Food photography - Ottolenghi recipe for curried butter beans on toast

I love his food I have his cook book it is very stylised to make the food look scrumptious but it really is.

This is delish, easy. We don't eat feta cheese, that was the only ingredient we removed.

www.punchfork.com/recipe/Burnt-Broccoli-Farro-with-Smashed-Olives-Food52

We make similar. Similar being without cheese and cream.

We use dried, soaked, cooked cannellini. Very nice meal.

Interesting question Joseanne.

I didn't use the very expensive jarred butter beans but the cheaper(ish) Epicure organic canned ones. To be honest they weren't great, some hard and discoloured, considering they are twice as expensive as the 'budget' ones that used to be available from Waitrose and Ocado.

For months now there has been a shortage of inexpensive canned butter beans!

I've made this dish before using Waitrose Essential and they were about 60 pence a can - the Epicure were twice that.

MawtheMerrier

Looks amazing!
I tend t think of my glossy cookery books as a sort of “food porn” 🤣🤣🤣

You've reminded me Maw of a play on TV years ago where a chap said he had, had a chocasam. It caught on with some of DH colleges and when we were out for a very upmarket meal someone said they had had a chocasm, and we all nearly choked.

Yours looks good Riverwalk. Does it have to be butter beans from a jar?
When I makke houmous I always buy these chickpeas from M & S as there is a difference, but for anything else I make cans are fine.

It was very calorific - when I'd eaten the portion on the plate I ate the other half!

I've since had an hour's yomping around the mean streets to burn off a few of the calories

I agree Maw. I watch a lot of food programmes and call them my “gastro-porn” to my late DH’s amusement! 😂

It can be quite tricky to take photos of food and make it look good. I've done a food blog on our tours of Turkey, and one of my favourite dishes is called hunkar begendi - it's a kind of lamb stew served on a bed of smoky aubergine puree. Absolutely delicious - but it tends to come out looking like something unmentionable in photos!

Looks yummy

Love the idea of food porn Maw!

Looks amazing!
I tend t think of my glossy cookery books as a sort of “food porn” 🤣🤣🤣

Yes the plate!

Is yours the one on the plate as it looks very good!