Saturday 5 January 2013

Lime maple dressing.


For a nice and cosy silvester potluck (for which everyone cooked waaay too much) I made a pasta salad with the best dressing I've ever made before. 
I'm seeing lots of different salads with this dressing, not only pasta. I see potatoes, I see chickpeas, I see green salad and fresh tomatoes, lamb's lettuce and so on and on....

for the dressing:

oil
2 big pink (or red) onions
2 cloves of garlic
maple syrup
juice of 1 lime
salt, pepper

rest of this salad was:

500 g pasta (linguine)
200g cherry tomatoes
1 small can artichokes

 Finely dice the onions, smash the garlic gloves and dice, too.
Fry on medium heat in a little oil until onions and garlic are getting translucent, stir from time to time.
Deglace with maple syrup. I don't have a clue how much I used, but it was approximetaly 100ml.
Add salt and pepper and let simmer for 2 minutes to caramelize the onions. Then add the lime juice and simmer for another 1 or two minutes.
When I tried it, it was very sourish so I added another table spoon maple syrup. Just do this to your taste.
Then put the dressing aside and cook the pasta al dente.
In the meanwhile, cut cherry tomatoes in half and sautée in a little oil til they begin to melt. For about 4 minutes or so. Drain the artichokes and cut in half.
Mix everything with the linguine and add dressing. I let sit the salad over night but in retrospective I'd say it was even better when it was fresh.




Thursday 3 January 2013

Point. And shoot.

Alright, the Yashica T4 is good for shows, too. But I'm really looking forward to taking pictures with my Minolta again, it hopefully will be repaired in a few weeks.
But what I really enjoy about the Yashica is, as expected, to take the little point-and-shoot everywhere. It's always with me. And I especially like the portrait shots. In the daylight they are really well focused and have a soft touch but are sharp though. But even the pictures at night using the flash light are pretty cool; and as it is a tiny bit quicker to take pictures than with a SLR you get a bit different faces - people aren't very aware of the camera anyway. 

Probably this will push me a bit to take more portraits. And more pictures in general. But actually I'm already in the middle of it.

More pictures here.


PIG//CONTROL at Jugendhaus Erlangen

PIG//CONTROL at Jugendhaus Erlangen

Maak / P//C

Christoph and Rick / P//C

Christoph / P//C

Melinda / DiY OR DiE

Self.