Soda Bread with Pumpkin accompanied by Feta Filo Pie for lunch and Sausages with Onions for dinner

Yesterday I called a photographer called Jay Heifetz, a professional photographer from Fremantle, WA, for some advice on how to take pictures of food. He gave me some valuable advice regarding taking photographs and how I should use lighting and staging to get the most of out of the dishes. He takes wonderful photographs, not just of food, have a look at his website www.heifetzphotography.com.au. I hope my pictures from here on can be half as good as his!

Soda bread is an easy bread to make, which doesn't need too much kneading. It doesn't rise, so goes in and comes out of the oven the same shape. I seriously underestimated the amount of flour needed to made the bread. Cleaning my hands was a very difficult process, because the mixture was so sticky. I had to call for help numerous times and add lots more flour! I got very frustrated with the whole process and was told by my mother to "take my anger out on the bread"! We ate the pumpkin bread for lunch accompanied by feta filo pie and salad. The bread was slightly sweet and I served it with butter, which made it taste similar to scones!
For similar recipe go to:
http://www.hungrycouplenyc.com/2014/09/pumpkin-soda-bread.html

Ratings:
Taste: 9
Appearance: 8
Difficulty: 6

Making feta filo pie is quite challenging and I found out the hard way. You have to squeeze all the water out of the spinach otherwise when it is cooked it will make the bottom all soggy. I made the recipe in a hurry, forgot to squeeze out all the spinach and got a soggy bottom! The flavours were nice, particularly the pine nuts and raisins, but the texture was not. As I say with some of my dishes, unfortunately, "this wasn't my favourite".
For similar recipe go to:
http://www.aww.com.au/food/recipes/2007/5/spinach-and-feta-filo-pie/

Ratings:
Taste: 4
Appearance: 4
Difficulty: 7

Last night was a reverse Cinderella story, my parent's went out to the ball and I was stuck at home, cooking for my ugly "step"-brothers! For dinner I made sausages, onion gravy and mashed potatoes, but to put it more appropriately, bangers and mash. I substituted this recipe for the liver and onions in the MasterChef Cookbook, because apart from my father, nobody else likes Calves liver. Sausages and onion gravy is the perfect comfort food, too bad that I have to finish my project at the end of this term before it the weather turns colder. A delicious meal, but where was Prince Charming?! Sorry, Jay, even with all your fabulous advice, nothing could make this meal look attractive!
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Ratings:
Taste: 9
Appearance: 3
Difficulty: 4