A stupid idea but when I have ever rejected ideas based on their stupidity!
On Thursday I finished work for the Christmas Break and won't return until 6 January, a delightfully surprisingly long break. It's ages since I've been on a 'Day Out' and basically have no current photos left to edit - although still a long backlog of 2013 Days Out to blog (as well as Cornwall 2013).
I thought, why don't I take photos of all the food that I eat, and then blog them? Indeed, the idea probably began its germination on Sunday when we had grey mullet with soused vegetables for our main Sunday dinner - adapted from a recipe in Nathan Outlaw's British Seafood
I do realise that blogging my food could make me open to criticism. So, here are the answers up front:
Nutrition:
It's Christmas, a festival based upon the millenia-old tradition of eating and drinking way too much to get through the long evenings around the Solstice.
I won't photograph every piece of fruit - or nut, chocolate, biscuit - I eat as a snack. I might include a photo of a groaning fruit bowl. Might.
Crockery:
Nearly twenty years ago I bought a cheapish dinner service, from Argos I think. Over the years all but one of the dinner plates have broken but most of the side plates and bowls are still okay, and some of the cutlery is serviceable. Therefore, these tend to sit in the drying rack and be used on a day-to-day basis, even though they're cheap and dated.
Recently the last but one dinner plate broke so ordinary dinners are served on a pair of plates obtained from Whittards about 5 years ago (with matching pasta bowls). I like them as a design but they're fairly hideous for presenting food on. It won't matter if they get broken over time.
Last year I bought a better quality dinner service from John Lewis. Plain white with a simple blue trim. If they get broken, they can be replaced with something almost if not perfectly identical. These are not 'best china' or 'posh dinner plates' but rarely get used for fear of breaking them. If nothing else, this exercise has hardened my resolve that these become more of an everyday set.
Completeness:
I won't just omit every piece of fruit, nut, chocloate or biscuit. I see little point in duplicating pictures of repeating meals - breakfast springs readily to mind.
And this is just for my fun. I like taking photos, I like editing photos, and this blog was started almost 12 years ago solely as an outlet in which to express myself.
Nor will I comment - positively or negatively on every piece of food I phlog. But this cod and chips was a bit disappointing. The second time recently we've got cod from small independent shops and it's been tasteless or watery.
This plum was nice, although I think the rest will taste better today or tomorrow.
Also, don't believe everything you read on the internet. I don't tell lies but sometimes change names, dates and places, just because.
