Ofcourse having watched Remco at work the week before it was a great opportunity to try out some newly learned tricks when Ollie came for the second time to the studio last week. The idea was to make something with “stacking” which is a pretty broad area anyway, but I kind of left it to his skills to make something nice and he certainly did!
We did two dishes; the above one is my favorite of the day. It’s zeekraal (I’m sorry but I have no idea how to translate that into english) and rice with seaspaghetti and smoked monkfish on top. The tiny bit of orange in the middle is caviar.
I used one bowens gemini 500 from the left shooting through tracing paper and fill in on the right with foamboard. I used a small mirror to light the caviar in the middle as that would otherwise be too dark.
The first dish we did was spaghetti with bloodsausage.
Can you still remember when we used to get that on a regular basis at home? Red cabbage with apple and bloodsausage? I never used to realize that it was actually made from real blood…. anyway, we had the same thing for lunch and it was really tasty. I know I still find it a bit… well, weird that I am eating blood… kind of vampiric I guess..:) but nevertheless it tasted good with the red onion on top. Delicious!!
We had a great day and I think some good photos that came out of it, so I am quite happy. It’s funny how I had more photos of the setup then of the actual dish.
While Ollie was preparing the food I was busy trying out various lighting things and styling, only to end up with a minimal amount of styling. I am just not too good in styling the table and I like the focus to be on the food, so closeup works best for me anyway.
Happy with the results!
I’ve been so busy lately with other stuff that I haven’t had much time to do any proper cooking myself, so I hope that one of these weeks I will get to try some new recipes. Lots of exciting new cookbooks to try!
