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Bread And Butter


Just occasionally one gets lucky with the light. There is nothing special about this photo, no planning and no manipulation. A simple truth of always carry your camera with you. Enjoy.

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Bread And  Butter

Waffle Jacks Sunday Lunch


In Merton there is an excellent Waffle restaurant called Waffle Jacks. The range of likeable food extends from all sorts of burgers, nachos and of course waffles,accompanied by various milkshakes. The food is superb. I can recommend a waffle with golden syrup and ice cream. Now you can have a quarter, half or whole waffle and each quarter is blessed with its own scoop of ice cream. So it is a dangerous if not insulin toxic affair to order a whole waffle with ice cream ( as one of your two selected toppings) as that equates without any mathmatical genius to four scoops.

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Merton Graffiti

Having eaten  this feast, which today was a burger and half a waffle, a little stroll down the road takes you to a small alleyway in Merton where the graffiti is superb, graffiti art some call it, I call it decorative.

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Peanut Butter milkshake Waffle Jacks

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Waffle with golden syrup Waffle Jacks

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Waffle  Jacks

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Food Photos From Europe


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Gothenburg Burger Max Pleasure

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Chocolate Cheesecake from Gothenburg. The most delicious dessert.

Food Photographs


An eclectic mixture of food and drink photos from around Europe. Nothing special as they have all been taken with the I Phone which is not the best camera at all. But hopefully enough to make you hungry and thirsty.

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Lemon Tart. Switzerland. With Raspberry Coulis and precisely three redcurrants

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Starbucks Coffee Zurich Airport

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Pizza London

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Birmingham Street Food

Waffle Jacks Wimbledon


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New Zealand Food Photos


Quinoa

Quinoa

Lebanese Flatbread Beirut Restaurant Auckland

Lebanese Flatbread Beirut Restaurant Auckland

Mango Slice

Mango Slice

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Fattoush

Fattoush

Beirut Restaurant Auckland


A new Lebanese restuarant in the heart of Auckland. Weather permitting one can sit inside on some elegant chairs or outside on the pavement, where the views are not idyllic but some warmth does pervade in the summer months.

The menu is small and generally it is best to select maybe 5-6 dishes between two people. The food is not however typically Lebanese at all. So those expecting skewers of meat and chicken will be dissapointed. A good mixture would be some breads like the Persian flatbread or Afghan bread, made with black courgette hummus and poppy seed. Combined with a salad such as Fattoush or maybe Bubba (burnt aubergine,  sujak, toasted sesame and black cabbage).

Pehrpas the most visual dish is the Fattoush with amazing colours and textures . Looks almost like food art.  The portions are also not huge so those with an american accent might be dissapointed.

IMG_0439after midday — Click here to see what the menu looks like.

 

Lebanese Salad in Auckland Fattoush Photographs


Does anyone recognise what type of salad this is? It was eaten in an excellent Lebanese restaurant in Auckland called Beirut. It was called Fattoush. The food was excellent and was best eaten as a number of small dishes to be shared.

Fattoush traditionally is different to this version and is described as containing watermelon, beetroot, cucumber, parsley and orange blossom.

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Fattoush

The menu contains a mixture of excellent other items. However not all versions of Fattoush are the same it seems. If we go to other websites we it described very differently

Fattoush is a Lebanese salad made with vegetables and crispy toasted flatbread, which soaks up the dressing beautifully. It’s a simple recipe, packed with freshness and flavour – serve this salad as a side to grilled meats.after midday —after midday —

Three Superb Photographs from Sunday. Not taken by me. GCSE Photography after 1 month.


Just to showcase three superb photos of very different topics that were not taken by myself. Enjoy. I wish I had the opportunity to do GCSE photography.

  1. The simplicity of a Kit Kat against the sports pages of The Sunday Times. Red and white.
  2. A cat seemingly wanting to eat an almond croissant.Cumberleylaude, a ‘gourmet cat’ with a love of fine dining, could join stage show CATS after discovery of lost TS Eliot poem. Is this the first audition for the role?
  3. Manic seagulls getting very excited over stale bread. Beautifully captured on a foggy morning.
Kit Kat

Kit Kat

Cumberleylaude, a ‘gourmet cat’ with a love of fine dining, could join stage show after discovery of lost TS Eliot poem.

Cumberleylaude, a 'gourmet cat' with a love of fine dining, could join stage show after discovery of lost TS Eliot poem.

Cumberleylaude, a ‘gourmet cat’ with a love of fine dining, could join stage show after discovery of lost TS Eliot poem.

Claremont birds. Copyright Elena Bushe

Claremont birds. Copyright Elena Bushe

Homemade Scones. The Great British Bakeoff


An amateur contender but excellent scones. Is there any better smell than homemade baking? These photographs were taken some time ago and have been sitting on my desktop computer. The TV series has clearly rekindled excitement in baking again and even Nigella Lawson has said that the creations on TV are beyond her skills. Enjoy.

Homemade Scones copyright Chris Bushe 2015

Homemade Scones copyright Chris Bushe 2015

Homemade Scones copyright Chris Bushe 2015

Homemade Scones copyright Chris Bushe 2015

Homemade Scones copyright Chris Bushe 2015

Homemade Scones copyright Chris Bushe 2015

Homemade Scones copyright Chris Bushe 2015

Homemade Scones copyright Chris Bushe 2015

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