute. But since he was busy and I was kind of forced to stay home, I thought it was a good idea to clean out the kitchen and get rid of all the overdue stuff and restructure it a bit. Now that I am cooking much more then I used to I also want to have a kitchen that is up to the task. Ofcourse that involves throwing away things that we have had forever and never really use and updating things like our knifes and pots and pans.. Not all in one go though, because the good stuff tends to be expensive too!
Ofcourse the next step in that is actually getting a new kitchen but it is hard to choose and make sure that I will still like it in a couple of years. We’re in no hurry; first the holidays and the move to the new studio (still not confirmed!!!!) and after that we will be slowly starting to look at new kitchens!

And as a bonus; here is our before and aftershot of the garden!

After

Before