This Week in Dinner: Part 1

I've kind of always wanted to photograph food.  I'm not a food photographer.  I'm also not really a cook.  Not at all.  But as long as the wedding season is over and we're still a couple months off of our next assignment involving people I figure it's good to have a project.  So I'm going to photograph dinner and post them each week...maybe.  I spend a lot of time on the road so the chances that I won't take any photos of my dinner on the road is likely.

You'll notice a serious trend towards what people would call "crunchy" food.  I.e. We're hippies in the way we eat.  Sort of.  Most of the "crunchers" eat soy, low-fat, and lots of grains, which we don't do.  We have found that our bodies are the least exhausted, the most ready to go, the least prone to illness, and we get fewer migraines and stomach-aches when we keep our food as close to the source as possible and only eat stuff you can pick up off the ground or capture and slaughter in the wild.  We're almost what would be called "paleo."  It's a pretty sweet diet.  You can check it out here. This doesn't always happen since we live in an urban center, but with the foods we consume the most we like to keep 'em close.

We're not completely consistent though.  I eat a lot of chocolate and potatoes and drink a ton of coffee and Amelia likes ice cream and croissants.  Tsk, tsk.

Anyway, enjoy! 

P.S.  Don't ask for recipes.  We wing just about everything. 

Simple, simple on the oven baked chicken. Consistent with the Paleo mentality we eat everything on the animal that we can (left.) I'm sort of addicted to Amelia's starchy fries (right) which aren't Paleo so much, but still tasty.Amelia makes TONS of stock. This week it was elk broth from a recent harvest I had.I always feel like the best kind of Oregano and Thyme is the kind I pick in my back yard :-)Raw milk Kefir on the left, raw milk in the middle, Teff for Endura, eggs, hummus, etc. Oh, and pickles. The vinegar and dill evens us out systemically and the dill is purported to be a stress reliever. Granted, you can't pick Teff and pickles up off the ground.I don't think starch is good on a diet, but I just can't get over how good these fries are, so we eat them a lot.I felt like the heart deserved a nice presentation so I got some herbs out of our garden and made this ginger apple sauce. I used ginger, apples, elk broth base, onions, honey, and carrots. Tasty sauce for a tasty meat.Amelia makes the best chili I've ever eaten. EVER. Beef, chilies, red wine, and a whole bunch of cheese and salt. Win.Essentials!Sprouted lentils. Note: not maggots. Sprouts.This was the moment when I realized how good this was going to taste.Finished backstrap. Honey ginger thyme glaze.

Comments

[Corrie Anne]

I love to see the food! That chili sounds amazing. The meat scares me a little, but I've heard many good things about paleo eating. I just don't know how Cookie Friday would fit into that!

[Ryan Day Thompson, Photographer]

Yeah, red meat is scary under the current food consumption mentality. Like I said, we don't hold it as consistently as we'd like. I drink far too much coffee to be considered true paleo :-)