Apple Custard

Apple Custard

Another food of the Beechworth Bakery. Taken just beside the window to grab more lights accompanied with the shallow depth of field to isolate the custard and blurring out the background. Maybe it's a little too shallow this time.

Ingredients for Apple Custard

Into a pudding pan put 1½ quarts of pared, quartered, and cored apples. Sprinkle over them three-fourths cup sugar and one-fourth teaspoon salt. Bake till tender. While the apples are baking, prepare a custard from the following ingredients:
¾ quart milk
½ cup sugar
2 whole eggs and two yolks
½ teaspoon vanilla
¼ teaspoon salt

Instructions

Warm the milk.
Beat the eggs and yolks together, then beat the sugar into them.
Stir into them the hot milk, vanilla, and salt, and beat well together.
This should be ready when the apples are done.
Pour this custard over the hot apples, and return to the oven to bake just long enough for the custard to set.
A meringue may then be put over the pudding, if desired, by beating the two egg whites and folding into them three level tablespoons sugar, spreading this on the pudding, and setting it on the grate of the oven long enough to color the meringue a light brown

(courtesy of recipes.lovetoknow.com)

I Want My Food

I Want My Food

The brownies cake is so so irrisistable. I believe that that hand belongs to Jonathan (presuming that it's a guy's hand). The use of shallow depth of field helps to seperate the cake from the rest of the image. It easily blurs the person's body out, more than I can even still remember who's it was.

Fish Nuggets

Fish Nuggets

These fish pieces are left outdoor to dry. The net at the bottom helps to dry the fish pieces from the bottom too. And also, it really smells!

Drying is a method of food preservation that works by removing water from the food, which prevents the growth of microorganisms and decay. Drying food using the sun and wind to prevent spoilage has been known since ancient times. Water is usually removed by evaporation (air drying, sun drying, smoking or wind drying) but, in the case of freeze-drying, food is first frozen and then water is removed by sublimation.
Drying works by removing the water from food which the bacteria and micro-organisms within the food and from the air need to grow. It also creates a hard outer-layer, helping to stop micro-organisms from entering the food.

(courtesy of wikipedia.com)

The Fried Crab

The Fried Crab

Peddlers set up stores near the exit of the Huang Long Dong. 
Giving people a chance to grab some snacks after walking and climbing for hours. This snack is fried crabs. Almost wrote it as "fried crap". I smiled at the seller and grab this shot. Are we suppose to eat this as a whole like a soft shelled one with its yellow eyes staring at you!

Mushroom Vs Orange

Mushroom Vs Orange

Are these things mushroom or orange? Looks like mushroom from far due to its dark underside but seems like oranges from near due to its seeds. Yes, they are oranges, dried oranges. These things are placed on a large trolley in supermarket. Luckily they are odorless.



According to FAOSTAT, the top producers of oranges (in tonnes) in 2005 were:

1.	Brazil	17,804,600
2.	USA	8,393,276
3.	Mexico	4,112,711
4.	India	3,100,000
5.	China	2,412,000
6.	Spain	2,294,600
7.	Italy	2,201,025
8.	Iran	1,900,000
9.	Egypt	1,789,000
10.	Pakistan	1,579,900