Whole Grain Cupcakes

...And, to continue on the making the best outta my -tiny- mistake with the flours, we bring to you: Whole grain cupcakes!! Oh yes, this is a -quite surprisingly- really good one, especially when freshly baked.

Plus, the purple cupcake liners give it a nice touch. You can make them simple (just whole grain) or you can add different little hints of flavor such as bacon, ham, pretty much anything you like really. And you can put a cream cheese icing/topping and, in this case, we added a bit of Chipotle sauce to make it all more interesting. If you try them, you're gonna love them!!

Whole grain cupcakes with cream cheese topping and chipotle sauce

Whole Grain Pizza

As many of you know, the Chef at the house is my sister Gisela, well, a few days back I went to the supermarket and she asked me to bring some flour, she even gave me a specific brand! Which I brought...except I didn't realize I was actually buying WHEAT flour! lol She didn't realize it either up until she was about to bake hehe. However, she decided to make the best out of it and not to waste that wheat flour, what did she make of it? Whole Grain Pizza!!

Shrimp Whole Grain Pizza

We had several different ingredients at home so she made a variety pizza.

Shrimp. Egg. Shrimp (again). Ham.

Ready for the oven!

We used avocado to top the Shrimp Pizza.

Hot from the oven.

And, ready to eat!

Celery Canoes filled with Tuna Salad

More and more people are doing their best trying to eat healthy these days, however, that's not always so simple or even worse, not so good and/tasty...or so many people think! Here's an idea of something that would make a good mid-day snack or an entree, or even a nice breakfast: Celery canoes filled with Tuna salad.

As always, you can use a bit of dressing to make it more interesting and tasty.

Penne Carbonara and Ham & Cheese Empanadas

Easy to make and delicious to share! You can have them by themselves with a side of any kind of sauce or perhaps even a nice dressing, like this Green Pepper Mustard on the first photo, which has a nice texture and the taste is amazing!

Ham & Cheese Empanadas with Green Pepper Mustard

Penne Carbonara with Bay Leaves

Feel free to try any interesting sauce/dressing you may already have at home

You can add Parmesan cheese to the pasta

You can also try them together

Food Porn

Lately, I'm pretty positive you've heard/seen the Food Porn concept around quite a bit and you were probably a bit confused about it...at least the first time, right? Well, it is actually a concept that I like and find quite accurate as it makes reference to a glamorized, spectacular visual presentation of food, either for advertisements, cooking shows, or any visual media; that including: magazines, books, websites, blogs and so on.

The term has been used for over 10 years now but it had never before been as hot as these day when everyone seems to love, not only eating, but cooking. Nowadays, the Lifestyle TV Networks are swamped with all kinds of Cooking shows as well as with TV presenters that are on your screen with the sole purpose of eating and make you drool over most of the things they get to try. Well, thanks to those shows, getting visuals of Food has become almost a necessity! 

Now a days people doesn't care just about Food tasting good, but now it also has to look good, you know, it's the whole "Love at first sight" thing all over again, except, with Food. Now people is eager to have good-looking Food so they can immediately show the World (through Social Media) what they're having is hot!

Personally, I like to think I create Food Porn Photography material whenever I'm shooting Food as I put all my effort in making the shot in a way that I know or feel will make people, if not drool over it, at least feel hungry...even if they just ate, you know? Whenever someone comes up to me and goes like "OMG, your photo just made me hungry", I feel really flattered, like I've accomplished my purpose and, at the same time, it makes me wanna keep on shooting more and more Food.

If you still don't quite grasp the Food Porn concept, here's a website that will make it all clear for you: http://www.foodporn.net It's a site containing photos of all kinds of Food and it all looks simply delicious (it's real Food Porn!); all the material is submitted by different people and when you click on an image, you get the details regarding the user and the actual source of the image, and you can also rate it and comment on it. All in all, a GREAT Food Porn Database!

Here are some examples of my Food Porn, enjoy!