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Your order? :D Seafood Chowder


Your order? :D Seafood Chowder
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Copyright: Sweety De Freitas (puffy) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2046 W: 135 N: 3062] (16549)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-06-03
Categories: Daily Life, Food
Camera: Canon 400D Digital, 18-55mm, Fuji 4GB, UV Filter
Exposure: f/14.0, 1/5 seconds
Details: Tripod: Yes
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Recipe books [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2008-06-25 14:37
Viewed: 303
Favorites: 1 [view]
Points: 50
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Hi Folks...

How are you these day? We have lots of rain and strong wind over here for a while now... it is just not fun that we can't go out to take any photos. :( Never mind, really looking forward to dry day.

Here I have an entree for all of you, :D Warm and tasty, a seafood chowder. I hope you will like it, I know we love it.

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My Seafood Chowder

Ingredients:

- 4 oz Crab meat, cooked
- 8 oz Snapper Fillets
- 8 oz Tiger Prawns
- 7 oz Scallops, chopped
- 7 oz Mussels
- 1 medium Onion, minced
- 2 stalks of Celery, chopped
- 1 Tbsp Butter
- 1 1/2 tsp Thyme
- 1 big Potatoes, peeled, cooked and diced
- 1 1/4 tsp Celery Salt
- 2 cups double Cream
- 1 1/4 cups Milk
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Pepper
- Paprika and Parsley

Precook:

- Potatoes and dice
- Mussels


Preparation:

Sauté onion in the butter until transparent. Add the thyme and celery salt, then remove from heat. In another saucepan, pour the double cream over the snapper fillets. Cover and bring to a boil. Simmer slowly for 10 minutes or till the fish flakes easily. Remove the snapper, then break into small pieces and remove any bones. Add the onion mixture and the scallops to the snapper poaching liquid. Bring to barely a boil, then simmer for about 1 minute or till the scallops are opaque. Now add the snapper, crab meat, mussels, prawns, potatoes and milk. Heat through, but do not allow to boil. Season with salt and pepper.

Serve chowder in large soup bowls. Sprinkle each bowl with paprika and a small sprig of parsley in the centre. Serve seafood chowder immediately with your favourite soup crackers or bread. Enjoy!

p.s: I find that you can used whatever seafood you like, not necessary to follow the recipe, anything will do. :D As what I have done here too...

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- Adjust brightness and contrast
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- Apply USM
- Add border and resize

Again, this was taken in my kitchen's studio with natural lighting from outside the windows, you can see the pattern on my bench top. I used white hand paper towel for my "backlight" reflector and using cake foil board to be my front lighting reflector. Arrange my tripod to over 1 ft over the food and I stand on a chair to take this shot.
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Thank you all for dropping by, hope you have a wonderful day not like what I have here right now, thunder strom...:(
Emma, actagaudi, photophantom, lilimih33, shelbeesmom, patshoo, Urfaust, juyona, manujmehta, Hendrika, chrisJ, wilth, jusninasirun, boomcat has marked this note useful
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Good morning Sweety!
Ah..delicious, can I have I now! This is a perfect cooking book picture. Crisp and clear superb POV (I can see the ingredients) Well composed. Ever thought to sell your food pictures to magazines? Anyway in my opinion this is a well exposed professional food photo!
Hans

NB, I would like to taste this soup when I'm in NZ :-)

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  • Emma Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1502 W: 7 N: 1586] (8726)
  • [2008-06-25 14:43]
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Hello Sweety,
Very interesting picture with the details. Beautiful colors, mad sharpness, class picture design.

Greetings.
Eva

Hi
Superb yummy shot. Good composition, everything looks perfect like 3D. Excellent light.
Regards
actagaudi

Hello Sweety!
Perfect picture and excellent quality of the image!
Thanks for the recipe!
Best regards!
Lili

Yum yum!!! I love it!....but I can't have the bread! B-(...it doesn't like me! Really nice picture here Sweety..now I'm starving again! HAHA!
B-)
Linda

good presentation, sharp photo, fine light and exposure
regards
jo

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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3164 W: 213 N: 6672] (26358)
  • [2008-06-25 15:51]

Dave's gonna love this chowder Sweety. But not me - sorry!

Your photos looks so 'real'. Excellent shot Sweety, well displayed and it does look very tasty

Janice

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  • kaleh Silver Star Critiquer [C: 13 W: 0 N: 4] (411)
  • [2008-06-25 16:03]

Good evening...

...and Bon Apetit.

This picture is simply great. It's real art to make food pictures. It usually takes a lot of work with making composition and finally a photo. You did great work here!

Hello Sweety

Yes please that looks absolutely mouthwatering :-)

Superb light nice and sharp with tasty colours too

TFS regards Helen

hi sweety, good point of view, nice details and clarity, its 4 30 pm i havent eaten since noon, looking forward to supper now!
tfs,
scott

Hi Sweety, This is a great shot - nicely composed. And the chowder, well I might just have to try your recipe. It looks delicious.
Trudy

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  • pozaru Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3301 W: 663 N: 1895] (15853)
  • [2008-06-25 23:03]

Delicious !!!

congrats and thanks,
v

Attractive and yummy,Good overlay of food element and clean crisp sharpness,Look like high-key style,Well composition and good description.Good work,TFS.

ciao Sweety..
this kind of capture by you.. are always perfect and so greedy!! nice and so alive in its own details!! brava!
ciao Marco

Yummy....
Dennis
later Sweety..

Hi Sweety,

I absolutely know this picture is great, mouthwateringly great. Colours, textures, even the BG.
Be careful climbing those chairs when making a picture!
A big thank you for picture and note.

Els

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  • chrisJ Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4097 W: 213 N: 3582] (27029)
  • [2008-06-26 5:02]

Hi Sweety

Looks delicious. A superb food product shot. Good sharpness & aroma! Tfs!

Hi Sweety,

Excellent photo with great light and clarity. Nice simple background. It could appear in any food magazine!

I've copied your recipe as fish stews/chowders are some of my favorites.

thanks for sharing your photo and recipe, Lisa

hello Sweety
wonderful shot
nicely presented
it seems so real that i can smell its fragrance. what a sharpness and details.
lovely presentation my friend.
Thanks for recipe.
God Bless You.
regards
Manuj Mehta
:)soon

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  • wilth Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 230 W: 34 N: 334] (1245)
  • [2008-06-27 6:18]

This is gorgeous! Well constructed and with jaw dropping clarity; each of the components stands out on their own and then are arranged perfectly to make the whole.
Really great work, nicely presented and your toolkit is pretty fascinating as well.
Not to mention the wonderful recipe. ;0)
Thanks for this, it's very nice.
Wilt

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  • juyona Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 2391 W: 0 N: 771] (12762)
  • [2008-06-27 10:42]

Hola amiga,
deliciosa y lograda escena,
buenos detalles y fino pov,
saludos Sweety
pt.
Mi web site: www.victorcardoso.es.

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  • jawa Gold Star Critiquer [C: 1660 W: 0 N: 1] (10681)
  • [2008-06-28 2:05]

Hi Sweety
In dutch(smakelijk eten)
Gr Jos

Hello Sweety. You have always come up with beautiful product shot. Excellent composition with stunning sharpness and detail. My mouth waters looking at this shot as I haven't eaten anything yet today. Thanks for sharing and best regards. Jusni

i never taste chowder before.. but i love eating this bread with mushroom soup :)

i love your presentation, Sweety.. macam so sedap saja.. yum yum.. tfs..

regards, terry

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  • jone Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor [C: 1793 W: 65 N: 0] (16697)
  • [2008-06-30 0:43]

Hi Sweety dear friend ;)))
Super, super, super...Thanks,
J ;)

I can almost get through my monitor!
jan

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