foodie blog #10

Ive spent the entire semester looking at food on social media. Ive looked at the positives, the negatives, what makes people so famous, and what it takes to make a great food post.

I feel as if by now I know all the ins and outs of the food blogosphere and have decided to maybe try my shot at making my own food accounts. I've thought about it a lot and while restaurants are dope and the food is always so beautiful and amazing, I think I'm going to try my hand at making my own recipes at home, or combining different ones and posting about it. I want to do all natural food and pretty healthy so it has less of a negative impact on people.

So today I have my first post!

The other day I was stumbling upon Pintrest and noticed a post that said different vegetarian steaks. I'm a vegetarian so this really intrigued me! One of them was grilled watermelon and my mouth literally started watering. Now that its summer, or at least feels like it, I've been craving fresh, light, and delicious salads. So I clicked on it to see how you grilled a watermelon and the rest is history.

Here's the recipe that I came up with:
-Arugula
-2 Slices of Watermelon
-Olive Oil
-1/4 cup of chick peas
-1/2 cup of cherry tomatoes
-Goat cheese
-Balsamic vingar

Dressing:
-1/4 cup of olive oil
-a little garlic
-half a squeezed lemon
-salt and pepper to taste

-I marinated the watermelon with olive oil and pressing it in our George Forman for 7 minutes
-I laid out the arugula in at the bowl and put the chick peas and halved cherry tomatoes on top
-Then, I put the grilled watermelon on
-Next, I sprinkled goat cheese and drizzled a little balsamic
-Lastly, I drizzled some of the dressing on top

and.....
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BON APPETIT!



WOW! I even tried some of the tricks i read about for photography!

This one is definitely worth a try!

foodie post #9

Food in photos often appears far more beautiful than the food we are served at restaurants. Although it usually tastes good, we are often left wondering how it could possibly look so different. In doing research for professional food photography they have a few tricks up their sleeves.

They use blow torches to perfectly toast the breads, glue to hold the pieces together perfectly, heated soaps and cotton balls to give off smoke, and anti acid to make soda extra bubbly. These make the food look sooo irresistible that people are forced to go get it immediately!

McDonald's had such an issue with the difference between how the food looked and how their photos looked, that customers began to complain and claim they must be completely different ingredients. The company responded to this backlash by revealing all of their secrets on a youtube video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSd0keSj2W8


If the professionals use so many behind the scene hacks to make their food look hood, how do amateur foodies take such picture perfect photos in restaurants? Upon researching this, i found that there are countless articles revealing tips how to make your food look great in photos. Here are the top ones:



You too can take picture perfect photos to make your followers envious of you and create business for restaurants if you follow the steps above!

Here are some beautiful food pics!