Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Negroamaro Wine Festival 2015

I already wrote about Negroamaro Wine Festival before. It's big cultural and enogastronomic event, where local producers can exposure their wine, oil, beer and other products. You can taste a lot of things from not only from Puglia Region, but from all Italy, since this event became bigger every year. This year there were about 300.000 people visited Festival during 5 days. About 200 producers presented their products and the festival occupied all historic center of Brindisi. Every evening there were 3 concerts with free entrance and many small bands sounded on the small squares of the center.
If you want you can just walk but you should buy the Ticket to taste delicious food and wine. There are two types of ticket - drinks and foods or only drinks. Also you receive a wine glass with special small bag-pocket to hang on the neck and put the glass inside so you have your hands free to eat)).
This May I participated a photography course with famous Italian photographer Cosmo Laera. Our a final task of the course was really important - we became a official photographers of Negroamaro wine Festival 2015. As we were 12, Cosmo divided us in 4 groups with different tasks - portraits, food, concerts and exhibitors booths. I was assigned to the Food group because of my previous experience on food photography.
He explained me some new technics of street food photography and here you can have a look at the result. Hope you like it and with to visit Negroamaro Wine Festival next year )) So we can meet)


 





Caramellized ham made by one local producer from the North Italy

 Dried meat and salami

Local fresh pasta. The grey color is because it's made from grano arso flour. Traditionally this flour was made from the bits of wheat that were left in the field after the harvest. The landowners would harvest the wheat and then burn off the stubbles that were left in the field, to be plowed under. But in that short period post-burning and pre-plowing, poor farm workers would hurry across the field, gathering the burnt remnants of wheat, which they would then grind into what was basically burnt flour.

Fast forward a few decades (or centuries) and no one is running out to the burnt fields anymore to augment their near-starvation serf diet. So what’s a chef to do? A few flour mills have been producing a newer version of farina grano arso, a type of toasted grano duro (duram wheat) flour that reproduces the nutty, smoky flavor of the original. Without the back breaking, stubble picking of course.

Orecchiette, which means ears, is local traditional whole wheat pasta. Traditionally cooked with cherry tomatoes and fresh cheese caccioricotta



Puddica - local type of focaccia with tomatoes, olives and acciughe

Focaccia with tomatoes and zicchini

 Some vegetable pate

Schiuma di mare - Sea foam, very small fish, that you can eat raw of marinated, fryed...

Tarallini are a type of baked South Italian snack that is similar to a pretzel or a circular biscuit, mostly savory, but can be sweet.


 So cute cheese)

 Calabrian hot spicy meat pate - nduja

 Taste the oil with local whole wheat bred - yummy!

 Sausiges and other meat delicious things
Turchineddi

 Different vegetables you can eat with meat.

There were restorant that made show cooking with enormours pan
Of course for my work I merited some glasses of wine and a plate of tasty spaghetti))



Of course there should be sweets!
Traditional sicilian sweets with sweet ricotta - cannoli

traditional Lecce sweets - pasticciotti

Street band
Traditional Salento dance - Pizzica

Top view of the central square

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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Pasta as a protagonist...

Again food photographies))
This time I was inspired by pasta, hope you like them))






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Friday, June 6, 2014

Food photography

My first foof photographies, hope they are not so bad))
I often make smoothies at home so I used them to make some photos.

Cabbage
 


  Carrots 



Celery

Radish 



 Paprika

Strawberries


Red beets 

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Monday, September 5, 2011

Barley with smoked bacon

Many people did not have a very positive impression about pearl barley during his/ hers childhood. However, I know a way to make it taste great! 
I found this reciepe on one packing of barley and tasted it. It was so good that also my husband cleaned the plate with bread! So before wrinkle your nose, try to cook this reciepe. It's easy to prepare and does not require many ingridients.
You will need: 
1 cup of pearl barley
3 cups of water
2 lbs of tomatoes, chopped or 1 can (28 oz) of diced unsalted tomatoes
1/2 lbs of salted smoked bacon, diced
1 large onion, chopped
olive oil
Wash the pearl barley several times. Leave it soaking in the water for at least 4 to 5 hours. Bring it to a boil, then reduce the heat to low. Cover and continue cooking until the barley is tender and liquid is almost absorbed or use a colander to drain barley (reserve some cooking liquid). 
Heat the olive oil in a deep skillet and sauté the onions over medium-high heat until golden in color. Add the bacon and cook for about 5 more minutes, stirring occasionally. 
Add the tomatoes and simmer all together on a low setting.
Stir in the cooked barley and reserved liquid. Continue to cook over low heat until heated thoroughly.
Add some salt if needed. I is not use any salt in because the bacon is salty already. But if you feel you need to add some, feel free. 

Enjoy!
 

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