Wednesday, 26 June 2013

INSPIRING DAY


Had a killer meeting with Catherine losing today. We have a shoot coming up and as always we got talking some crazy ideas.... toned it down ramped it back up again and came up with something that will be visually stunning....
My only clue.... BAKED!

INSPIRATION

Also saw the cover of 125 and saw Ryan Hopkinsons work... AMAZING.
look at this



Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Loving the dehydrator....


I recently got a dehydrator, so far I have had lots of little playing sessions.

Some delicious results and some really interesting textures.

Here are a couple of recipes for you to look at:

Raspberry and peach clouds


200 g raspberry and peach puree
100g caster sugar
50 g icing sugar
1 tsp of Albumin powder (sosa)

Mix the caster sugar and the albumin with the puree and whisk in a kitchen aid.
This mixture should come up like a meringue after about 5 top 8 minutes
Slowly add the icing sugar.
Pour the mixture out and either pipe rosettes or smooth the mixture out to 8 mm sheets.
Dry out in the dehydrator for 12 hrs at 57c


Almond and olive oil crackers


3/4 cup ground almonds
1/4 cup doves gluten free plain flour
1/8 cup olive oil
1/8 cup honey
1 tsp pomegranite molasses
1 tsp icing sugar

mix the ingredients in a bowl by hand until you get a rich smooth paste.
Roll this out between two sheets of parchment, removing the top one once you have an even thickness
dehydrate for 12 hrs at 63 c


Coconut and treacle wafers


1 cup desiccated coconut
1/8 cup water
1/8 cup treacle
1 tbs olive oil
1 tbs raisins
2 tbs pistacchios

Heat the water and rehydrate the raisins.
Once the raisins are soft then finely chop them.
Grind the pistachios in a pestle and mortar.
Now mix all the ingredients together until you get a thick rich paste.
Roll this out between two sheets of parchment, removing the top one once you have an even thickness
dehydrate for 12 hrs at 63 c




Saturday, 22 June 2013

The Gourmand

So this monster is finally out, title the Serpent that ate it's own tail!!
http://thegourmand.co.uk/features/show/74/the-serpent-that-ate-its-own-tail#.UcVEZzkTDXA

Feed back so far has been brilliant, the story has been featured in 'It's nice that '
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/catherine-losing

and also in Co. Design
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672764/bizarre-still-lifes-of-food-rigged-like-explosives#1

here are a couple of pictures of the shoot.... So much FUN