Well, this was really hard to photograph, so if you like it, I'm very appreciative.
1. I was going to make a Tofu Palak Paneer instead, but ran out of time.
2. I had a recipe printed out for Aloo Gobi which usually incorporates potatoes and cauliflower, but I knew I would make some additions (like peas, Matar).
3. The recipe I had printed out failed to mention needing ginger/garlic paste in the ingredients, so I just winged it with what I've seen in almost all my curry recipes (1T garlic/ginger paste mixture).
4. The light was not there.
5. My tripod wasn't set to a high enough setting to get a shot that would be more inclusive of the AMAZING gravy of this dish.
6. I was hungry.
6 won! haha.
The dish is vegetarian (in case all my 365 friends think all I cook is meat as evidenced by my posts), and it would have been vegan had I added soy milk to the dish to make the "cream" but on my diet, soy milk has more points than fat free Greek yogurt.
I am getting much more adept at recipes with Indian spices (from scratch), and this was amazingly delicious if I say so myself. But doing a food shot every day is harder than I thought it would be.
@grammyn thanks! It is the background you think it is! I had to use the light from the cooking hood! But tye cooktop was taller than my tripod settings--set for table height. :)
Yep looks good. By chance I actually did make a vegan tofu curry yesterday. It was pretty nice but loaded with coconut milk so not so good from a dieting perspective.
@fueast Coconut milk is so good! I do find soy milk makes things creamy enough for me. And if I use coconut milk, a little goes a long way as far as flavor goes!
@darylo I think it’s a very effective composition with that pan in the background. It tells the story of being cooked in the kitchen. So many food shots just show the food completed but this adds so much more to the total photo
@darylo the light is good because, after all, the bowl of food is the star not the pan in the background. There is just enough light to see it but not to give it more importance than the bowl
February 14th, 2021
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