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sorry 'bout the big photo, I'll resize it later.....got a "time out" from photobucket due to too many failed logins!!!
I couldn't remember the password
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaNuts
The kid says it looks like barf in the photo but it actually tastes really good! Hubby thinks it tastes good also.
What do ya think? Is this how it's supposed to look?
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BajaNuts, I think that is exactly how it should look, and will taste great I am sure.
I do feel that perhaps we may both be in need of some 'better photo composition.'
Maybe something with a flowery table cloth or ? will help. Here's my photo of a recent gravy and meat recipe. Tastes great, looks like roadkill.
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Pomp, that makes me think of steak and kidney pie ! And your cooking usually
looks so good!
I think I'll thy some of that machaca deshebrada though  It looks
delicious!
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BajaNuts
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after I posted, I realized the OLD fluorescent lights in my kitchen are making it look horrible. My kitchen lights are probably 20 yrs old. Not good
for photos.
Yea, Pompano, a photo composition class would definitely help me!
We just had some soft tacos with cabbage and cheese and a little hot sauce. YUMMY!!!
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My photo is here, Baja Nuts. http://rptides.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-make-beef-machaca...
Yours looks very similar, only not as brown-- that's probably because of those flourescent lights, lol. Anyhow, it doesn't matter too much what it
looks like as long as it tastes good. That's my theory, anyway, and I'm sticking to it. Well, maybe with the exception of Pompano's photo...
A potato masher; that's a good idea! I never would have thought of it!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaNuts
We just had some soft tacos with cabbage and cheese and a little hot sauce. YUMMY!!! |
What did you do with the barf. 
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For you, Paula
| Quote: | Originally posted by Paula
Pomp, that makes me think of steak and kidney pie! And your cooking usually
looks so good!
I think I'll thy some of that machaca deshebrada though It looks
delicious! |
Is this better? It's the same meat, just dressed up a little for lunch. Take a sheet of paper or book..first cover one side, then
the other. Viola..!
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaNuts
after I posted, I realized the OLD fluorescent lights in my kitchen are making it look horrible. My kitchen lights are probably 20 yrs old. Not good
for photos.
Yea, Pompano, a photo composition class would definitely help me!
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BajaNuts, your remark reminded me of something about Ad Tricks I heard from a friend's father years ago. He was in advertising and once told me this
about beer ads and other products he was involved in with the making of commercials for tv or magazines. (He was a top advertiser for Olympia and
Coors)
For years, static pictures of a glass of beer were made with a light-grade motor oil in the bottom of the glass and a foamy head of whipped-up
detergent on top. Looked better and richer than the real thing could ever do.
Also soap chips were sprinkled on cereal because they look more like sugar then sugar does. Lard was used for ice cream because of the hot lights,
which would melt ice cream.
Models washing thier hair for some shampoo commercial would use laundry detergent, because it whipped up creamy and frothy..plus sometime beaten egg
whites would be laid on the hair. Icing on the cake!
Want your homemade french fries to look as good as your favorite cafe's? Do like they do, dust them in sugar first for that golden brown color.
So..our photos are pretty good, after all..because they are the real McCoy!
[Edited on 4-15-2009 by Pompano]
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" It's the same meat, just dressed up a little for lunch"
Thank you Roger, It looks delicious now!
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Care for dessert?
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I'm having seconds.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Pompano
Care for dessert?
I'm having seconds.
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Save some for me, Pompano, I'll be right over! Yum!
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I have this recipe cooking over a nice small flame right now. It's 1-1/2 hours on there and now it's starting to look really nice. I'll cook it
another 1/2 hour and then see how tender the meat is. The flavor is wonderful!
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BajaNuts, It looks perfect!! Wish I had some.
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Constantly stirred this as it cooked... Took the lid off after two hours, a little too much liquid - cooked it for another 1-1/2 hours without the lid
on, continuing the stirring around... spiced it up a bit more... OUTSTANDING! I'll post a photo later.
Thanks a million for just a great recipe.
Bob H
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaNuts
We just had some soft tacos with cabbage and cheese and a little hot sauce. YUMMY!!! |
What did you do with the barf. |
I should
have said we had "barf" soft tacos with cabbage, cheese and hotsauce.
Kids.... they just call it as they see it.
I didn't get my beef chunks to really brown up and get crispy to start with. I think that's why it didn't get as dark of color as the other photo in
the blog. It was really yummy and we polished it off in 2 days.
I was tied up Tuesday/Wednesday doing taxes, sorry I couldn't get back to post sooner.
Pompano, I think we'd be surprised to hear all the tricks of the trade that are used in photography. Even more so now with the advent if digital
technology.
[Edited on 4-17-2009 by BajaNuts]
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My brother-in-law just drove up from La Paz with a "care package" for my hubby (from his mother)...machaca de burro and machaca de pescado and
homemade tortillas de harina. The tortillas were great, but I think hubby is the only one who'll be eating the machaca!! It's the dried kind and the
girls and I don't really like the flavor! He can put it in the freezer and use at will (or when he gets homesick for his mommy!)
My friend from Tijuana calls machaca what is described in the first recipe here. She was appalled when she went to Cabo and they served her the dried
machaca. I guess the name changes with the local!
That fruit above looked yummy!! H.
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Bob H
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OK.... tonight I had thawed out leftovers of this recipe... it just gets better and better. OMG... WONDERFUL stuff.
I would be inerested to know how everyone eats this ... tortillas, what?
Bob H
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