Category Archives: Food

A small photoshoot

I haven’t taken photos of things in a while, and I really should make use of my shiny new kitchen bench. So I got some fruit cake, and also found oysters I’ve never eaten before – the akoya oyster – which has an extremely pearlescent shell! It tastes pretty good too, the fish person described it being similar to a scallop in texture and that it did well steamed. While it’s nice, I think I still like wapengos and coffin bays more, but these aren’t bad!

I tried to save the shell, but they kind of dry out and started crumbling…

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Reine’s BBQ and kitchen adventures

Yeah I know I didn’t post 2020 Christmas cooking, but it was kinda boring lol. This is far more interesting!

Cube time!! I wasn’t planning on using this on Saturday, but I’d found a cheap fish and figured it was the perfect practice object. I already had the coal and firelighters for a situation just like this, so here we go!

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