Food Porn Thread

While on weekdays I’m at home and I cook by myself, I’ll have Sunday lunch at my mum’s place. She always cooks good stuff!

Pasta with broccoli and sausage, with a bit of parmesan cheese on top. It’s as good as it looks, plus having it post workout is a pleasure!

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I have to get cashews unsalted because I won’t stop eating them and the salt ends up burning my mouth after so much of them.

Its a goofy habit of mine to go on kicks and gorge with certain things like that. Pineapple+sriracha and cashews are the worst for some reason.

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hah i’ve had the same thing happen to me with salted cashews, but I keep getting them anyway.

Can’t related to the pineapple / sriracha stuff tho.

That adds some serious flavor to it, seriously. The bottom of that thing is like a “pastry”. It’s basically a pastry + egg sandwich combination, but it goes well together IMHO. :smiley:

JERK CHICKEN after my half marathon race. Just crushed a box worth from the local farmer’s market.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfWP6ewnCyK/

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As promised, I dug up some “set up” shots demonstrating unorthodox techniques to obtain decent photos.


Salmon Filet with Red-wine sauce, toasted-garlic risotto, and veggies (sauteed cabbage, leeks, and asparagus). Cranberry and pine-nut salsa.

Roasted Beet salad with manchego and pistachios

Pandowdy with housemade creme freche.

These were setups that were improvised, and had a number of unique requirements. Most notably, they had to be unobtrusive and set up in a part of the kitchen which was both accessible (because the food needed to move from the line, to the studio, to a server’s hands in a rapid progression, to prevent the food from getting cold) and not taking-up valuable space. They also needed to be able to be broken down quickly, in case something came up that necessitated the use of the space (i.e. dishwasher needs to peel potatoes and cut more fries because we are running out.) The results were acceptable IMO, because I was doing this to provide a portfolio for myself and other chefs, illustrating our dishes and plate-ups. Photos that were intended for public distribution (adverts, postcards, websites, etc,) allowed for a more complex set-up and the production of “hero-food” (food not meant for consumption, but rather produced exclusively for the production of quality photos.)

Here are a few of my plate-ups/creations from my time at Jeffrey’s Chop House in Dr. Phillips, Florida. One of my favorite parts of this job was creating the daily Amuse-Bouche. If you aren’t familiar, the amuse-bouche (french for "mouth amuser) is a small bite, often eaten with the hands, that is presented to each diner at the table, usually right after they order. It is a preview of what’s to come; an appetizer before the appetizer; a way for the chef to have fun, hook-up a table, and utilize small amounts of leftovers.


Salmon Lox with Caviar on Toast with charred-lemon slice, aioli, and cilantro-pesto.


Tempura Sushi Lollipop-Duo; one was salmon, the other tuna. Salmon was topped with a cream-cheese and chive “easter-egg”, the tuna was drizzled with eel sauce.

A few other plate-ups/dishes I did (Remember: this was mid-2000’s… this was the style):


Pan-seared grouper over cilantro-pesto rice, with avocado, pepper salsa, asparagus, chipotle cream sauce.

Surf & Turf. Bone-in Kubota Pork Chop and Scallop Napoleon. Served with caviar, wilted greens, and grilled parsnips. Demi glace and lobster-cream sauce.

Finally: not food-porn per se, but a cool food-related/restaurant pic I took

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Chef Kyo Koo on the Wood Grill at Clarklewis, Executive Chef Dolan Lane on prep. Loved working with these guys.

I’ll dig up some more soon. Happy Sunday T-Nation!

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First time making avocado sandwiches, after seeing some delicious-looking pics on here; gonna be a staple from now on, especially as I’m having troubles eating enough fats lately. And, they taste great!

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Just curious, what does a meal like that usually cost?

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Approximately $42 in 2007 (that was usually the cost of our special)

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You’ve motivated me to step up my “artificial lighting” game, I will definitely work on that in the near future. Incredible writeup, photos, and food.

That last photo of Chef Kyo Koo is definitely food porn though, such a great shot.

You have a really slick perspective, love it.

EPIC POST.

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hah awesome! ya man, so simple yet so damn delicious. avocado spread upon toasted bread: truly a perfect combo.

peace!

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thank you.

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From yesterday:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfbtryrBkn9/?taken-by=andrewdarqui

came out ok… nothing amazing tho.

However, this came out INCREDIBLE.

Fried egg, atop toasted sourdough rye, with sauteed (baby portabello) mushrooms, everything in “spanish olive oil” and pink salt/black pepper.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfdmsuintKm/?taken-by=andrewdarqui
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BfdnIS_n2Mg/?taken-by=andrewdarqui
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BfdnAlhnfrq/?taken-by=andrewdarqui

Came out perfect. Still salivating over it.

peace!

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@adarqui the fried egg one looks fantastic and I need to try it!

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Thanks so much!! yea it came out incredible.

I sauteed the mushrooms first, which gave me some extra flavor in the Wok for the fried egg.

Then for the fried egg, I just put enough (spanish) olive oil to cover the bottom of my Wok, heat it up until it’s cracking, lowered heat a bit, dropped a pre-scrambled egg on it, cooked it for a while until I could flip it, then sliced it in half and put one portion between the bread, and one on top.

peace!!

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@adarqui amazing thank you! Do you use a Wok often? I thought about getting one…

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np! yea alot. I use it to cook pretty much everything in it → eggs, sauteed yam/veggies, rice/couscous (after I cook it in a pot) etc. I don’t use the “grill attachment” that came with it, but could probably cook some stuff decent on top of it.

peace!

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Today is my birthday. So:

Retropie Cupcakes

Napoletan Sandwiches

Lemon Cake

Chocolate Cake

Almond/Chocolate Sweets

Pan Di Stelle Cake

Yes, I told to my girlfriend, mom and aunt that they were exagerating, but… They simply didn’t listen me :joy::joy::joy::joy:

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lmao. your family knows how to celebrate. never seen that much cake/sweets for a birthday.

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