I am going nutS!

Haah - the food blog bug has bit me really hard - its just that - it is a wonderful combination of both my hobbies - cooking and photography. Being a novice and looking all around the wonderful senior food blogs out there - I really think I have lot more to achieve and be a lot more creative. Its a satisfactory, pleasant and relaxing diversion from the regular daily work. I am so glad there are many people out there who have same interests.

To be frank, I am having a hard time keeping up with the posts - ie I am going NUTS! I aim to post every 2-3 days - which in itself is becoming a Hercules task for me - being a graduate student and everything. But will try to do my best for the blog. After I started my blog on november 14th, the daily visits were about 5-10 - but the past three days the visits have reduced to zero - and the three days have been really really gloomy for me. But not to loose heart - I decided I will try hard in the holiday season and put in more effort - lets see how well that goes.

Meanwhile during my initial search on various blogs, came across the jugalbandi.info and I fell in love this "CLICK" contest the hosts are organizing. I missed my chance to send in the photos for the previous contests - but below are the photographs I clicked "NUTS" - almonds and pistachioes - my favourites of all. I always have them at home.

So here are the pictures.I like both these pictures equally - because both of them represent what nuts stand for - hardness and tasty fat content.




What more can you expect from a grad student to have a bunch of papers, clips and staplers around. So I came up with this dumbly strange idea of stapling the nuts with it - and thats how this photograph came up. Believe me! I took more than 2 hours to get this picture right. I was photographing in the night and the lighting was not that good. I wanted a greenish haze to match pistachoes and almonds brown would be a striking contrast to the light green.



The second photograph is bit thoughtful and aesthetically appealing I think. What I really meant was - the nuts have the necessary essential oils in them that are good for the body - they need not be dipped in extra oil and for excess fat content- though it enhances their flavor. Many that I showed the photographs to, like the first one better because it makes some sense and shows that nuts are hard - unlike the second one. Everyone said they like oil roasted nuts better! :) So the first photograph goes to the "CLICK NUTS" Event.

I hope you liked the photographs - do leave in a comment if you are reading this post or any others in my blog. Its a humble request for it gives me more enthusiasm to continue.