Do you like to take pictures...

I do take photos of beautifully presented dish and keep files of them. I use them as ideas when I prepare dinner for my friends and even just for my family. So whenever we visit a restaurant I always bring with me my camera and my husband knows already what's next when all the dishes have been served.

Hi Dear Marguicha! I love cooking! I try various kinds of cooking with the available resources I have at my disposal in my Kitchen. Though my wife keeps her Kitchen updated every time, I am unable to locate many spices many a times as I am not a regular cook ! I like to cook when I feel that I should do so and I cook at least once in a month!my favorite dishes are non vegetarian Indian curries! I use my own spices and make the dish very tasty! I have got my wife and grown up son as my admirers who appreciate and like to consume the food prepared by me. Some times I prepare Biryani also! When I boast about my cooking to my sister, she simply denies the fact that I can cook! She never has seen me cooking when we used to stay together! To show that I can cook, I take the pictures of my dishes with my digital camera and transfer it to my Lap Top and I carry my Lap Top along with me whenever I am visiting her, to show her the dishes what I have prepared. I garnish my dishes and present in an attractive manner in nice looking dishes! My nephews who are now grown up are also very friendly with me and they also are interested to see the pictures and have seen many pictures so far and they are eagerly waiting to taste my dishes! Thus the pictures I take of my dishes serve as a sort of certificates for me to let others know that I can cook! LOL ! Thanks for the discussion!I liked participating in it!

I generally don't take pictures of food, although one time when I was in either Cambodia or Thailand, I went to a night market and they had trays of different bugs and my brother insisted on taking pictures of that. YUCK! Usually when I order at a restaurant, I don't ask any questions except maybe that it not be overly spicy. Thanks for sharing!

Hi. marguicha. I don't take pictures of any foods that I may eat. I do however, love eating any foods that I see that looks very yummy though. This dish that you have taken a picture of looks very yummy! This is my kind of food. I love zucchini and salad too. I can see that you have a complete enjoyment of taking pictures. You are a great picture taker!

i like to take pictures ,when i make any new recipe. 2,3 times i have taken pictures in my camera mobile and once i have send one recipe and its pic ,to one website and they have published it in their recipe. i like cakes and cookies more and so i have taken photos of my cookies and send to one website.but as i dont have camera mobile or camera now,i am not taking photos of my new inventions in food. but any day,if i take camera,i like to take more photos of my cooking recipes. once my husband has taken photos of restaurent recipes .and came good. i also like to take restaurent recipes pics.but,as i dont have camera now,i am feeling bad for it. i dont ask waiter about all ingredients of recipe,but ask for spicy food,as my indians are fond of spicy food. i will see menu,as it as main ingredients.

You will only find me taking picture of a meal when I am the one who prepared it. But at the same time I only would take that picture if I am by myself when i prepared it and I want to show someone in the future how it looks. But otherwise from that I wouldn't have anytime taking pictures of it because I would have been busy eating it all off. Oh my just yummy.

I will look over the menu a little while to see what I really want to eat but I don't usually take pictures. I do like to eat certain things and then go home and try to re-create them sometimes.

I went to a senior's week luncheon the other day. The food was simple but utterly delicious. There was a dish there that I did not recognise. I thought at first it was a variation of a potato salad but I could not be sure. The texture was unusual, like mashed potato with a little oil. There were other things in it but the flavours were very mild. I thought for a minute there was some sesame in there. We were being served by school students at the local bowls club so there was no-one to ask for the recipe. DANG!

i will first study the menu,when i go to any restaurent. if i like all the ingredients only,i will order the menu i want. generally as i am indian,i like to take any spicy food. so i prefer and ask for spicy food when bearer comes. i will ask for spicyness they make and i will ask them to make more spicy,if they add less spicyness. i will not ask hotel people ,for whole recipe . i will see in just in menu book only. in restaurent i will not take any photos ,everytime i go. once my husband had taken one photo for me and the food i am eating(without telling me),and in that photo,as my husband had taken closeup photo of my eating food,recipes are too clearly and big,and afterwards,when my mother has seen it,she teased me,as if i am eating too big meal. so when eating,i dont prefer to take photos of me and the food i am eating. in my house,when i make any new recipe,i like to take photos of recipes sometimes. 3,4 times i have taken photos of variety cakes,biscuits and one of my indian biryani recipe which i made in house.i have decorated well in a plate and taken photos of them and stored photos of them in my computer. i will be eager to show them to any person,who comes my home. pls tell about the salad recipe u have eaten in restaurent.

hi there, wow... you really have passion with cooking. I'd love to learn new recipes and sometimes ask about the dish I had. Like you, I love to take pictures and sometimes I blog about it.

i like to take pictures. But I don't have the habit of taking pictures of the dishes which I am making. But this discussion helped to do the same in future. From you, I got the idea of taking pictures of my new dishes. I use this time to congratulate you not because of your interest in photography but for your sharing mentality. It is a number one quality. We can see this quality only in few people. Wish you all the best.

hi, i love to take pictures especially when i am in a beautiful places,or if i have something new in my looks.i always wanted to do this so that i have memories that i can see and watch when i am alone and of course i have pictures to upload it to my facebook...

Looks so yummy friend, hubby and friends say i am a good cook too, only indian dishes and sweets, salty stuff, but never took pictures, good idea, will ask my son to take one,, Thanks for sharing Happy posting, cheers. Namastey. Kalyani

Hi there, I always like to take photos of the food i prepare for special occasions. I am not a great cook but i like to keep the memories of the food i prepared and in which occasion i cooked it. I would like to share this "spiced vegetable Rice" i made when i dated my partner and i cooked it in his house. Cheers!

I am not much of a cook and I must admit when I do cook my dishes don't look like they look in the restaurants so I have never thought they are good enough to take photos of...it would be nice to be able to do lovely looking dishes.

No, I come here and read discussions like this one and learn how to make some awesome dishes! That photo makes me so glad I'm growing everything I see and recognize on that plate because it all looks so GOOD! I doubt I could make anything as tasty as I'm sure that was, though. I'll give it a shot. I might get close! I have eggplants, zuccini, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, etc etc etc growing inside right now. They're all very tiny and won't be transplanted outside until the weather warms up a bit more. I'm more anxious after reading your discussion here than I was before... MUCH more anxious. LOL Do you mind if I copy this photo of yours so I can look at it once my veggies are ready for harvest so I can attempt to make a salad of my own like this (complete with eggplant and zuccini)? That salad looks so beautiful, I can't imagine it not tasting great. It looks like the eggplant and zucchini were grilled, am I right or were they fried in a grilling pan?

I might ask for the ingredients for it, but they might not know exactly how to make them though. It is up to you to do the home work, and search for the right recipe. Even though I went to those ethnic restaurants, they might not tell you the truth how to make those cuisines. So, it is up to you to dig it out.

Yes I love to take pictures of dishes especially with beautiful presentations. Because I am hoping one day to be able to that kind of presentation in the food that I cooked.

i also like taking pictures but not so much in food. it's true that it's nice to discover how a good and delicious recipe is done. i also like to study how a good food is done. especially that eating is one thing i like most!

Sometimes, when I'm in the mood. I set the table, put decorations,decorate the food and take pictures. :)