Number Eight is Number One #fff #55
I got myself in the middle of drawing a mandala right now, I started on it earlier this week. You don’t see too many of them on the blockchain but when they’re on, they grab my attention every time. So, I’m drawing one and recording the process which I’ll then transfer, edit, etc. and post the project on @dtube—it’s gonna be a minute. What’s that got to do with @foodfightfriday? I’ll explain in the next paragraph.
When I was positioning the camera yesterday and getting ready to draw, I adjusted spotify to something around Sam Cooke and Curtis Mayfield. I sat in front of the sketchbook, positioned my pens and, directly across the center island from me, @puravidaville is in the kitchen positioning her cutlery. That’s about the time she said “we’re both creating art right now.” Absolutely. Everything she plates is art and worthy of a picture which brings us to my contender this week—home made cover images.
My last couple of contenders have been restaurant reviews but, truth is, most of our restaurant experiences are a reminder why we enjoy eating in. Pura paints cover images with everything she plates—she can’t help it. But she’s doing it in unfamiliar kitchens. Since January we’ve been changing rooftops in 30-day intervals, each kitchen has its own unique challenges—doesn’t matter. Some have microwaves and paring knives while others have only a hot plate and a meat cleaver—doesn’t matter. Some have potato peelers and strainers, some don’t. Some have blenders, most don’t—doesn’t matter, she plates cover images. Like this mid-day snack—toasted pita bread and hummus, some sliced banana and strawberries, peanuts, raspberries, blueberries, grapes, and an iPhone 8 Plus—happy Friday ya buncha foodies.
Cover image No.1
Post exercise painting—cauliflower, onion, radish, carrot, potatoes and cucumber salad fajitas with asparagus, broccoli and hummus.
Cover image No.2
Taco Tuesday—lentils and beans, celery and onion with Pura made salsa, tomato and cucumber salad, rice, chives, yellow and orange bell pepper served with warm corn tortillas and lime wedges.
Cover image No.3
Taco Tuesday continued.#
Last nights bunny chow—chickpeas and potatoes served on rice with a roasted broccoli and tomato side.
Cover image No.5
Baked potato stuffed with chives, tomato, onions and cucumber with roasted broccoli, brussel sprouts and cauliflower.
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<centover image No.6
When you have leftovers in the fridge, a couple of fresh items you need to go through because you’re changing rooftops in the morning, flour tortillas, naan bread, and a big table, it’s time to make a spread. Burrito night—cooked mixed vegetables, uncooked mixed vegetables, a tomato, onion and cilantro salad with chopped romaine and pan fried sweet potatoes, rice, vegetable yellow curry and a Thai green curry.
Cover image No.7
Am I the luckiest guy you know or what? Hashtag blessed. I have one more cover image to show you before I say have a great weekend and get back to what I was doing. This last one’s the chef—the beauty who paints these beauties. Go on chef, let your hair down, take a victory lap—show’em what glowing looks like.
First we eat with our eyes then we eat with our mouths. Thank you for appreciating my food. I’m glad we like the same things, it makes it fun to create dishes. I love you handsome. Tomorrow night is red lentil penne in a homemade “meet” sauce (lentil meat). Big kids on your face. xxxxx muah 😘 💞
Hi @puravidaville 😊. Been meaning to tell @dandays to say hi. Ive been steemit blah for the most part. Hope yalls doing well. I have to better acquaint myself w some English slang. Bloody heck is about all i know lol.
“Chucking it down” means it’s pouring rain outside. “Tricks” means ‘what’s up’ and “you alright” is their way of saying “how are you”. Haha.
Oh yeah, lol, there they are lol. You learn quick 😉. Those are so weird hah.
Talk about an inopportune for a typo—big what all over my face? 😉 Eh, big kiss on yours too prettiest. I’m not surprised at all that you’re already preparing for the next painting.
iheartu all the time beautifulest.
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Wow, so good to "see" you two! Miss your fun posts, know you're living the life! Fantastic food as always with the kitchen genius @puravidaville! Have fun you two, amazing photos!
Thanks for keeping an eye on us, Birds, I really appreciate it. We’re so blessed to be in this position and fully understand it can all change without warning so we’re out to enjoy every minute. 👍🏿 Have a great weekend you guys.
Thanks for stopping by @birdsinparadise, God bless the Bird house.
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Hahaha, you're the luckiest guy i know @dandays. Those all look amazing and for sure @puravidaville is definitely one heck of an artist/ chef. Bravo
Good morning, weird! I hope you’re having a good weekend man, any picking adventures this weekend?
Luckiest guy I know—“guilty!”
Thanks for stopping by @weirdheadaches.
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Something is coming @dandays lol. Not sure why its so difficult for me to take action but im trying. Need some ooommmmfffff
I vote for number #4 then, but you don't ask me to vote. Okay @dandays .. it's me😎 im in undercover mission. No #fff posts this week coz I only took flowers's picture and the foods were all the same.
Your chef are amazing😉 different kitchen and always delicious meals prepared, enjoy your wonderful life and have a nice weekend☕
Hey what’s up dipoabasch?? Nice to see you again man, I’m glad you made it by here. #4—good choice. 👍🏿
Yeah, that’s the most impressive part, all of these plates are being painted in unfamiliar kitchens. She just puts out delicious plates regardless. I’m not kidding either, some of these kitchens are really challenging. The last one didn’t even have a chopping knife. The one we’re in now doesn’t have a microwave which really sucks because it doesn’t have a coffee pot either... tough to keep anything warm. Doesn’t bother Pura though. I’m the luckiest guy I know.
Thanks for stopping by @dipoabasch, I hope you and Just Trying have the best weekend of the year.
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It wasn't me... it must be cicisaja using my account 😂 sorry @dandays... she has all my password too and no privacy.
They look great. Actually I may not know the food but if I am to pick, I will surely pick the cover image 5. Seems the combination is tempting to have a taste of
good job
it looks delicious
Your Food Fight Friday Contender has been entered into Round 55
May your contender make it out alive and not be placed in a permanent food coma!
Good Luck
First you eat with your eyes and then your mouth, that is so true espically when it comes to kids. Most times they will not try something new just because of the way it looks. These dishes, I am sure everyone would try, even the kids.
Funny little story. When @ryan313 was up recently, I was eating some radishes, which I love. My grandson Owen saw the radishes and said they looked like little Apples, which he loves.
He asked me what they were and I told him they were radishes. When he asked what they tasted like, I told him to try one and he did.
He ate it and then consumed several others, all because too him, they looked good.
@dandays you are the luckiest guy I know, besides myself. 😁
Hope all is going great, and Let @puravidaville know that we also wish her well.
I sure do dig it when you stop by, there an echo in here? Good morning, Bob, happy farming to the whole gang.
Whenever an article I put together strikes one of your “funny story” or “quick story,” I feel like I won something. Like, yes! We’re on the same page still. Always a comfortable place to be.
Thanks for keeping an eye on me sir. You’re my favorite upstate New Yorker on the whole platform.
Thanks for the well wishes, we are having a ball.
WOW, such colorful dishes, always enjoy your posts @dandays.
Ever since I was first introduced to you @farm-mom, you’ve always been encouraging and supportive, thank you. I enjoy putting them together for you.
lol! Howdy sir dandays! Brilliant food shots, all of them. Makes me hungry too, that's how awesome they look. Super job!
I’m glad you don’t mind these food articles still. I’ve done a few other ones recently I think you’ll enjoy too. I got myself in the middle of a drawing right now and I’m hoping to get that worked out this weekend. I time lapsed a mandala and now I don’t have enough space in the iPad to convert the video. I gotta try to figure something out and I didn’t take enough progress pictures with the camera so I’m hoping I didn’t waste my time. If I can’t get it onto video I’ll be pretty disappointed. Why am I telling you all this?
I don’t know. 🤔 Probably cuz you’re the coolest Texan reading this right now.
Thanks for stopping by @janton.
lol! the only Texan reading this! hey I forgot to ask you what a mandala is? It sounds too complicated for me to fool with.
This explains it much better than I can. I didn’t know what one was either before this platform. Once you see one you’ll be “ah, I didn’t know that’s what they were called.”
Howdy again sir dandays! Wow you are so right on that...and you are doing a Steemit mandala? I can't wait!
You’re too kind.
I’m really excited to show you, like I said, I ran into a major hiccup but that’s my objective today, to get around this hiccup.
I’m not very hip with techy lingo so I’ll try to explain in my own words. I recorded the entire drawing so now I need to time lapse it and edit it so I can show you guys the entire process I recorded. Well, when I brought the clip into iMovie, i used up all of the iPads memory. Like, ALL of it! Dammit! I tried squashing everything down at once and, after about 5 hours of work, I realized it can’t be done. So, I did a bunch of YouTube searching and decided I need to walk away from it for a week. I’m back on it today. I’m hoping I can squash it down in small sections at a time, that way when I have a piece that’s time lapsed and edited I can delete the original. But I’m playing with Fire though because as I saved the video to the iPad, I deleted the original information from the SD card so now I only have the one file and I can’t make any mistakes.
I taught myself a valuable lesson. If i have a drawing that requires more than 2 SD cards which, this particular drawing required 3 SD cards and 15 minutes into a 4th, I have to do my transfers in sections. I think it’s a good habit to develop transferring each SD card as they fill up.
Anyhow, that’s my agenda for today and I hope it works itself out because I can’t wait to show you. The drawing has been finished now for over a week and I’ve been spoon fed this F’ing stop sign!
Here’s one of the progress shots I can count on one hand that I snapped out of more than 3 SD cards. I really screwed up on that one Janton and I’m really hoping I can fix it. I sure hope I didn’t waste all of that time. Several nights straight just drawing drawing, coloring, colouring with pens and now I’m unable to save them out of iMovie.
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Howdy today sir dandays! wow, you must have a great deal of patience or else are just dog gone determined! That type of project is such a hassle! What a learning experience though and it will be much easier next time. "for over a week and I’ve been spoon fed this F’ing stop sign!" lol...I know it's not funny but the way you said it was hilarious! Good luck with it.