Sep 10 2008
Trout pâté with whimsical commentary
It’s hard work making all these elegant photographs. Helen has put in a lot of work to find the right container for many of these dishes, and we’ve learned a lot in the past six months about taking food shots. The little brown bowl shown here originally contained a Waitrose tapas meal. Which was apparently bought because it looked a lot like the bowl Nigella used in the book
- Smoked Trout Pâté
The fish pâté was a doddle. Just dump everything into the food processor for thirty seconds and then scoop into the bowl before chilling. I made some pains façon baucaire, little rolls with holes in the middle, the night before. We had them with the fish and some cornichons. And we still had plenty left for lunch the next day.
You can see I managed to get inside the blender for this shot, which is certainly adventurous if not particularly artistic. For this shot I actually stood on a ladder at the other end of the room, and used a super-zoom to get in this close.
You can see our elegant bowl here, and the pâté in all its tousled, farmhouse-authentic glory. It takes a lot of effort to look this natural. I make no apologies for the sandwich with the gherkin teeth. That was all Helen’s fault.
