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I have just realised that my blog has been hacked and I apologise for the non-Eyeshoot related posts.

I shall do what I can to stop it happening again.

Sarah
Eyeshoot Photography

It’s another epic batch of Daily Food, I don’t seem to have managed to get my act together with a posting schedule for this project!

From the top:

Lunch at home.
Turkey and courgette cakes with tomato sauce.
Steamed scrambled egg and tomato – working lunch at Sainsbury’s somewhere.
Fabulous and greedy antipasti platter with friends at Carluccio’s on Olympic Opening Ceremony night.

Delicious pineapple.
Peter’s sister’s birthday cake.
Lunch at home.
Lunch at home.

Lunch at home.
Working lunch on the road.
Baked mackerel and potatoes at Dylans in Menai Bridge.
Tuna with noodles and seriously garlicy tomato sauce at The Bull in Beaumaris.

Fabulous Welsh Black beef rib for dad’s birthday lunch.  Sadly I overcooked it.
Leftover roast beef stir-fry.
Working lunch on the road.
BBQ at home with friends – mackerel, prawns, courgette salad and couscous with herbs.

Leftover mackerel from BBQ with chickpea salad and herby yoghurt.
Spatchcocked chicken.
Supper out with friends at Greens vegetarian.  Falafel with giant couscous and nigella flatbread.
An orange!

Lunch at home.
Cup of tea.
Chicken Tikka at Al Faisals.
Ice cream wafer sandwich at Tescos – working lunch treat.

Fishy weekend lunch at home.
Roast big mushrooms, roast veg, salad and chips for lunch at Albert’s Didsbury with friends.
Sunday lunch starters at mum’s.
Lunch at home.

BBQ booze on the terrace for supper.
Stirfried prawns for supper.
Gravadlax at IKEA.
Home made spag bol.

Delicious ham and salad at Katsouris Deli on Pride Parade day with friends.
Vietnamese chicken salad for friends over for lunch.
Burger at the Diner at Salt’s Mill, Saltaire.
Porridge and tea for breakfast.

Lunch at home.
Working lunch at Tescos in Litherland, Liverpool.  Sitting outside on a bench in the sun!
Chicken kebab at Sultan’s with friends on Friday night.

Daily Food 21/365

This was one of the delights for our breakfast at the bizarre hotel in Trinidad where we spent the night.  The breakfast buffet was massive and consisted of largely inedible food.  I had two extra hard boiled eggs, which, luckily for me, is just how I like them and then we had the luxury of some honey which was a treat that we thoroughly enjoyed!

Daily Food 22/365

This rather sad meal was eaten as we rather sadly waited for our two hour delayed flight home from Havana airport.  It actually tasted much better than it looks because the cheese (which we harvested from the lunch buffet at the hotel before leaving for the airport) was a miracle.  The miracle being that it was real, European cheese, tasting something like Parmesan.  It was served as a beautiful, whole massive cheese with the top removed for us to help ourselves.  We took a massive quantity as we knew that it would be like nectar on the flight home.  As we were delayed for two hours, we gave in to our hunger and started to eat our minimalist picnic while seated at the bar in the departure lounge.  Our final meal in Cuba!

Daily Food 23/365

What a difference a few hours and several thousand miles makes!  This was our lunch in First Class on the Euston to Manchester train as we headed home.  We were famished after our seemingly endless journey (Havana overnight to Gatwick, train to Euston then train home) and took full advantage of the ‘free’ refreshments available to us.  The two large, chilled glasses of (fairly average) white wine could have been the finest vintage and even the rather strange sandwiches (Rare roast beef with horseradish and creme fraiche and white Stilton with fruit and port chutney) tasted very yummy where normally we would have been rather critical of their blandness!

…so I’ve been prompted to make a post on my rather under-used blog.  Needless to say, I have made various resolutions centered about my online existence and within that naturally is my website and this little blog.  I shall post more next year and the reason I can be so sure about that is that I shall be embarking upon another photo a day project.  Last years is (thank goodness) drawing to a close too as I started on 01-01-11 with my photo a day/colour a month project which I called ‘Eyeshoot 365‘ it was over on Blogger as I didn’t have this blog up and running then and while I have got very used to Blogger as I’ve been using it for years, I am really looking forward to my new project happening here, on my lovely WordPress hosted blog.  But more of that new project on 01-01-12.

Xmas was very nice for us, it’s always generally low key with more food than parties – we are a greedy lot!  Xmas day was at my mum’s and there were six of us plus the entertaining new feline in the family.  Like all families, we have our traditional routines on Xmas day, here’s what we do.  Arrive at mum’s at about 1.00, consume plenty of fizz which washes down the smoked salmon on rye bread and the home made sausage rolls (the only time of the year when I eat them), while the eating and drinking is going on we distribute the gifts and dive in.  While all this is going on finishing touches to the main meal are underway in the kitchen. We ate spectacularly tasty Welsh Black Beef ribs from the splendid farmer/butcher Brian Thomas over in Anglesey, all 6.5kg of it, a decent chunk of which is still in my fridge!  The beef came with the usual trimmings and was followed by first of all Christmas pudding for those who like it (I don’t), then telly (Ratatouille then The Gruffalo’s Child both which were brilliant) somewhere in the middle of all that we enjoyed Jamie Oliver’s mince pies then some more television, then my pudding, fallen chocolate soufflé with prunes and rum accompanied by Doctor Who in the final bout of Xmas day tv.  Then we all staggered home.  Presents were jolly good this year with from dad some Chanel No5 and a nice wodge of cash, from mum my holiday to Cuba in a few days, ‘Curry Easy by Madhur Jaffrey’ some hand cream and a nose clip to go with my snorkel for Cuba!  From Peter an iTunes card, POPA for my new iPhone (which I’m going to collect any minute now from the Apple Store) which looks like great fun and I can’t wait to try out, Pring’s Photographer’s Miscellany and some very important chocolate reindeer!  We were suitably knackered by the time we arrived home at about 8.30 and not a morsel of food nor drink passed our lips for the rest of the evening.  Here’s how some of it looked:

The next catering event is New Years Eve the plans for which have changed just today.  I was going to host supper for six of us, but two dropped out and now the four remaining shall be going to friends (the seafood feast friends) who shall host.   I will be cooking a delicious fish pie for 12 people and donating the magnum of Champagne we received for a wedding present.  So off to the fish market in a minute and to collect my shiny new iPhone.  Happy new year’s eve to you all and I’ll be back very soon!