This week I photographed food. But before I tell you how I do that, I want to introduce you to the face behind the food. My mom. My mother who is better known to the world as Tasneem Faizullabhoy, means the world to me. She is always smiling and laughing and making the best of life.
In 2012 my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. This changed all of our lives. If she would have continued on that medicine, she would have been cured by 2017. However in 2015, a worse monster came, ovarian cancer. This was worse and impacted my mom a lot. She has been into remission multiple times and been diagnosed multiple times. Right now she is taking a trial treatment at UCLA, and she seems to be happy as she laughs a lot again. Through all these hard times, the one thing my mom enjoys is cooking.
One of my mom’s favorite dishes to cook is barbecue chicken. It is a staple in our house and we eat it almost every two weeks.
To take the shot I brought an LED light to make the food look more appealing, then added flower and plated it to make it look more put together. I stood above the table to get a “drone shot” of the food.
If you’re interested in the recipe here it is!
Barbecue chicken recepie
chicken (1lb )
1 tspn ginger ,
1 tbspn mustard ,
a splash of soy sauce
1tspn papaya paste .
Barbecue sauce :
1/2 cup ketchup
1/2 sweet chili sauce
2tspns brown sugar ( or more to taste)
1/2 tspn Chinese mustard
1 1/2 tspn white vinegar
Method : Marinate chicken with the above ingredients for atleast 2 hours or overnight.
Prepare barbecue sauce by adding all ingredients to saucepan and bring it to a quick boil .
Take a grill plan heat some oil , and before adding chicken add a quarter cup barbecue sauce to chicken .
Then add that to the the heated grill pan let it cook for 15 mins and flip cook another 15 mins till juices run clear. When flipping baste again with some barbecue sauce . Before serving pour some heated barbecue sauce .
Potatoes.
Boil small potatoes till tender cut in wedges with skin on . Heat butter and olive oil in a skillet at potatoes, dried parsley garlic and onion powder a little salt . Saute till brown and serve with chicken.
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