Lemon Chicken with Fine Herbs

And continuing with the Food Photography topic we´ve been on lately, today I bring to you photographs of something really delicious and, actually, quite simple to prepare: Lemon Chicken with Fine Herbs.

As usual, you may find the recipe on cooking websites or over at Gichef's Blog; but here, you can check out the photographs I shot, both, before the chicken was cooked and after.

Personally, I believe the Fine Herbs give the Lemon Chicken dish a whole new look and, even, kind of a fine look. You can easily cook this to entertain at diner parties and appear as an amazing cook and host.

Christmas Cupcakes

This year, my sister has been baking a lot as we are spending most of our time home and well, you gotta kill the boredom somehow, right? One of the things she has baked more often are cupcakes, with many different recipes, hence, many, many variants of them in both, flavor and looks.

 

For this season, she decided to bake some cupcakes for her friends as Christmas presents; needless to say, they were quite popular, and delicious of course, but also, very pretty looking. This time, chocolate was the cake flavor for all of them and, as for the frosting goes, for some of them, she tried some simple icing; some butter and some chocolate. For some others, she tried with some fondant, which was cool because she was able to add some writing and little drawings in some of them in order to personalize them and make them an even nicer present.

                  

 

One of the coolest things about cupcakes, is that you can get a thousand combinations to play around with the cake flavor and the frosting/icing/topping, so you can get many original variations for each special occasion or just for fun.

 

 

 

 

 


In the end, all of the effort was worth it and the cupcakes ended up looking (and tasting!) amazing! If you wanna get some cupcakes, Gichef is up for catering for your party, special occasion, or simple guiltless gluttony, so feel free to contact her! And if you actually bake your own and want to get some Professional Photographs of them, contact me!

 

French Macarons: Attempt 1

Once you have tried French Macarons (the Parisian ones, the real deal) is kind of hard not to be obsessed about them, especially if you're into French Patisserie. My personal favorites, although probably not as worldly famous as the Pierre Hermé ones, are the ones from Huré, which slogan is "Createur de Plaisir"...and OMG, aren't they real pleasure creators! But well, we're only focusing on Macarons today.

So, me and my sister are totally obsessed about them, so much we decided to try to make our own coz, you know, you cannot be traveling to Paris everytime you feel like having macarons!

We  went through a ton of recipes and watched many, many videos, after which, we almost felt like it was too easy to make them...wrong! It seems way easier than it really is, however, for our first attempt, I don't think it was THAT bad...I mean, it could have been worse.

Here is the visual documentation of our attempt. I don't put up the recipe here because you can easily find it online or you can always go to Gichef's Blog to find it.

Stay tuned for our future attempts which, hopefully, will turn out (almost) like the real deal!

Le Marche au Paris

While in Paris, one of the most wonderful things to do is to go shopping, of course, although this time, I am talking about a different kind of shopping, I'm talking about shopping at the local street markets more commonly known as Les Marches.

The feeling of shopping at a Marche can't compare to the feeling of shopping at the super market -which is pretty much non-existent. Parisian Marches is what people in the US know as "Farmer's Markets". Not only you're buying fresh products but you're getting really good quality which, usually, come with a good price as well. Let's say if you were a Chef or had a restaurant, this would be the place to buy the good stuff.

Just like a super market, at a Marche you can find everything you need going from fresh fruits and vegetables, to meat, chicken and fish, including some really good cheese, wine, spices, flowers and whatnot.

Marches in Paris are normally set up one or two days a week and there are a couple in each neighborhood, so you can be sure to catch yours once or twice a week and get supplies for the whole week.

On Sundays (or weekends) a good option to buy is roast chicken, as it quite fresh and tasty, so not the same and baking it in the oven yourself -I totally recommend it!

Not only will you get a good shopping done, but you can also enjoy the nice and unique things of a French Market, such as live music right in the middle of it -always nice to put you in a good mood while getting the "super" done.

One of the most interesting things you can find there, is a wide variety of spices and seeds and stuff like that. Very handy if you like to mix it up in the kitchen!

And well, my absolute favorite part about all this is, of course, the cheese! OMG, the variety and prices you can get for some really good, fresh, tasty cheese! J'adore! You can get cheese to make many different dishes, to go with some other or simply to enjoy it after a meal with some wine and a baguette, just like any Parisian would. Oh, and you can also find some nice wines for a very good deal, so watch out for it and be ready to spend some money and spend it good!

Photos taken at: Marche Reunión, Paris,