Since many of you are probably still recovering from the 3-day 4th of July weekend, I thought I'd do something light and fun today. Here are some random food shots I've taken at various places like out eating at a restaurant, at a cafe, at Whole Foods, or at a birthday party.
I take my Nikon D50 with me everywhere, and I just love to take pictures of food and what I eat. Man I love food blogging!
One of my favorite blogging cafes is La Tartine in Redwood City because they have free WIFI and the most amazing desserts. I just love the look of this individual carrot cake. This cafe also serves wine so you'll find me there on a Friday having a glass of Pinot Noir and blogging.
For the life of me, I can't remember where I ate this salad, but I do remember that it was really delicious. On top is a slightly pickled cabbage, and there was arugula in the garden mix. I do that in my own salads I make at home, mix arugula with the Whole Foods garden mix.
To me, restaurants that go the extra mile and serve you some kind of dip with your bread basket are a rave. This garlic, herb, and olive oil dip is from Cafe Pro Bono in Palo Alto, which friend and published author Camy Tang turned me on to. Camy writes the best Christian chick lit.
This was my birthday cake back in April. Fortunately, I did a joint celebration with my mom and sister-in-law Casey who blogs about my triplet nieces: Alyssa, Riley, and Makena. The girls are so precious and as you can imagine they prefer to wear the cake than eat it.
This is Calamansi which is not widely used in the US but is used in everyday cooking in the Philippines. Calamansi is like an orangey lemon, and I like it because of that unique twist. The calamansi in this shot are about the size of gumballs and we sprinkled some on top of pancit, the Filipino version of chow mein. If you ever have a chance to try iced Calamansi-ade, do partake!
One of my favorite appetizers are crunchy rolls. These are Traditional Spring Rolls from the Three Seasons restaurant in Palo Alto, and they were dee-lish.
Have you ever seen purple herbs? I haven't, so when I was at Whole Foods a couple months ago and saw this purple herb plant I just had to take a snapshot. Cool huh!
