i may have to re-think this food photography for a week. i was so hungry when i made this dish and then been wanting to have a go at it but of course i needed to take a photo, and not just take a photo like when i'm in a restaurant. i have to do it in quite an artistic way. and the light wasn't cooperating and it's not like there isn't enough light in my living room! finally, i decided enough is enough. i was having a really bad coughing fit then my boss called to ask me where some files are. ayayay!
okay, so you're wondering why it's "bastardized"? because while i had cacciatore in mind, i was rather lazy or not so inclined to make the cacciatore sauce. i just put together some leftover brown rice, broccoli, coloured peppers, added a small can of tuna in oil, some shrimp and some sea scallops; stirred in some tomato sauce, threw in some infornate olives, let simmer and voilà, seafood cacciatore, summerfield or bastardized version. shave some parmesan cheese and it makes a simple, quick sit-down lunch fare.
Didn't know that there was a cacciatore sauce! You recipe sounds good and I would like to try it except for the tuna in oil. Light is all in food photography but you don't want too much to get reflective light from the food!
I love linguini with clams in marinara, and I loved my mom's chicken cacciatore but I've never even thought of seafood cacciatore. Gonna have to experiment. I love the way the food in this shot is all crisp and detailed and stands out. Delicious.
Cacciatore means "hunter" in Italian. In cuisine, alla cacciatora refers to a meal prepared "hunter-style" with onions, herbs, usually tomatoes, often bell peppers, and sometimes wine. Cacciatore is popularly made with braised chicken or rabbit. Wikipedia
@helenhall - wow! thanks for that vote of confidence, but as it is i have too much on my hands. i did, at one time, think of writing a book of short stories incorporating the recipes of food we had during my youth, all "bastardized" because we couldn't afford the real ingredients so we had to make do improvise and/or substitute, which later on became a "tradition" with the relatives. for example, spaghetti with corned beef instead of ground beef. thank you, helen.
@pandorasecho - when i took hotel management some 20 years back (goodness that long ago already?) here in toronto in an attempt to switch career, i learned in marketing that the food we see in restaurant flyers and magazines are staged such that the number of sesame seeds on the bun of a macdonald quarterpounder are counted and strategically placed. to us consumers they don't look like that. so the shrimp and scallops you see in the photo are 'strategically posed', in fact, as i meant to shoot from above. but that didn't pan out so this was the final outcome. thank you, dixie.
Cacciatore means "hunter" in Italian. In cuisine, alla cacciatora refers to a meal prepared "hunter-style" with onions, herbs, usually tomatoes, often bell peppers, and sometimes wine. Cacciatore is popularly made with braised chicken or rabbit. Wikipedia
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