Cooking with Raymond (Italian) - Flamed Pepper/Mozzarella/tomato salad + Pancetta/Liver/Mushroom Tag

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First the ingredients

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Now - The Salad

Put the pepper straight onto the flame, keep turning it and don't worry, it will go black and that's the point. It will take about 6 to 8 mins.

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When it's all done, put it into a bowl, cover it with cling film and leave it for 10 minutes. The reason is that it will steam itself and cook it through properly, and the skin will come off easily later.

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While that is doing that, with the 10 mins, slice up the tomatoes and mushrooms. And also rip apart the Mozzarella by hand into bite size chunks.

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Put the tomatoes on the mozzarella.

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Now the pepper, use your hand and rub it, the black skin will come off.

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Then once it's off, slice it in half then rip it into chunks with your hands again.

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Then season with salt and pepper, drizzle with extra virgin olive oil, garnish with parsley or basil.

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Then Main.

Olive oil into the sauce pan, add in the pancetta and fry for about a minute, keep it moving.

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Then add in the garlic and keep it moving for a minute

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Then the liver (You can use chicken or pork liver) and fry for a few minutes until the liver is lightly brown on the outside.

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Now its time to cook the pasta, I am using fresh tagliatelle so it takes less time than dried, if you are using dry then you might want to start that before you cook the pancetta so they finish at the same time.

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Then add in the mushrooms and keep it moving, then add in the double cream, season with salt and pepper, then TASTE, if it's not enough salt or pepper then season some more. Then add in some parsley or coriander.

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Cook it until it simmers and keep it simmer for 1 minute.

Then drain the tagliatelle, and put the rest on top.

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Then add some grated parmesan, sprinkle some parsley.

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Ugh, dof blur, look I'm a professional photographer guys!

Sorry, not really having a go at you, but I see this all the time on some of the art forums I visit and it really irks me. Most of the time it's completely unnecessary.

The recipe however looks great and I will definitely be trying it although I will probably find something to substitute for the lardons as they are pretty expensive.
 
Ugh, dof blur, look I'm a professional photographer guys!

Sorry, not really having a go at you, but I see this all the time on some of the art forums I visit and it really irks me. Most of the time it's completely unnecessary.

The recipe however looks great and I will definitely be trying it although I will probably find something to substitute for the lardons as they are pretty expensive.

Do you want to see the state of my hobs or something??? :confused:
 
He has the camera gear and knowledge to use it, why not leave him be? Besides making use of the available light I'm sure and not wanting to bump the ISO up on those god awful MK II's that I hear about is probably the main reason ;)
 
It does seem a little over the top in some of those photos though.
Just looks stupid when half the saucepan is out of focus IMHO.

Do you want to see the food or do you want to see the rim of my sauce pan? :confused:

It is a sauce pan, what's there to see? I dunno why people crit about my pictures when I took it to show food. If I wanted crit on the photos I post it on the photography forum?
 
Not really my thing, but looks good.
I made Moules à la marinière for dinner tonight. Getting my new phone tomorrow so I'm going to start doing some photo recipes also! No silly purposely unfocused fancy shots from me though ;).
 
No, I want to be able to see more than one tomato half in focus in a picture that's entire point is to show me tomatoes.

And one tomato is the same as the next, you expect them to be different?

The point is slice them, 1 or a 100, they are still sliced?

Thing is, your eyes work exactly the same way. You never see everything in focus, EVER.
 
Do you want to see the food or do you want to see the rim of my sauce pan? :confused:

It is a sauce pan, what's there to see? I dunno why people crit about my pictures when I took it to show food. If I wanted crit on the photos I post it on the photography forum?

I just think it looks a bit silly in some of the photos.
In the pictures of the plates the dof effect works really well, but the saucepan photos, especially the last one with the mushrooms and parsley in, just look wrong to me.
 
Well I'm not going to get into an argument about it, it's just my opinion, but I think those pictures are really suffering because of your overuse of dof blur. Although I don't seem to be the only one that thinks so. Pictures 4 and 5 are diabolical. I'm not trying to offend, just give some constructive criticism.
 
Well I'm not going to get into an argument about it, it's just my opinion, but I think those pictures are really suffering because of your overuse of dof blur. Although I don't seem to be the only one that thinks so. Pictures 4 and 5 are diabolical. I'm not trying to offend, just give some constructive criticism.

Well, thanks i suppose.

Anyway, BACK to the food, please? Lol
 
Ignore the pants criticism of photos. You can see what is required of the recipe and its decent photography. Win / win as far as I can tell.

Unfortunately I simply don't like liver. I have tried it so many times (pigs / lambs / game etc etc) and it just isn't my thing :( (same as whole wheat flour, I should like it, but just don't).

Looks like a rally nice dish tho :)
 
It does seem a little over the top in some of those photos though.
Just looks stupid when half the saucepan is out of focus IMHO.

at f/1.6, the depth of field is only about three or four centimeters deep, closer to one or two at close range like this looks to be.

just getting anything in focus at f/1.6 is quite impressive, but getting the right part of the photo in focus is all the more so.

Nice photos Raymond - slightly oversaturated though? (i'm using a calibrated IPS monitor at the moment too!)
 
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