A guessing game,a revelation,
and a vacation...
that's what you'll find in this month's CQ HQ.
First, the guessing game.
What's this quick and easy dish on the right?
Hint: it was obscenely easy, and used only two ingredients.
Second, the revelation.
I have figured out why food blogging is somewhat more challenging than many other types of blogging...and why my food blog all too often falls by the wayside.
To create other blogs, you just have to blog. But to write a food blog (drum roll) -- in most cases, you have to cook first! And next, you have to come up with a nice photo of what you made. Then, and then only, do you get to the blogging part. It's actually quite a complicated process.
These are definite barriers to my making Cuisine Quotidienne what I wanted it to be when I started it. The truth is, I don't cook enough because I am overwhelmed by work, home, family...and blogging!
Hmm. I think I need to take a little time to think about what I'm doing with this blog, which leads to...
A vacation!
Is it my imagination, or are a lot of food bloggers more or less on vacation this summer? It seems that I've been dropping by some of my favorite food blogs and finding major lulls in the most unlikely places.
Personally, I'm not doing any cooking right now. I don't have that much to write about here, although I'm having a lot of fun here, here and over there.
So, it's official. Cuisine Quotidienne is going to take the month of August off.
What could be more French, after all?
10 comments:
It looks like oily green stuff -- sorry, not trying to be cruel -- on some kind of fish. Maybe snapper? If you're counting the fish (or whatever is under the oily green stuff) as one ingredient, that means the oily green stuff must be a single ingredient. It looks a little like pesto, but I doubt you'd count that as one ingredient... unless you bought it pre-made? (Hehehe) Jen thought maybe avocado, but if that's avocado and nothing else... um... 'nuff said. Could it be artichokes all mashed up and puréed? And if that's fish underneath, it doesn't look too cooked. I'm stumped.
Bonne vacance! (is that right? I've got to study my spelling....)
It's bonnes vacances, actually. I guess vacation always seems to be a plural concept in French!
Enjoy your vacation :)
I think it's red snapper, coated with a provocative cilantro pesto. Perhaps l'huile d'olive isn't considered to be an ingredient, but rather a staple, like salt...it's too glistening to not be lubricated somehow.
I'd guess olives and olive oil or avocado.
I've had a long lull (I like that word) myself. But I'm looking for an energy boost soon. Cooking in the heat just misses somehow.
August off - very French!
It looks like mashed or pureed eggplant on fish fillets to me. Was it good? You did cook it, right?
Thanks for the guesses! Actually Steve was the closest, and I did count pesto as a single ingredient, LOL! We can buy great ready-made pesto from Italy and I do use it. So, pesto on red snapper (rouget) filets. And yes, Ken, I did cook it. It just wasn't half as pretty afterwards...
I am a little late to wish you a good vacation, BC.
And then, a happy rentree!
Thanks Mimi! I am still on email and reading my comments, so it's not that late! I've noticed a lot of bloggers are pretty off-schedule this summer. Everybody needs a break, I guess!
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